It depends on where you live here.
But for the most part- no- you aren't safer with a gun. At least not in the general, day to day sense.
The freedom to bear arms by the American Constitution is for the purpose of defying tyranny.
Tyranny? You mean the government? And how is a group of local militia going to defend themselves against the military of a government, hmm? No, that's what I originally thought, but after actually thinking about it, and hearing reasoning against that idea, I've changed my stance. It may have been true back when America wasn't as powerful of a nation. But now it's more for the protection of the citizens against criminals.
Except for Philando, who did nothing wrong and was practically murdered in front of his family.
He didn't tell the officer where the gun was, and was reaching for something in his pocket. There was marijuana found in the car.
Now, I've never been trained to be a police officer, nor have I been one, and I'm pretty sure you haven't either. But I'd be willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the officer, even if there was something better he could have done.
The first mistake Castile made was that he did not, when the officers walked up to his vehicle, tell the officers that he had a gun, tell them exactly where it was located, and then did not ask them if he could pull it out slowly so that it could be in their sight at all times. That one decision probably would have saved his life. But from what I'm reading online is that he waited until 40 seconds after the officers walked up to his car to tell them he had a gun on him. (That could be from a number of reasons, most
significant of which is the pot.)
His second (and ultimately fatal) mistake was that he reached into his pocket after telling the officer he had a gun, after not telling the officer where said gun is.
It's a tragedy, of course, that he died, but the officer is trained to react if the person he is talking to is potentially pulling out a gun, and hasn't announced his intentions.
That event alone made me reevaluate conservatives in this country- the fact that those very same people found no fault in the officer in court really crushed my soul, I couldn't believe it.
You all affirmed your prejudice on that one, and that is why I laugh at this godforsaken site trying to brand me as a 'racist'
Well, he did nothing right either
Next time, maybe he shoulda said "I have a gun" with his hands flat on the dash and wait for the officer's response
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Not false. You're small handful of examples don't hold any weight against the other 99% of society.In fact, it's plain science- people who need a gun the most are people who live in a rural area about an hour drive from any city. Those are hot spots for home invasions and a potentially 30 minute wait on police arriving.
So you're just going to ignore those who don't need a gun "the most"?
The police are the first wave of any tyrannical force.
They're also the second layer of defence against crime in a community. The first is (and should be) the individuals in that community.
Would you rather there be NO police?
The Founding Fathers were no fools, they were very realistic in how tyranny works, having made an entire country resisting it
Romans 8:31 TOL
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If a gun is for us, who can be against us?
See what happens when you take passages out of context?
Paul isn't talking about battles or wars, or life on earth. He's talking about our eternal salvation. If God is for us, who can be against us? No one can bring any charge against us, because God Himself has justified us.
It explains a line of reasoning with Jesus, let's look at it objectively:
Jesus told Peter to arm himself in the first place. This is because, in his human condition, Jesus did not want persecution- his prayer in the garden makes it obvious. And that is, by all reason, why he commanded Peter to carry a sword.
But then he tells him to drop the sword.
He tells Peter to put the sword back in it's sheath, not drop it on the ground. He was teaching his disciples that there is a time and a place for violence, and that that wasn't it.
There's really nothing in the New Testament that defends the idea of Christians openly brandishing weapons, let alone venerating them.
There is. You just aren't looking very hard.
