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Every human being has the potential for violence within. It takes acknowledgement of that potential to keep it in check. Many times I see anti-gun people being afraid of that potential for violence within themselves. They then project that fear onto the rest of the world.

Guns are inanimate objects, they have no will of themselves. If a gun is lying on a table and no human being moves it, it will still be lying on the table a 100 years from now. It takes the WILL of a human being to pick up and pull the trigger. NOw are guns more efficient than a bow and arrow, knife or club. The answer is yes it is, it is also more impersonal, in that you can be at a distance and still kill or wound. Guns have been a great equalizer between the physically weak and the strong.

Politically and socially guns give people the means to resist. To take guns away is another road block removed for those who would dominate.