actually I would re write that as: Being an unarmed society in an armed world should be feared"
We were discussing neighborhood crime when my neighbor proudly recounted the night he ran a burglar out of his house with a gunshot. He showed me the bullet hole in his garage to prove it. I thought, "Well I guess you showed him!". Then I looked at the trajectory from the place he said he fired from to the bullet hole on the corner of his garage and realized that had his aim been off six inches to the right the bullet would have missed the garage and travelled across the alley and into my second floor apartment. We moved not long after that and my feeling toward guns have been tempered a bit.
I watched Michael Moores film Bowling for Columbine and think how lucky we are in Australia without a gun or 2 in every house.
Less Guns = Less shootings. It a simple equation.
Should really read - An Armed Society is a Society living in constant fear..
Sorry if my viewpoints on this subject changes the way that any of you may feel about me as a person - but we're all entitled to our opinions when living in free nations.
Not a single person on this planet would be free without em.
Mark Worthington said:and because they scare women, children and liberals.
Ian, is oppression a state that did not exist before firearms? I think not.
The US is a great place where something like 30,000 are killed each year with guns. A lot of those are probably accidents involving family members and you are the School shooting capital of the world. I watched Michael Moores film Bowling for Columbine and think how lucky we are in Australia without a gun or 2 in every house.