No, if you read it correctly, I am saying that a mugger or rapist would choose a gun over a knife to commit crimes!
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No, if you read it correctly, I am saying that a mugger or rapist would choose a gun over a knife to commit crimes!
Would they be as apt to try to rob or rape someone who was armed or potentially armed?
First, in most places, they do choose guns, as guns are better weapons, and thus more useful when committing harms. There's an old saying 'Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.' It's true.
Second, while guns are less available than before the disarming of the English, they are still used to commit crimes there by criminals that are competent enough to get them, unlike the street scum who can only manage knives. There are also crimes committed in the US with knives, so even where guns totally saturate the market, there are criminals of such low intelligence that they cannot manage getting guns.
Third, soon enough, as 3D printing more deeply penetrates the market, it will be unnecessary to buy guns. People have already printed them, and the means of doing so are freely available.
Fourth, criminals don't obey laws. Laws against having guns, for example. Laws against guns only prevent people that obey laws from having guns, and people that obey laws don't commit crimes. They are the victims of crimes however, and in the UK, they are defenseless victims.
Lastly, you are recommending people bring nothing, not even knives, to the gunfights they face on the crime ridden streets of neoliberal police states. That is about the silliest thing I have ever heard. Good luck with that!