[dogscoff]

Just to put an alternative liberal point of view across...

Situational Issue: You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, a carnivorous rigellian Nurk-beast with a slavering mouth full of razor sharp teeth comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams "glurp norp gappagappgappgapp SchleeeE!*" and charges. You happen to know that the only thing capable of stopping a carnivorous rigellian Nurk-beast is a large lump of uranium 232.

Clear evidence, I think, for the general public to be allowed access to as much uranium 232 as they like.

Seriously, a random encounter with a frenzied knife-wielding killer is so unlikely as to be virtually negligible. I'd call it paranoid scaremongering.
But ignoring that for a minute, if you have a gun, why doesn't the maniac? Why didn't he just hide in a bush and kill you all from cover? Just because because he's a bloodthirsty ******* doesn't mean he's stupid enough to paint a target on his chest and give you a fighting chance. (Think "Washington sniper")

(*roughly translated: "Moist and fleshy meat-bags, I devour you in the name of SchleeeE the Digestor!")

[ August 29, 2003, 09:30: Message edited by: dogscoff ]