Suppose we lived in a world of guns -- I mean, a world where everyone had a gun. Ever notice how when two people are fighting, they sometimes look around for the biggest weapon they can find? If it is a stick, that's what they use. But, if they don't have a stick, or anything, they just use their fists. The availability of a weapon escalates the violence, and multiplies the harm and injury. Now, a gun is about as big of a weapon as anyone can have. So, when a fight breaks out, if everyone had a gun, there would be an inclination for the fight to escalate from just yelling and screaming and wrestling and fist fighting, all the way to . . . pulling a trigger and killing the other person.
Is that what we want?
No, no, no, I am not for gun control. But I do think it unwise for us all to have guns. I simply think it unwise for there to be many guns, at all, on our sidewalks. I just wish we would quit telling each other to go out and buy these weapons.
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