• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    There’s a difference between “violent crime exists” and “violent crime is so prevalent that regular citizens need to carry around an implement designed to kill people quickly while they go about their daily lives.”

    Only if you haven’t yet experienced violent crime.

    I carry a weapon because of one violent encounter I experienced in 2009.

    I decided that I never want it to happen again, so I am content to carry a weapon for the 1/1000000 times that it happens.

    I’ve had hundreds of thousands of encounters with strangers and only one of them involved the stranger trying to seriously hurt me. That one was enough to change my view on the nature of reality.

    Crashes don’t have to be prevalent in one’s life in order to wear a seatbelt.