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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
It’s hard to trust a man when you know he has a gun.
It’s harder when anyone can have one anywhere.
If I lived somewhere like that, not a chance would I be the only one walking around unarmed.
It’s a veritable positive void coefficient.
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Yeah, it's like a feedback loop. As much as I am against most people being permitted to carry a firearm in public, I have to admit that if I lived somewhere where it was common, I'd probably feel safer if I was packing as well. The thought gives the chills as well, because I have had bad days. I would like to think I wouldn't be the kind of person use a gun on someone or myself, but how do you really know. I imagine there are a lot of people who thought, hey, I will keep a gun for self-defense purposes and never actually use it, only to have a mental breakdown one day and submit to a compulsive thought.
I don't understand why someone people are so resistant to applying modern sensibilities to paperwork that was written in a time where the culture and times were completely different than they are now. All this stuff should be looked at as a work in progress and not a final framework for how we should live forever.
I know there are slippery slope arguments about having such a lax framework that rights could be too easily taken away, so there should be some robustness in the constitution, but it shouldn't be allowed to dictate bad policy either. Surely there are ways democratic institutions can withstand some flexibility.