> This is false. Handguns and other small arms, for example, cause a reduction in violence as they proliferate through society, due to the fact that the use of force is not the exclusive purview of the physically strong.
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> There's a reason police in most places carry guns, and it's not to shoot people; it's to keep people from punching the cops in the face.
By the threat of getting shot – a threat which the cops sometimes follow through on. Handguns “make the world a safer place” for those who have the handguns... By making it a less safe place for those who don't.
> Nuclear weapons have vastly (and I do mean vastly) reduced mass deaths in world wars since their invention.
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> There's a reason police in most places carry guns, and it's not to shoot people; it's to keep people from punching the cops in the face.
By the threat of getting shot – a threat which the cops sometimes follow through on. Handguns “make the world a safer place” for those who have the handguns... By making it a less safe place for those who don't.
> Nuclear weapons have vastly (and I do mean vastly) reduced mass deaths in world wars since their invention.
[Citation needed]