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Old 10-16-2006, 07:54 AM   #153
MaggieL
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
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Originally Posted by bluecuracao
Carrying a gun lawfully is not a guarantee that you will not be a victim, and it concerns me that some seem to think that it is.
That's a straw man. Nobody said it was a guarantee.

But I claim you're vastly better off armed than disarmed. And the record (see Gun Facts) backs that up, even though so many of the cases where it does work never even make it to the record.
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