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Originally posted by BV
Yes but the point you are missing is that they still have as many homicides per capita if not more in some countries. You can be killed without a gun easy enough. ESPECIALLY if you don't have a firearm to protect yourself with.
Sometimes the police are not available and what if your wife was home alone while a rapist is breaking in the front door with a knife in his hand. Would you want your wife to sit their cornered in her bedroom with a pair of scisors or a nice safe snub nose revolver?
Pretty much a no brainer.
Peace!
BV
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The problem as I see it is that many people who have no business buying guns for home protection do so anyway. If you are not 100% sure that, faced with a life or death situation, that you could and would pull the trigger, you have no fucking business owning a gun.
Depending on which way the wife in the above scenario feels, it could go one of two ways:
1) She sits in the bedroom with the gun, the guy comes through the door and threatens her with the knife, and she raises the gun and blows him away with a nice clean shot to center mass.
2) She sits in the bedroom with the gun, the guy comes through the door and threatens her with the knife, and she waffles around about shooting him, stalling, etc, until he takes the fucking gun away and either rapes her and then shoots her with it, or rapes her and steals the gun.
My father is a gun smith, and I was raised around guns. I learned to shoot when I was six years old. I went hunting every year. I can field-dress squirrels and deer. And I know the damage that a bullet does to flesh -- I know damn well what will happen if I have to pull the trigger on a living being, and I know that if it comes down to it, life or death, my life or the life of someone I love, I will do it.
People who have no idea what they would do in a situation where they have a firearm in their hands and the choice of whether or not to shoot have ni fucking business owning one in the first place.