2nd Amendement Rights

[shinerbock]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Deterrence can be specific or general. I was not talking about community wide deterrence but, either way, a deterrent effect is a deterrent effect.

So what you're talking about really isn't deterrence unless you're arguing that people who are faced with gun wielding citizens will not attempt to offend in the future. You know that "deter/deterrence" has a lot of criminological and legal theory and meaning behind it so to say having a gun under your pillow/having guns in a classroom has a deterrent effect means something different than what you intended.

It was pretty clear what I was saying, considering I specified how I was using the concept of deterrence. I'm pretty sure you knew what I was saying as well.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

It was pretty clear what I was saying, considering I specified how I was using the concept of deterrence. I'm pretty sure you knew what I was saying as well.

*waving at you as we type past each other*

If I say I didn't know what the hell you meant or whether you knew what the hell you meant, that's what it is. It isn't up to you to change what deterrence means. So now that we agree that you meant "self-defense" instead of deterrence, OKAY, move along lookieloos...nothing to see here.