Every gun in circulation has an even smaller probability to not be used in an argument, but to forestall the argument. Your chances of survival go up dramatically if you shoot first.
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Every gun in your possession has a very small probability to turn you from good guy to bad guy. Assessments of what's just are subjective. Every good guy gun also has a not-so-small probability to fall into the hands of a bad guy. Most guns are bearer instruments.
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Every gun in the possession of a good guy also has a very small probability to fall into the hands of a good kid that can't handle guns. Toddlers even. Small probabilities add up.
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Every gun in circulation has a small probability to turn a good guy meets good guy situation into a potentially bad guy meets potentially bad guy situation. A small fraction of good guy vs good guy encounters end up with one good guy dead, and one bad guy walking away. Too many.
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Most cops are good guys. A tiny fraction is not. Most citizens are good, law-abiding citizens. Most gun owners are law-abiding citizens. The assessment whether the other side is a good guy or a bad guy with a gun takes fractions of a second, using very unreliable visual cues.
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When I was living in the US, I had local drivers licenses, but in every traffic stop situation I would show my German drivers license first, to signal two things: 1. I learned how to drive, 2. I'm unarmed. The reaction to that was always palpable.
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Replying to @oliverbeige @ecoinomia
Did you verbally communicate the correlation of German=Non Gun or was it always an implied context?
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Implied. This was typically before I had said a word. Cop, hand on holster: "Can I see your drivers license, sir?" Me: *hands over German drivers licence* Cop *takes hand off holster, stands at ease*: "Thank you sir, do you also have a local drivers license?"
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Replying to @oliverbeige @ecoinomia
Honestly fascinated that prompts such a response. US native myself, but I would have assumed supplying a foreign ID and not local initially would at first glance have raised suspicion, not relaxed it.
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Replying to @FluidFluxation
I assume this very much depends on where the foreign ID is from.
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I assumed there is a risk of aggregation on not complying initially with the most relevant to scenario forms. Glad to see this has not been your experience.
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