Koios
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MAD and a gun fight are not even on the same level unless perhaps in a gang war, where your being shot might be avenged by a fellow gang member(s).
A gunfight is IAD (maybe), since one individual will be shot but their destruction is far from assured.
Ridiculous. You should have stuck with your original retort. This is getting more absurd with each post.
And if were likening gun ownership to MAD, let's go hog wild ...
1. We have it now; I shoot and kill you and I might destroy myself (20 years on death row and lethal injection). Our laws preventing misuse, make it mutually likely destruction.
2. Some kook president or general secretary with his/her finger on the button is what we feared most. And some kook killing school kids is very much the same: wants to kill others without regard for their own safety. And here's the rub: we never feared that until we had a PROLIFERATION OF NUKE WEAPONS!!! (noodle on that, within the context of the proliferation of hand guns in America; you might have an epiphany.)
The simple fact is, it worked.
- They do? Are you saying that every murder in this country is solved by the police, and that every murderer is, eventually, killed by lethal injection?
- Actually, what we feared most was what would happen if some crazy guy got his finger on the trigger and the other side couldn't shoot back.
1. Yes. Nope; reread it.
2. Indeed; albeit they (Ruskies) did, too. Kinda works both ways.
It (cold war) did help bring the USSR down financially; no argument. But obviously, for the 31,347 who died by gunfire in the US last year, penalties for misuse of firearms proved unsuccessful. So at best we can hope it mitigated the problem, but it is a far cry from "worked."