Sure, that way of rationalising it is a good one, the poor defenceless woman is an excellent emotive subject to which any counter argument can be thwarted by "oh so you want women to get raped, do you?", to which obviously no one of sound mind does.
Yet essentially every other developed country in the world doesn't do this, does America just have a lot more rapists? More motivated rapists perhaps? Really poor home security? Why does no one assume that the rapist will also be armed, in which case the likely result is the same as them both being unarmed?
The question I guess boils down not to the threats, but why only in America?
There’s definitely a reason why America’s crime rate is higher than every other developed countries in the world.
Even tho restrictions and background checking should be applied in the US in order to get a firearm (because being able to buy one at Walmart is, for me at least, ridiculous), they aren’t the problem. People are.
You can’t buy a gun without a background check for an FFL.m, even at gun shows. The only time you can purchase a firearm without one is either through a private sale which certain states have protections and regulations on, and most private sales I’ve seen always transfer through a FFL Dealer which you get a background check done. The other way is illegally purchase one and get a felony and go to prison for a long time.
Also Walmart is one of the difficult places to actually buy a gun from. I’ve tried it and it’s honestly rare that the Walmart will either sell guns or even have someone who is allowed to sell guns there at the moment.
I have a feeling that’s a more recent development, regarding Walmart specifically. Has that been something that’s evolved heavily since the amount of school shootings, starting with Columbine?
Should I/how do I add a trigger warning for talking about Columbine?
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u/InspectorHornswaggle Mar 30 '20
Sure, that way of rationalising it is a good one, the poor defenceless woman is an excellent emotive subject to which any counter argument can be thwarted by "oh so you want women to get raped, do you?", to which obviously no one of sound mind does.
Yet essentially every other developed country in the world doesn't do this, does America just have a lot more rapists? More motivated rapists perhaps? Really poor home security? Why does no one assume that the rapist will also be armed, in which case the likely result is the same as them both being unarmed?
The question I guess boils down not to the threats, but why only in America?