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Originally Posted by willravel
What I mean is protection isn't the actual reason that people own these guns. If it was about protection, then people would be preparing for equally likely or more likely dangers as well, which they don't. They're being selective and choosing a firearm specifically to be selective about, which strongly suggests another reason for owning the gun. Crompsin's reason, for example, is entertainment. I would imagine that he's not the only one that uses this.
There are other reasons, but trying to assign them to people would require more study. I couldn't really venture a guess as to why dk has so many guns without knowing him. I can tell you it's probably not about self defense, though.
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Wouldn't that just come back to convenience? You buy a gun and bullets... whala your safety is "secure." Granted it still depends on one's proficiency with the weapon and maintaining it.
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Originally Posted by ghoastgirl1
Very true. Although...if you shoot extremities sometimes you hit arteries and they bleed out. (Had to throw that in there). I remember that one lady who shot an intruder in the leg and stopped him from running away. Good call.
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The intruder should think of it as my way of being polite. My intention is not to extinguish the intruder's life, just make sure that a portion of his life is spent thinking about what he has done wrong. If he and I have the rotten luck and I hit a major artery... We'll it was an extremity shot, and the officers should note that.
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Originally Posted by Augi
The fact that statistics say one is safe doesn't change the fact that outliers occur. With people, you often see one bad thing leads to another. Why? Because people being nice does not get noticed
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Decided to reword that.