Guns urban vs urban?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Glatt is unfortunately (and ignorantly, alas, also) subscribing to the discredited theory of "the evil gun," that certain types of firearm are inherently more wicked than others. The ignorant and neurotic ravers against human self-defense use this as an entering wedge to help get the rest of us as helpless as they are. Anyone accepting this theory has been pwned like a big dog!

Disclosure time: in my callow youth, that was me.

This "theory of the evil gun" is exploded by the fact that the same compactness and concealability, and not least their lesser weight, that make pistols suited to committing felonies with, and with a maximum of discretion at least until the shooting starts, are the very same properties that facilitate active defense against committing pistol-armed felonies, by the fundamentally simple expedient of blowing holes in the felon. Which isn't remotely part of his plans for the day.

Crooks can't gag down being shot to death. If this is a universal prospect, they perforce stop being crooks, either under their own volition or because they are too dead to do anything other than cool down to ambient. Either outcome dramatically reduces crime and attendant wastage.

You can shoot a crook with a rifle, too. However, bearing a rifle around with you means you have to carry it in your hand which means you haven't got both hands on your work. A pistol, you simply wear. It's emergency equipment for a specific kind of emergency. Wearing it makes it available in even the most pressing and immediate kind of emergency.