I would personally feel even less safe with a weapon, as gun ownership has a risk during maintenance as well as an automatic escalation of violence during a conflict. Not to mention "mental issues" are a target for discrimination and cognitive issues make deescalation more difficult. Basically if a cop yells an instruction at me and I can't understand, I don't respond in time, even if I'm doing my best I will get shot. Better to eliminate all apparent threat and hope to God no one thinks my cell phone or plush toy is a gun. At my intersection of discriminations due to physical and cognitive disabilities and gender, I do not feel like the Second Amendment protects me in any substantial way.
However, I do not support criminalizing weapons possession regardless of the source of the weapon, I think everyone should have the right to arm themselves as best they may, and I would likely feel different about personal possession of a deadly weapon if I lived in a community with people I trusted. Even though the risk is the same, there's a benefit, something reassuring to me, in knowing that someone else has a weapon to discourage violence towards me. Strength in numbers and all that.
what was that statistic, in one year, some time ago, they found out 40% of the police officers had been accused of domestic violence. Guns won't protect us; other people will. Maybe. If they feel like it. If i make myself into someone they care about.
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