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Originally posted by spaceman73
BV,
If you feel the need to have a gun to defend yourself, well I think it's because there's a political and social situation which created the fear of being agressed or attacked. And that it's this situation that should be adress. The solution lay there more than in everyone getting a firearm.
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You're damn right there's a social situation which creates the fear of being agressed or attacked -- and unfortunately, it's because I have XX chromosomes instead of XY. There are always going to be sick fuckers out there who think the presence of a hahahaha upon my body gives them license to want, take, have -- against my will or not.
It's different for women, in a way that men can't understand -- every time I walk out of my house, I am leaving myself vulnerable to the possibility that I will be raped, murdered, whatever. That doesn't mean that I'm a militant, that I think that all men are rapist scum...but unfortunately, there ARE men who rape and kill. You hear about it all the time -- open up any paper, turn on any news channel.
You can't even feel safe in your own home. I've been the victim of sexual violence, and it was in my childhood home.
Knowing what I know, having seen what I have seen...I would rather have a gun and NOT need it. I would rather have the means to protect myself and my family rather than wish later on that I had been able to defend myself. I'm not going to lie and say that I could defend myself empty-handed -- I'm strong, I lift weights and work out, but I am never going to have the muscle mass of a man, and I'm never going to have the skills to defend myself against someone who tops my height by a foot or more. I might be able to cause some damage -- he'd have to get skin grafts to repair the gouges in his cheeks, and the police could just look for a guy walking hunched over because I tried to rip his balls off -- but I like the way a gun, and my determination to use it properly, evens up the odds.
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