Reply #59: I never claimed that guns are a solution to all problems, that is your distortion. [View All]

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I have claimed that guns give the citizens a chance to defend themselves.

Humans as a species, have some members that are very aggressively violent. The only way that humans have found to counter those predators is to meet them with greater violence. So it is actually more violence as a solution to violence. But many members of our species are not able to deal out greater violence, so they become victims. The arms race is already there.

Guns are a plateau in the violence. It is very difficult to get to a greater level of violence without having access to genuine, expensive, military hardware. So citizens with guns are on an approximate level with the gangs with guns. As we are fond of saying, "Sam Colt made all men equal."

You said: Decades of exploitation by richer countries, a completely degraded infrastructure, an overpopulated, impoverished city and we solve all those problems with MORE GUNS. Please show where I have claimed that.