# Folks, gun owners do not have to wear yellow stars in public.

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 17, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-gun-owners-do-not-have-to-wear-yellow-stars-in-public/658602 "2013-05-17T15:07:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-gun-owners-do-not-have-to-wear-yellow-stars-in-public/658602/158 "2013-05-18T14:49:59Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> The most important of which is, _don’t have one._ Having a gun makes you less safe.

It’s a logical fallacy to take any general statistics and blindly apply them to an individual. You cannot factually state that **my** carrying **my** gun makes **me** or anyone else less safe.

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