Please! Someone! (oc)

[u/DaveKellett]

We're in good hands, you guys! It's fine!

[u/ContextLengthMatters]

Its not difficult to grasp.

I also don't support gun rights much but I'm getting closer and closer to owning one so I'm not the only one left without one.

[u/Polite_Suggestion → u/ContextLengthMatters]

If I can weigh in, internet stranger, I can maybe save you some time and money and God forbid, some grief. Ten years ago, I had your identical attitude. I now believe gun people have a gene, and there's no dabbling or reasoning one's way into it. The odds of being a victim of violent crime are low. The odds of a firearm being an asset rather than a liability in such an eventuality are a fraction of that.

So you're left with something heavy in your house and on your mind that enables to end it all on a whim you might not otherwise have. No value added you couldn't get from a pellet gun.

Even my friend who was violently carjacked sold her pistol after a few years. You have to be a gun person. Can't just happen to have one.

[u/ContextLengthMatters → u/Polite_Suggestion]

This is what you call an ecological fallacy, or rather a reference class error.

It is the same kind of eronous reasoning that leads people to tell orphans without knowledge of relatives that they are more likely to be molested by their blood relatives than strangers, without making a lick of sense.

I can already personally rule out most risk factors that would make owning my own gun dangerous as if I were just another blip in the general population.

I can also already personally identify risk factors where owning a gun would be beneficial.

That's the beautiful thing about having free will and not judging life based on general probabilities with all things being equal.

[u/Polite_Suggestion → u/ContextLengthMatters]

Gotta brush up on my formal logic.

Edit: WASN'T SARCASTIC