The Real Gun Guys

What Planet is this Guy From?

In the comments on his blog Cliff Lyon has this to say in response to a comment about why the commenter needs his sidearm:

I’m sure his premise is that we should have the right to defend ourselves (with guns).

Certainly that seems reasonable. But I would ask at what cost.

Do we all accept that individuals should have the right to decide when and if their life is in danger and who the danger is?

Do we want to demand the right to kill someone who is merely trying to steal our money?

Do we want to live in a world where our justification for arming everyone is based upon the assumption that one needs self-protection?

Aren’t we supposed to insist that America is a pretty safe place where the chances of dying from criminal attack are almost zero?

If the proliferation of hand-guns is a deterrent to would-be criminal, wouldn’t the banning of hand-guns reduce violent crime?

How else would he have someone decide if their life was in danger? Are we supposed to hold a committee meeting or postpone the conflict until an authority on lethal force has had a chance to review the assault? The idea is preposterous. Who else, but the person being assaulted, would know better whether their life was in danger. Can someone afford to wait until the crooks intentions are clear before defending themselves? We always hear the advice, “Give them what they want!” spouted off, but what if what they want is to kill you and rape your wife and daughter. There was a news story I read not long ago where a man did just as he had been told. He gave the crooks his money when they demanded it, and they shot him several times in the side as they turned to go. Trying to guess the intentions of a crook is the height of stupidity. Only an idiot would do so before attempting to defend themselves. And no Cliff, America is not a “safe place where the chances of dying from a criminal attack are almost zero.” Whoever told you this is lying. If a law were passed tomorrow banning all sidearms in public possession, and assuming everyone obeyed the law and turned their’s in, it would do nothing to reduce violent crime. You’re assumption is that criminals would obey the law and turn theirs in as well. As with what happened in England, nothing could be further from the truth. All it would do is embolden the criminals because they would be the only ones with guns, their victims would no longer be able to stop them. You see, you forgot criminals don’t obey the law. That’s why their called criminals.

Some peoples kids…

UPDATE: Seems like he just can’t get enough. He continues his attack, along with a picture I guess he thinks typifies the average gun owner, here. What a buffoon! I could posit that all hoplophobes such as him are girly men, like the picture below, but that wouldn’t be correct.

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