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/^t/First, the awareness of posessing a gun can bring on its owner a lot of danger. It comes from the fact that when people are aware they carry a gun which can be used in a situation of life-threat as a kind of protection, their feeling of security increases and their actions become less careful. They tend to take unnecessary risks because they think if they have a gun they are able to cope with any danger. Such people provoke the danger which can easily overgrow them; in a life-threat situation they are not able to shot if their psyche does not let them for a large outburst of agression required for firing at someone.