Guns Dont Make You Safer?

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TheRealMafoo said:
So let me get this right... if guns don't make you safer, you're saying that we can take all the guns away from cops, and they can do there job equally effective with no additional risk to there safety?

Cops is really different than civilians, cops are the public force, they are trained and its their job to protect us, they have to have power(guns) to do that.

The goverment has to have power to prevent the law from being broken, thats why they(in this case police force and military) can use guns to do so.

Now, I dont see a reason to have guns being a civilian in a non violent society, I think that if you live in a place where police cant stop delinquency and many people have guns, who you arent sure if they are mentally stable, then I see a reason to get one to protect yourself. So I guess it depends on the country you live in.

When people feel insecure of their authorities to a point when they have to protect their rights themselves and return to an animal-like society,then you can tell you have a problem with the goverment and public forces.

But, getting more simple, I prefer to walk on a street where I know people dont have guns because they arent suposed to wear them, and if someone has one its because he is breaking the law and should be arrested, rather than a street where most people have a gun and even if some of them are normal and responsible.

Easy access to guns makes crazy people kill a lot more than if they didnt have them,  people that should not be permited to have guns can get them easily making cities more dangerous.