[csdvrx]

> EDIT: I see this is being downvoted

FTFY

> would anyone care to explain their reasoning?

I think a lot of people on HN are just anti gun/very left wing, which may taint their judgement while your example was nice about the initiation of violence being the issue.

[Aeolun]

Why would I have an issue with people using guns as an example?

It doesn’t work nearly as well with knives, which other people aren’t totally defenseless against (or cars, which are hard to pull out of your pocket in response to someone pointing theirs at you).

Ok, so maybe I couldn’t resist being a little bit snarky, but really, it was a good example.

[yellowapple]

> anti gun/very left wing

FYI: contrary to popular belief, these are mutually exclusive.

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary." -- Karl Marx

Anyone who advocates disarming the working class and leaving it entirely defenseless against capitalism and the state apparatus it inevitably begets is not leftist, and I'm personally rather tired of pretending otherwise. Gun control advocates might be "left" of the far-right, but that's a stunningly low bar.