That is absolutely right. Safety is not the purpose of gun control the purpose is 'citizen control.'
Could you please explain to me what "tow the line" means?
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There are multiple (at least two, probably three) thousands of legal gun owners for every one gun murder last year. This places gun ownership squarely in the category of insurance - people don’t legally buy guns to commit illegal violence, they buy guns to avoid being a victim of illegal violence.Obviously, of course, if there were no guns there would be no gun violence - but let’s be serious about gun control - foreigners are making nuclear weapons and we can’t prevent it. And will our government actually eliminate guns? It cannot and it will not even try. It will try, and generally succeed, in taking guns from those most inclined to be law-abiding, of course - but even if it succeeded, the next frontier would be not gun violence but knife and spear and bludgeon violence.
Although there is certainly such a thing as marksmanship and gun handling skills, gun ownership democratizes violence potential very substantially. Because it is risky to bet your life that someone you took for a mark is not armed with a gun, and because even if you’re an expert shot his or her gun can still seriously wound you, or kill you just as dead as your gun can. Whereas it’s much more problematic to attempt to project an aura of being able to take care of yourself to a thug, and would be even if you knew that the thug didn’t have a gun. Which, as I say, is far, far from assured.