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Originally Posted by Jiggymike
Just because no one said it explicitly: going to meet a potentially dangerous and mentally unstable person to play guitar for your band was a terrible terrible decision. It doesn’t matter if your friend insisted, you push back harder and you do not budge, you don’t say “Welp guess I have to go, I’ll just bring a gun to be safe.” The risk/reward ratio here is unbelievably bad, you can find someone who plays guitar anywhere. The fact that you had time to deliberate over this and made a terrible decision makes it far more likely that you’d also make bad decisions with a gun in the heat of the moment.
Yeah, if person A wants you to meet known lunatic B then it's probably a good time to thoroughly evaluate your relationship with person A rather than acquiesce to their better judgement.
If there were a situation in which I thought there were a high enough chance that it could end with me needing to severely injure or kill someone that I would "need" a weapon, it's unlikely that I would tool up for the fight rather than find some new friends.
At the very least, I really don't want to kill someone but that might be because I wouldn't be able to detach my decisions from the action as oppose to pass it off as inevitable self-defence. Lunatic or not, I might just feel a little bit bad for getting into a position where I ended their life.
And, as a suggestion, maybe take the money spent on guns and put it into socialised healthcare. It's not as much fun as Tarantino style vigilante justice, but it could work out alright eventually.