Agonist
how can I feel existential dread, it's my fear
I'm not trying to justify anyone who has been shot dead, in fact I agree there needs to be more regulations on certain types of guns. But at the same time, it's not just guns that are the problem.agonist, does your increasingly unlikely-sounding scenario to rationalise gun ownership justify the 8000+ Americans who are shot dead every year and the countless more who are injured or robbed/raped at gunpoint?
But even if it is an unlikely scenario, so isn't a man going into a school, and shooting a bunch of children. The point I'm trying to make (And perhaps I'm not doing a very good job with it, so I'll clarify my stance) is that these unlikely scenarios are occurring much more frequently than they used to, and criminals are becoming bolder with what they do, and therefore, citizens should be able to defend themselves against such criminals. I wouldn't want to shoot anyone, but I'd gladly kill someone to defend my family.
For example, I live in Maine, and almost every day on the news, you hear about some house, or a store that was subjugated to an armed robbery, or some sort of robbery. Several people I know have had their houses either broken into, or someone attempted to break into them, while someone was home.
I really hope you don't think I'm trying to make every criminal out to look like that. As I said above, I really would like nothing more than to go through life without killing anyone, but if such an occasion came up, I would gladly kill someone who was threatening the safety of loved ones in order to prevent them from being hurt.it seems a pretty heavy price to pay to protect myself from somebody who atm sounds like some sorta gun-toting Michael Myers