BamaD
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ORIGINAL: eulero83 I answer in a single post, criminals want money and organized crime secure its source of money by controlling the territory, three things make it easier for them: individualism of people that think they can defend by their own and don't care about others, easy access to guns and a low rate of uniformed police officers patrolling the streets, than social degrade is fertile ground for the growing of new criminals, as you said that kind of distorted values exist only in that subcultures but there must be a reason if people end to accept that rules. Yet another misrepresentation, I know of know one who wants to take on the gangs without the police, but we want to be able to defend ourselves while we are waiting for them to show up. And the assertion that people who want to defend themselves don't care about others is ridiculous. But you are one of those who while you don't even realize it want us to hide in our homes while hearing our neighbor s being raped or murdered. sorry "not caring" was not the right words, I made a mistake, what I meant was warring only when crimes happen instead caring how to prevent them for the safety of everyone else even people you don't know, guns can't do that period, if you have to defend yourself so much it means that society failed as a whole. Who, besides you, says that gun owners don't support the fight against crime. We are MORE LIKELY to support the police than the general population. And no it does not mean society as a whole has failed it means the criminal has failed society.
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Government ranges from a necessary evil to an intolerable one. Thomas Paine People don't believe they can defend themselves because they have guns, they have guns because they believe they can defend themselves.
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