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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
The billionaire, jimmy buffet, suffered a home invasion a while back. I'm pretty sure that he lives in what would be considered a low crime area. Didn't seem to make a difference though.
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Translation: "There are 1/1,000,000 odds that this will happen, but it's common because I point out that one case."
It's the same old song and dance. "BUT WILL, you wouldn't want to be that one!" No of course not, but it's so unlikely that preparing for it makes no sense. It'd be like preparing for a plane to land on your house or for my dog to learn how to speak. There are some things that are so unlikely that it really makes no sense to prepare for them. "But the second amendment...!" Yes, the second amendment, as it's currently interpreted, says you can have a gun. That's great, own a gun and try to be responsible with it. That hardly means that everyone will be responsible with their gun. If you need proof of that, read the OP. "Gun bans don't work!" Well they sure don't work in Washington D.C., which is within throwing distance of West Virginia, which has some of the most lax gun laws in the US. Obviously they can't stop every car that crosses the state border to check for guns, so it was never going to work. Fortunately, gun crime in the UK is working really well. That's not to say I think a gun ban would work in the US, just that it can work in some places.
Is that all the arguments we usually have? I wanted to get them out of the way so we don't threadjack.