Thread: Diane Sawyer's Sensationalist Crap

Originally Posted by Mr. E

This may just be my personal narcissism and a combination of a highly regimented physical training and martial arts experience, but I'd rather have to worry about disarming someone coming at me with a blunt or sharp weapon than someone coming at me with a gun. I know guns are used more for defense than for crime, but that isn't the case for me personally (I've been held up twice and never used a gun for defense).

Okay. But surely any person with half a brain recognizes that their personal experiences, circumstances, etc., are totally and utterly irrelevant when making any sort of statement about how the world, society, any larger group of people, etc., should or does work or behave. Right? So how does it make any sense to say that "things would be better" if there were no guns? Unless what you meant was "Things would be better for me personally." If you meant that things would be better in general, which was the impression I got, then that would only be true if everyone had your kung-fu skills.