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re: Ambush leaves 2 Vegas officers and Wal-Mart shopper dead; suspects also dead[W:74]
And that means living in a society where you are in an arms race with your fellow country men/women? Sorry, but not having weapons does not make someone a sheep and having guns does make them "a farmer" because there is always someone with more or bigger guns.
Guns do not necessarily make someone safer than without a gun. And again, I am purely talking about the Dutch situation, not the one in the US. The rules that work in the Netherlands go out of the window in the US, not because people are very different but the situation is totally different. Any criminal knows that he will have to come armed to break into someone's house and willing to use it at the first sign of danger. In the Netherlands criminals are "rewarded" for not using violence because the difference between using violence and not using violence is massive in the Netherlands. Also, the risk of the owner of the house being armed himself and posing a danger to the criminal is almost zero, there is little or no need for the criminal to use or even come with a gun when robbing a house.
You are comparing the American reality with the Dutch reality and that is not possible, we cannot be compared when it comes to guns IMHO. Both are different, not better than one another and not worse than one another, just different.
You think that guns give you the opportunity to live free, I do not see it like that. I see my way as living free. Not worrying about the wolf because the risk for being hurt by wolves is not that great.
some want to live as sheep worrying only about the farmer
some want to live free and will accept the risk of having to deal with a wolf. But the fact remains, sheep in pens can never escape the farmer. Those in the field can escape the wolf
And that means living in a society where you are in an arms race with your fellow country men/women? Sorry, but not having weapons does not make someone a sheep and having guns does make them "a farmer" because there is always someone with more or bigger guns.
Guns do not necessarily make someone safer than without a gun. And again, I am purely talking about the Dutch situation, not the one in the US. The rules that work in the Netherlands go out of the window in the US, not because people are very different but the situation is totally different. Any criminal knows that he will have to come armed to break into someone's house and willing to use it at the first sign of danger. In the Netherlands criminals are "rewarded" for not using violence because the difference between using violence and not using violence is massive in the Netherlands. Also, the risk of the owner of the house being armed himself and posing a danger to the criminal is almost zero, there is little or no need for the criminal to use or even come with a gun when robbing a house.
You are comparing the American reality with the Dutch reality and that is not possible, we cannot be compared when it comes to guns IMHO. Both are different, not better than one another and not worse than one another, just different.
You think that guns give you the opportunity to live free, I do not see it like that. I see my way as living free. Not worrying about the wolf because the risk for being hurt by wolves is not that great.