Meh, a human that allows himself to succumb to words and assault isn't very hardy to begin with. A gun and other weapon allows other individual to take a life. That's far greater and is nearly impossible to consent to.
And with those words, it's amply clear to me that you've never been near a war, or an abused child. Pretty safe place from which to "meh". Nobody said anything about succumb--the people who survive either situation are probably stronger than you can begin to understand from that armchair. The idea that having been exploited makes you weak or inferior is very twisted.
+1 for this.
The whole victim blaming fuck-you-buddy-i'm-ok the poor deserve what they get attitude makes hardcore freemarketeers seems slightly sociopathic to me.