The key to freedom is the ability to be able to defend yourself. And if you don’t have the tools to do that then you are at the mercy of whoever wants to put you away. And the tools for that are guns.

Found via Fark, and interestingly the comments started out making rather a good point (instead of just lots of snark).

DrRatchet: hubiestubert: Any tool can become a weapon if you hold it right, and by focusing only on weapons, means that you don’t focus on WHY people are turning to crime, which is the more important question, and the larger issue.

Which is why controlling or eliminating weapons fails as a way of reducing crime (I’m looking at you, England.)

Very much so. Gun control is a false debate when you talk about crime prevention. It is a distraction from talking about what actually concernsboth sides of the debate, and that is crime prevention. Preventing crime is something that few can argue against, at least with any honesty, save perhaps those who are invested in the prison industry.

So, it would be nice to see folks veer from the whole gun control debate and instead focus on what they all share, and that is how to reduce crime. Rather than investing so much time and effort to talk about the style and manner which crimes are committed, but to get to the root causes.

Less worry about the symptoms, than the actual disease.