Also from what I've heard, being armed is actually more dangerous than being unarmed a lot of the time. If someone threatens you with a knife or a gun while you're unarmed, you might get mugged or beaten up. If both of you have a gun, it's a lot more likely that someone's gonna panic and one of you is not making it out alive. The mere act of having a weapon already serves to escalate the situation.
Now of course, in the specific scenario where the attacker is looking to hate crime you from the get-go, having a gun is obviously preferable, but generally speaking a gun does not make you safer in the streets.
It may be impossible to prove without some ethically questionable experiments, but the evidence is still pretty strong that merely owning a gun greatly increases your chance of being killed.
I've never really understood the self-defence argument for every day living, if someone comes at you with a gun and intends to shoot you, I suspect they'd shoot you, whether or not you have a gun. The chance of you being aware of that threat beforehand, having the time and opportunity to get your own weapon, ready it for use, and then effectively use it to ward off that threat are gonna be really low, and basically all the time will be worse odds than just running away. Add to that the pretty high chance of being shot with your own gun in the first place, and I very much question that it improves your odds of surviving any given year.
Also from what I've heard, being armed is actually more dangerous than being unarmed a lot of the time. If someone threatens you with a knife or a gun while you're unarmed, you might get mugged or beaten up. If both of you have a gun, it's a lot more likely that someone's gonna panic and one of you is not making it out alive. The mere act of having a weapon already serves to escalate the situation.
Now of course, in the specific scenario where the attacker is looking to hate crime you from the get-go, having a gun is obviously preferable, but generally speaking a gun does not make you safer in the streets.
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It may be impossible to prove without some ethically questionable experiments, but the evidence is still pretty strong that merely owning a gun greatly increases your chance of being killed.
I've never really understood the self-defence argument for every day living, if someone comes at you with a gun and intends to shoot you, I suspect they'd shoot you, whether or not you have a gun. The chance of you being aware of that threat beforehand, having the time and opportunity to get your own weapon, ready it for use, and then effectively use it to ward off that threat are gonna be really low, and basically all the time will be worse odds than just running away. Add to that the pretty high chance of being shot with your own gun in the first place, and I very much question that it improves your odds of surviving any given year.
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