Many people don’t seem to realize the benefit of
legalizing guns in Nigeria. They think of the
disadvantages alone, not the advantages. Why are
we narrow-mindedly opinionated about this issue?
1. Men go into a house to rape a defenseless girl.
Would they try that if they knew she’s armed with a
gun? Rapists want to rape and live, not to rape and
die.
2. Many aged parents still cry days and nights, while
their broken souls plead for vengeance. Their
innocent children were killed in Jos and elsewhere
while they were serving their fatherland.
3. In Nigeria, most criminals want to do bad things
to people and go scot-free. If they knew people had
guns as well, they would think twice.
4. I must be blunt, what gives most criminals the gut
to attack people is because people are defenseless.
If 20 assassins go to a man’s house, they’ll kill him.
But the man can kill up to 3 of them before he dies.
This is better than when the man is killed without
being able to kill anyone in return.
5. One-Chance, terrorists, herdsmen, militants,
money ritualists, armed robbers, thugs, bullies, etc.,
are able to go away unscathed in most cases
because their victims don’t have guns. To be frank,
those who attack you have power over you only
because they’re armed and you’re not.
6. If most members communities have guns in their
hands, do you think armed robbers would like to go
to their lion’s den to molest them?
7. Militants that terrorize communities would be
afraid to do so; unless they’re going on suicide
missions. The same is true of mad Jihadists. No mad
or rabid dog would deliberately run into a burning
fire.
8. Domestic violence would cease…. A corrupt cop
would cease pointing their gun to a poor and
helpless okada rider because of N100.
9. Lazy thugs that collect money they don’t work for
would think twice before they start cursing or
threatening their victims, ordering for money they
don’t work for.
10. It’s true, many people would die. But the
remaining people alive would sit right. They would
show respect for one another. Politeness would
prevail and crimes would be reduced to almost zero.
Isn’t there any sense in this?

Uyi writes for Abuja