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Originally Posted by Cybersprings
Ok. I'll bite. According to your post, it is not the police or good guys with a gun that stop bad guys with a gun (cliche and all). So, what is it that you think stops bad guys with a gun? the threat of timeout? offering them a safe space? Unarmed people being sweet to them. I really am curious what stops them in your mind.
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According to your post, you misinterpreted my post. Perhaps on purpose.
I don't care what stops bad guys with guns. I care what keeps bad guys from getting guns in the first place. We don't need to stop a bad guy with a gun, if we don't have bad guys with guns.
Humans will never EVER allow that to happen. Ever. We value our weapons too much. Good guys and bad guys both. We are a violent species, we kill our own, sometimes for fun, sometimes for profit, sometimes out of anger, rage, grief - and only very rarely for self-defense.
But if we can make it HARDER for bad guys to have guns, and give bad guys more consequences when they're caught with guns, then just maybe it might convince ONE bad guy to - not use their gun. It'd be a step in the right direction.