Stefan Viljoen wrote:

> Where it is the norm, in the country with the highest murder rate on earth,
> that most house invasions include torture by branding, rape, evisceration,
> vaginal impalement of females, murder of babies and children, etc. - there
> is simply NO way that citizens CANNOT be armed.
> 
> I do believe an armed society is a safe society.

In my humble opinion, a society where you *have* to be armed just to 
stay alive is, by definition, not safe.

> The basic fact remains that an unarmed man may be attacked with more
> confidence than an armed man - and no government, ever, should have the
> power to deny its citizens the most basic human right - to self defense and
> survival. 

That's right. Because you can't defend yourself without weapons. Oh, wait...

(In the country where I am right now, even the *police* are usually 
unarmed. And it's fairly rare for them to get killed...)

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