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This bloke is a good example of someone who needs more than a cell phone to defend himself:

Farmer credited for security in fuel theft | Stuff.co.nz

I agree with you but 20 years ago I would have also said that about gay blokes in the military and decriminalising marijuana. Both of those things have happened in the states and will flow through...

So ignoring the tube vs the world side of the argument and summarizing my position:

Do I think NZ will ever introduce concealed carry? No, not a chance in hell.
Do I think NZ should introduced...

So if I lived in a small unsafe area (which are normally lite on police) then I would also need to be armed?

Is it arrogant to expect to be able to defend myself?

If it's a safe place to live then front line police don't need to be armed...

Of course the police got called in to deal with him. Nobody else in the country is allowed to carry an effective means of defense and if they used it then it's likely that they would end up on the...

Firearms license holders are a select group with all the attributes you describe. Nobody is arguing that the non FAL general public should be allowed concealed carry.

And that select group of people have risks associated with them carring them. Personally I am not convinved that those risks outweigh any increased benefit.

So basically what you are saying is that while she might face risks they are not that bad and she doesn't need a gun. Given that people she works with were on a hit list of a bloke who actually went...

That applies to everyone. Farmers who live in poor rural areas. People who live in poor urban areas. Security guards that go out to alarms late at night, social workers.

Everyone who faces a...

A firearms license.

Thats not true. My wife is a social worker in a rural area so her job involves going out to the middle of nowhere (often with no cellphone reception) visiting people who come from the poorer section...

The thread isn't sensible. They are armed, every patrol car has a Bushmaster in the back (without fashionable carbon fiber stock) so you are asking for something they already have.

If they had a...