| FreeTalkLive said: I certainly don't want to take on a trained military. However, the folks in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq have been ok at repelling invading armies. NH has wild dogs, snakes, bears and moose. All are potentially very dangerous. Even though NH is the safest state, there also has some criminals that live here or visit. Additionally, guns are needed to protect the people of NH from both the ruling governments and foreign governments. If there were 1,000,000 gun related deaths in the US every year, it wouldn't change my position. Sure, the facts show that in the US, more guns usually means less crime. However, even if that weren't true, it would change that the right to self-defense is more important than utilitarianism. The government doesn't grant rights, rights are above the government. Cops have no duty to protect me. Only I have that duty. As they say, when seconds matter, cops are only minutes away.
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Like I said you only have black bears which almost never approach humans, moose which never attack unless purposfuly agitated and you have no highly posienous snakes what so ever so that argument doesn't work.
If there is ever an army powerful enough to invade American soil you can bet that a couple of guys with guns and no co-ordinated leadership won't stand much of a chance. Also if such a time ever did come the military would draft you into the army or have national guard militia outposts set up where they will arm civilians and give them regiments to follow. This isn't some movie, your not going to get together with your friends and take on a trained military.
Also what armies have Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan repelled? Are you talking about Afghanistan repelling the soviets when we gave them massive weapon caches and trained them?
Also you just made up that fact out of thin air. Yes New Hampshire is safe but that has nothing to do with guns I guarantee you. It has more to do with the geography, demographics and economics of the state and it inhabitants. If you want to use facts though its not going to paint a pretty picture for you. America's five most violent states - South Carolina, Tennessee, Nevada, Louisiana, and Florida -- have no laws to require a Brady criminal background check for every gun sale, no laws to combat illegal gun trafficking effectively, and no laws to restrict access to military-style assault weapons. As a result South Carolina has the highest violent crime rate in America; Tennessee has the fifth-highest rate of gun homicide; Nevada has America's fourth-highest gun death rate (including the fourth-highest rate of gun suicide); while Louisiana has the highest gun death rate, highest gun homicide rate, and highest accidental gun death rate in America.
The ten states with the highest gun death rates in America have some of the nation's weakest gun laws, including Louisiana, Alaska, Montana, Tennessee, Alabama, Nevada, Arkansas, Arizona, Mississippi, and West Virginia.
Admittedly overall rates are influenced by a number of factors, but the consequences of dangerous behavior are only magnified by easy access to guns by dangerous people. I could also bring you the statistics that shows how much safer States with stricter laws on gun control are but the above information should be more than enough.
Your argument about rights is foolish. If you want to live somewhere where your rights aren't impeded upon go set up a country in Antartica because a society can not function without certain rights being impeded. I want to walk around naked all day and I don't want to pay my taxes but guess what, I can't. What makes your rights any more important than mine? I think it is my right to live in a state where I don't have to worry that every single person is wearing a concealed weapon.
Also umm I'm not sure what the cops in your town are like but yes the cop does have a duty to protect you. Every country in Europe has pretty much banned guns for civilians. According to you these places should be overrun by criminals, rapist and murderers pointing guns in peoples faces and doing whatever they want. So why are European countries far safer than America then?
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