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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
In your choice of whether to keep a gun to carry or at home for defense of family and self. You said that you don't feel the odds of being a crime victim are worth getting a gun. That is a choice, yet you can still be a victim of crime as you have experienced.
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Maybe I can make this more clear with an illustration. Let's say you play the lottery all your life and you finally hit the lotto. Do you think that makes it more or less likely to hit the lotto again? The answer is simply that your odds stay the same. If you have a 1/6,500,000 chance of winning and you win... your odds of winning again are still 1/6,500,000. My experience didn't mean that the odds changed, and I'm not the type to make an emotional decision about buying a gun. It absolutely has to be logical. Logically, I'm not likely to be shot again. Just like logically, I'm not likely to be hit by lightning or get flesh eating bacteria. Just as I don't own a gun for protection, I don't have a lighting rod and I don't wear gloves and a gas mask.
Does this make my stance more clear? I hope?