Police: Hug Triggers Officer's Gun, Kills Woman

[CreekDog]

154. Jeez, if everybody owns a gun, even people who do things safely --will we be any safer?

no we will be less safe.

this is the argument i've been making all the time.

gun accidents, gun carrying and responding to violence in society (a society which is safer than in years past) by becoming increasingly armed is making some people feel safer, putting pressure on those of us who choose not to carry arms to in fact, arm ourselves --and all for what?

the myth that for most of us, being armed every moment makes us safer --for most of us it does not.

people will disagree with me, but my argument is pretty simple.

there is a moment you imagine where being armed makes you safer, and perhaps it does, in that hypothetical moment.

but by being armed all the time, and by being in a society where everyone else is reacting by arming themselves, that for that hypothetical moment where you might be saver, you are less safe the rest of the time.

YMMV