funnily enough that's one of the contributing factors to the increased likelihood of being shot. tons of people shoot their loved ones thinking they're intruders regardless i'm not here to do fantasy roleplay and what ifs. the numbers don't lie; self defense is a rare use of firearms whereas the presence of firearms increases the likelihood of innocent people being shot
There have been hundreds of cases where the very presence of a SRO prevented an attempted shooting by simple deterrence. There’s a reason most such events take place in explicitly gun free zones. And off the top of my head I can think of three shootings which were stopped by civilians with guns. There have been more but I don’t keep a catalog of these things.
perfect solution fallacy once again. you can’t have an all or nothing mindset bc its unrealistic. i could clap back and say what if these “ drugs” were legal, then we’d have an even bigger problem. but they aren’t, are they? if you’re unwilling to implement something that allows room for improvement just bc the success rate isn’t 100%, that’s strange.
sadly, not all republicans have guns for just those reasons. see: racially motivated mass shootings, white supremacist compounds, etc. not to mention the ones calling for lgbtq+ people to be “lined up against the wall and sh*t in the back of the head”… i sincerely hope the man who said that and the people who agree with him aren’t gun owners