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Originally Posted by Crompsin
A scoped bolt action rifle is many times more dangerous than a handgun.
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I'm sorry, that was my mistake actually. Seriously. What this does to me is demonstrates the point; murder is so far out of my head that I don't even think of it as a valid application for a firearm. My thoughts are hunting/sporting, home defence, personal defence. A scoped .30-06 is great for one of these activities, and arguably pretty lousy for the other two.
Any gun is dangerous. A little .22 handgun can kill a man just as sure as a big badass Barrett rifle firing .50 BMG can. All the same, some are better suited for different applications. I don't use a claw hammer to knock dents out of sheet metal, and I don't use a ball-peen to nail two by fours together.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
To those that look at the statistics and odds of anything violent ever happening to them as being so miniscule so as to not bother being prepared for it to happen, so accepting that if it ever should, just lay down and die, I have to ask you....how much do you value your life?
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That's not really a valid argument. For one, nobody said anything about 'lay down and die.' In the unlikely event that an intruder breaks into my home or a stranger mugs me when I'm out on the town
and in the even more unlikely event that my attacker is satisfied with nothing less than the end of my life, I'll fight back with everything I have. However, feeling that I need to live in fear of this unlikely circumstance is, to me, a bit absurd. That's my personal opinion and it's very clear to me that you feel quite differently on the matter.
I don't let the fear of lightning stop me from going outside, even when it's raining. The fear of being struck by a runaway driver doesn't stop me from crossing the street. I face death on an everyday basis, as do we all. Preparing for one scenario simply because it's 'scarier' and with no regard to the actual probability of that scenario coming to pass doesn't make sense to me. And feeling the need to purchase and keep multiple firearms to safeguard against that unlikely scenario is so alien to me that I don't even know what to make of it. This is my opinion as a Canadian and I suspect it's an opinion shared by a great many of my countrymen. I will not attack your belief in your right to keep and bear arms. That's for you guys as a nation to decide and I don't pretend to know what's best for 300 million people better than they do. I just thought it might be insightful for some of you if I shared my observations as an outsider. And that's really all there is here.