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Old 04-09-2012, 11:55 AM  
raymor
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You know that the ultimate use of your gun will be to shoot a person, right?
No. 90%-95% of the time an attack will stop or be prevented by, the aggressor becoming aware that the intended victim or witness is armed. Studies have looked at "victims" who presented a pistol and the attacker fled. I don't know of any studies that covered the only times I've used my gun defensively, where I simply walked into a room and ordered the combatants to stop since combatants already knew I was armed. An example was my brother and sister-in-law, who get violent with each other, throwing knives at each other, etc. She picked up a chair over her head to throw it at him. I ordered her, in a drill sergeant voice, to put it down, with my hand on my hip. Glancing toward my hip she remembered there's probably a holster there, so she set the chair down and sat down. So far, I've had about three such cases - I've never drawn my pistol, but those around me can hear something in my voice when I tell them to back down.

I have drawn pepper spray a couple of times and used it once on a burglar, and twenty years ago when someone broke into the house to attack my brother I presented a shotgun. The attacker coming into the house and their accomplices quickly fled, no shots fired.

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Are you so afraid that you will be mugged or attacked? Are you so terrified where you live...

This is the thing that has us Canadians's so puzzled.
Puzzled, eh? I can solve that puzzle for you. Why are you so scared of fire that you spend a couple hundred dollars on smoke detectors? It's pretty much the same, except going to the range is also a fun hobby. You might have a fire, I might be attacked by some stray dogs, or see someone else being atacked. We both have some protection. Range time is just more fun than 9V batteries.
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