So there are bunches of reasons for me to want everybody to have guns ? crime
goes down, and I would venture to place a wager that government would slowly
begin shrinking as well.And I can?t think of a reason for everybody not to
have guns. I don?t even care if convicted criminals have them, as long as the
rest of us do. Just as no criminals walk into a gun show to start a shooting
rampage, we can be confident that few, or no, criminals would go on shooting
rampages in offices, post offices, schools, or shopping malls.Of course, our
political left wing warns us ad infinitum that our society would deteriorate into
daily shootouts if everybody walked around carrying a gun. Not so. Think about
the current situation: We are allowed to drive cars and to carry baseball bats.
You can kill lots of people with either. Nobody ever does it. The 99% of us
who aren?t criminal kooks simply don?t go around hurting other people. Think
about all the people you work with, see at the grocery store, meet at church
and social occasions: How many of those people would you fear? Some of the
stronger ones among them already are able to kill you with their fists. How often
do they do that?

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