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Originally Posted by Azure
Not saying its a good argument for gun carrying citizens, but I've said many times that you don't necessarily have to shoot someone to stop them from harming you. Simply pointing a gun at them would probably work for most unless they're batshat crazy.
The guy was randomly stabbing people. If he had a gun he would randomly shoot people. Its just a crazy situation to begin with. Adding another gun to to the mix would more than likely just have made it worse.
But it didn't, and because a concerned citizen was carrying that day in that store, they were able to stop the guy.
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You're 100% right that you don't even need to shoot anyone for a gun to be an effective deterent. I'm definitely all for gun ownership, I just want there to be as many controls in place as possible. Most western nations allow gun ownership, they just require intensive checks. Obviously at the end of the day you can't stop crazy people from doing crazy things. What you can do is try and limit the level of damage they could potentially inflict.