On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:08:03 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 06/10/2017 04:48 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

If nobody has guns, nobody has an advantage.

Somebody ALWAYS has an advantage. It's been that way since Og found a
sharp chunk of obsidian. The thing is, the weapon isn't the advantage;
it's the proclivity to use deadly force. A high percentage of people who
buy firearms for 'protection' didn't buy what they really need, the
willingness to kill. Even in battles between professional military units
a goodly number of the soldiers aren't aiming at anything in particular.

10 people are present in a room. One has a gun. The other 9 will die.

10 people are present in a room. One is bigger and stronger than the others. The other 9 have a damn good chance of subduing him. Even if he has a knife, they'll probably get it off him. But a gun lets you kill people at a distance, before they can defend themselves.

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A devout Muslim entered a black cab in London. He curtly asked the cabbie to turn off the radio because as decreed by his religious teaching, he must not listen to music because in the time of the prophet there was no music, especially Western music which is the music of the infidel.
The cab driver politely switched off the radio, stopped the cab and opened the door.
The Arab asked him, "What are you doing?"
The cabbie answered, "In the time of the prophet there were no taxis, so **** off and wait for a camel!!"