I feel very iffy about handguns. Even assuming nothing but the best intent from everyone who owns them, they are small enough that they will go unnoticed until they are pulled, at which point they will more often than not escalate a situation way beyond the point where it was and make people panic and do stupid stuff. I'm much more fine with rifles. You can tell when someone is carrying a rifle and act knowing that that you are in a situation with a gun involved.
This is what is so absurd about the anti-gun people to me here in the US. Banning handguns would save so many more lives than rifles or "assault weapons" because they're cheaper, easier to conceal, carry, and much easier to commit suicide or accidentally shoot someone with. In 99% of cases they're just as deadly if not more so. Only the most serious antis want to get rid of handguns though.
I feel very iffy about handguns. Even assuming nothing but the best intent from everyone who owns them, they are small enough that they will go unnoticed until they are pulled, at which point they will more often than not escalate a situation way beyond the point where it was and make people panic and do stupid stuff. I'm much more fine with rifles. You can tell when someone is carrying a rifle and act knowing that that you are in a situation with a gun involved.
This is what is so absurd about the anti-gun people to me here in the US. Banning handguns would save so many more lives than rifles or "assault weapons" because they're cheaper, easier to conceal, carry, and much easier to commit suicide or accidentally shoot someone with. In 99% of cases they're just as deadly if not more so. Only the most serious antis want to get rid of handguns though.