LogFAQs > #961908270

zebatov posted...

Id rather face a gun than a knife.

No, you wouldn't.

An attacker has a knife, you run away; an attacker has a gun, have fun being shot in the back.

DocDelicious posted...

I think other countries need to stop downplaying the long-term safety that gun ownership ensures in America. The general populace being armed means the government's power over us has a limitation.

That may have been true once upon a time when guns where single shot muzzle loaded, but hasn't been true for decades, and certainly not in our life times. Your semi-automatic rifle is not going to protect you from a tank, or a reaper drone or a nuclear weapon; if anything it will only help to identify you as an enemy combatant.