A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Weiser says:
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That's one of the most beneficial effects of legal CCW...it puts
criminals
at serious risk of death or serious bodily harm, and they know it, so
many
of them choose a different line of work as a result, which is why
violent
crime rates drop so drastically where CCW is legal.
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If I may suggest an analogy: Iran and North Korea should see to it that
they acquire a nuclear arsenal ASAP so as to "threaten" any nation
which might wish to impine on their sovereignty.

Indeed. That's exactly what they are doing.

But, it would be
foolish to stop there. Clearly we need nuclear proliferation, with ALL
nations developing adequate firepower to blow any intruder into another
world.

Of course! Why didn't we think of this before. Since arming every Tom,
Dick, and Harry will seriously reduce crime, according to the Weiser
Theory of Law Enforcement, it stands to reason that arming every nation
to the max will reduce the number of wars we have to worry about.

Scott, remind me one more time why we care if North Korea has nukes?

You engage in the fallacy of the excluded middle. There is a substantial
difference between an armed citizenry and nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons have no mind and no conscience, can be controlled by one
person, and once released, can kill millions in an instant.

An armed citizenry has millions of independent minds, both an individual and
a group conscience, are under individual control and one bullet can only
kill one person.

Your analogy fails.
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Scott Weiser

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