One, turning it into a gun-fight just isn’t worth it. The guys who mugged me certainly didn’t have guns. My laptop was insured, and my work was backed up. I moved on. I don’t think slaughtering some poor black kid and his friends would have made the situation easier. And what if the gun had turned on me in the struggle?

Two, if everyone typically walked down the street armed with a gun, you can bet those guys who mugged me would have had one. It’s like an arms race. As far as I’m concerned, the fewer guns there are in the world, the better. Which brings me to…

Three, it just isn’t practical for me to defend myself from all possible harm. If someone wants to assassinate me, for example, they could snipe me from a window or poison my Starbucks, no problem. I live in the heart of a city, and if I feel safe walking down the street by myself, it’s because the neighborhood is safe to a certain extent, not because I’m carrying superior firepower. If I’m not worried about being overpowered by people shouting slogans at me, it’s because my neighborhood rarely has people standing around with megaphones, not because I always carry a stick of dynamite in my back pocket that makes a much louder noise.

Anyway, just some thoughts that occur to me.

One, turning it into a gun-fight just isn’t worth it. The guys who mugged me certainly didn’t have guns. My laptop was insured, and my work was backed up. I moved on. I don’t think slaughtering some poor black kid and his friends would have made the situation easier. And what if the gun had turned on me in the struggle?

Two, if everyone typically walked down the street armed with a gun, you can bet those guys who mugged me would have had one. It’s like an arms race. As far as I’m concerned, the fewer guns there are in the world, the better. Which brings me to…

Three, it just isn’t practical for me to defend myself from all possible harm. If someone wants to assassinate me, for example, they could snipe me from a window or poison my Starbucks, no problem. I live in the heart of a city, and if I feel safe walking down the street by myself, it’s because the neighborhood is safe to a certain extent, not because I’m carrying superior firepower. If I’m not worried about being overpowered by people shouting slogans at me, it’s because my neighborhood rarely has people standing around with megaphones, not because I always carry a stick of dynamite in my back pocket that makes a much louder noise.

Anyway, just some thoughts that occur to me.

One, turning it into a gun-fight just isn’t worth it. The guys who mugged me certainly didn’t have guns. My laptop was insured, and my work was backed up. I moved on. I don’t think slaughtering some poor black kid and his friends would have made the situation easier. And what if the gun had turned on me in the struggle?

Two, if everyone typically walked down the street armed with a gun, you can bet those guys who mugged me would have had one. It’s like an arms race. As far as I’m concerned, the fewer guns there are in the world, the better. Which brings me to…

Three, it just isn’t practical for me to defend myself from all possible harm. If someone wants to assassinate me, for example, they could snipe me from a window or poison my Starbucks, no problem. I live in the heart of a city, and if I feel safe walking down the street by myself, it’s because the neighborhood is safe to a certain extent, not because I’m carrying superior firepower. If I’m not worried about being overpowered by people shouting slogans at me, it’s because my neighborhood rarely has people standing around with megaphones, not because I always carry a stick of dynamite in my back pocket that makes a much louder noise.

Anyway, just some thoughts that occur to me.

Please look at this page illustrating “how to write strong arguments.” What you did is called contradiction because you state an opposing case and provide no supporting evidence. It may be in the middle of the pyramid, but that’s only because so many types of arguments are poor.