Michael Patterson

Why do you need a gun?

September 26, 2022

Civil Liberties

“But why do you NEED a gun?” This is a common objection to gun ownership that we hear all the time; there are many who just don’t see the point. They cannot wrap their minds around how it could be or why it would be important.  On the surface, a sensible person could be forgiven for accepting the idea that making guns hard or impossible to get will produce less violent crime. They could also be forgiven for believing the idea that if you have a room full of children who are throwing rocks at each other, the sensible thing to do is remove the rocks.  But this assumes society