Guns, Part 3: How to not get shot

Is it unreasonable to avoid guns in this violent world?

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Get a gun... Learn karate or Judo... The world has gotten too dangerous... Shoot first and ask questions later.

 

Is that true? Has the world changed so much that it is impossible to follow the Bible’s counsel?

Should you get a gun? Part two

 

“In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The study estimated that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not possessing a gun.”

Should you get a gun?

 

As mass shootings have exploded, so have gun sales. Reasons given are twofold: One, people are buying them because they fear for their safety, and two, people hear the politicians saying ‘something must be done’ and fear gun purchases will become more difficult – or impossible – in the future, so better get a gun now.