I received an email challenging me to address the question: Does Owning A gun Make You Safer?
My name is Edgar Acosta and I am an editor at Opposing Views. I came across your site, liked what I read, and wanted to introduce us because we both write about gun issues.
Opposingviews.com is a debate site where experts go head-to-head on many topics. I think you might be interested in our debate "Does Owning A Gun Make You Safer?" which can be found at: http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/does-owning-a-gun-make-you-safer
The experts in our Gun Ownership section include such names as the NRA and Gun Owners of America.
I believe that you and your visitors will appreciate this debate and might want to weigh in with votes or comments. If you like our site, we would appreciate it if you would write a blog entry about us or give us a link to the debate at :
http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/does-owning-a-gun-make-you-safer
You can create a profile page giving readers information about you and links to your site. Or, if it is easier, I can do this for you. In the next couple of weeks we will be adding a blogosphere section to each debate in which we will directly feature outside blogs like yours.
Thanks for taking a minute to have a look at what we are doing. Let me know if you have any questions or recommendations for experts or debates.
Sincerely,
Edgar
This is obviously a transparent attempt to increase traffic to a new website, but the question is germane to Second Amendment issues, and so I will respond.
Does Owning A Gun Make You Safer?
No.
Simple ownership of a gun does NOT make you safer.
It might. But it probably would not.
Sure, School and Church and Shopping Mall shootings have demonstrated that Gun Free Zones are often considered to be nothing more than Target Rich Environments, but even though the possession of a gun by a supposed 'victim' has been demonstrated to stop the predation of Aggressors, the mere fact that YOU have a gun doesn't automatically make you "safer".
The possession of a gun only makes you a potential saviour of those self-identified Vicims who are actually shot.
The only way in which a gun can make you safe is if you are trained and ready to use it.
Even if you have a gun and are attacked, or are a member of a group which is attacked, there is no magical forced related to the ownership of a gun which will protect you.
A gun is only tool.
A gun can only "make you safer" if:
- you have it in your possession;
- you are trained to use it;
- you are prepared to use it;
- you actually DO use it, in a situation where you or others around you are threatened
- you have the basic skills to use it appropriately and skillfully
- you can identify the attacker, and are prepared to use your gun to nullify his attack
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