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One night at around 4am, I woke up because my Lab was growling, while looking down the stairs. It took about 3 seconds to register, but I jumped out of bed butt naked and ran over there. False alarm, but I was ready like Wesley Snipes.
If I had a gun, am I going to shoot and kill someone? Probably, but I don't ever want to. I realize there's a chance someone could kill me in the middle of the night, but it's not worth getting a gun just for that purpose. I've got just as much gun experience as anyone in this thread. I've fired everything from a Ruger 10/22(my favorite) to the M249 SAW. I've owned a Beretta 92f, a Mossberg 500 and I built my own AR15 piece by piece through the mail. So I'm not being a liberal hippie.
I've come to believe that once you get a gun, your chances of shooting someone have gone from 0 to 1000%. Especially if the pretense for getting gun was self-protection.
But if someone wants to go that way, then have fun dealing with the consequences of either getting it right, or even worse getting it wrong. A baseball bat is fine.
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