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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Because the normal (i.e. sane) thing to do would be to install a sophisticated alarm system, move to a better neighbourhood, take self-defense courses, or a combination thereof.
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My karate instructor, an eight time world champion in full contact freestyle martial arts competition was asked about his feelings regarding guns and self defense:
"You know what karate move I deploy when a man pulls a gun on me? Surrender."
There are only a handful of men on the planet that can fight like him, but he's made it quite clear that technology has one-upped the human body in that aspect.
"I've got two sets of amazing weapons: My hands and my feet. Neither of them are faster than a bullet."
All the martial arts training, physical fitness, situational awareness, and hardcore discipline in the world can be destroyed by some street thug with a loaded Glock and a functioning index finger.
Guns are not dangerous because they kill people efficiently... they're dangerous because any idiot can use them regardless of education or physical ability. That old pearl: "God didn't make men equal... guns did."
There is very little honor in firearms. They are not poetic. I like them as a hobby, not as a way of life. Maybe that is the fundamental difference between myself and some of the other "gun nuts" on the board here. Hard to tell at times... but if I had my way? I'd melt 'em all down and make 'em into motorcycle parts and there would be no more war.
Human violence would find a way, people. It is in our nature to destroy ourselves. As an crusty old paratrooper mentor of mine said:
"Only the tools change."