Election Year or Fear!

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So your anecdote is as valid/invalid as mine, that’s fair enough.

Regarding the gun thing, I’ll tell my friend Cathy that she is wrong in carrying, and shouldn’t feel safer, because, because some bloke from England says so

I generally don't use anecdotal "evidence", but was merely countering your claim with one of my own to demonstrate that perceptions can be quite different and don't necessarily equate to reality. But I guess if you want to believe what you choose to believe rather than look at reality thats fine.


Where exactly did I say that carrying gun didn't either make a person feel safe or actually be safer?

Oh thats right I didn't, seems your mixing me up with RA's response.

My personal view on it is that having travelled extensively in the US, I've not felt unsafe due to the number of guns in circulation and wouldn't necessarily feel that carrying a gun would make me feel safer. Whether in reality, carrying a gun actually improves a persons safety in the US is open to question, but then how one feels and what the reality is are often quite different.

I pointed out that your comparison with gun carrying in the US with knife carrying in the UK was false. That knife crime in the Uk was largely restricted to certain groups of people, whereas in the US anybody can and are victims of both gun crime and accidental shootings.

Sometimes you seem so stuck with your own (often unsupported beliefs) that you are unable to deal with reality.