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Originally Posted by willravel
You said to protect your family from a threat, no matter what the odds are of being effected by it. It is possible that within the next week there will be volcano in your own back yard. The odds aren't good (roughly a 1:15,000,000,000 chance), but it's certianally possible. You act as if the odds don't matter, I prove that they do.
What steps are you taking to protect your family from cell phone cancer? What steps are you taking to prevent your kids from being brainwashed by MTV? What step are you taking to prevent your wife from being victimized by diseases such as the flesh eating bacteria?
You are being selectively protective, and it shows that there is alterior motive behind your wanting to own a gun. You can't use your family as an excuse if you don't protect them from other possible dangers.
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Good points.
There are some parents that become the "over protective" parents. I had one aunt growing up telling my cousin in the 80's when walking about San Francisco to not touch anything as he may contract something like AIDS (this was before it was shown to not be contracted in those manners.) At 30+ she's still over protective of him.
Does she want firearms in the house? Yes, she does because she grew up in the Philippines where the guards stationed at the house were armed. Here in the US she cannot afford an armed guard.
I know other families that are over protective of their kids in many manners, but do not subscribe to protection via guns.
While I would like to own a gun in NYC, I also know that it could be bad to own one here in a densly populated area where a stray bullet could reach a neighbor's apartment and kill someone innocently sleeping next door.
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