Hand Gun ownership linked to Rocket attacks on US homes & business

Conversation yesterday about the use of firearms for self defense.

I pointed to the three recent incidents.

1--> 11 year old girl who shot a man who was stabbing her mother (ending the attack by the man)

2--> The business owner who shot a man who had beheaded one person and was in the process of attempting a second beheading.

3--> Victorian Police who shot an killed the guy who attacked them in the car park of the police station.


My observation was that being armed in all those situation clearly saved the lives of innocent people.

In two cases non police acted to save other civilians.

Everyone agreed that the outcomes where good ones and where glad that the person who initiated the violence was stopped before they did all the damage that they had set out to do (ie kill one or more innocent people)


HERE is where things got SILLY:

I said, if you can see the value of having a firearm for self defense in these situations, what is your reason for objecting to allowing people to have firearms at home or in the work place for just this sort of event?

Two people then proceeded to say the following:

well if the bad guys bring knives and you have a hand gun,
the next time the bad guys will bring hand guns
 so you will need a rifle,
and the next time the bad guys will bring rifles
 so you will need a machine gun,
and the next time the bad guys will bring machine guns
 so you will need a rocket launcher.........
Being armed will just result in an "arms race" between civilians and criminals

I politely asked what if any evidence they might have for this interesting "escalation" theory.

ANSWER: AMERICA

In their day to day lives these guys are not Sub 70 IQ people.
We are talking lawyer, engineer & school teacher, so we can safely say they are at or above average IQ.

RESPONSE: Is that why we have seen heavy machine gun fire and rocket attacks on businesses and homes in the USA? I was wondering how it had got to that..........

JUST another reminder of the lack of evidence based thought that is holding up the "guns are bad you should not have them" position.