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Originally Posted by Augi
I see this reasoning... but again, still don't find owning a gun as an excuse.
I am handy with an aluminum bat. Is keeping a bat behind my door illogical? I lived in a quiet neighborhood, until one year houses, cars, garages, everything was getting broken into, robbed, vandalized...
The fact that statistics say one is safe doesn't change the fact that outliers occur, and one bad thing leads to another.
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I get that there is still a 1 in a 1/600,000 statistic, but does being prepared to be that one if it means bringing a deadly weapon into your home (which statistics actually say is more likely to kill on accident) really worth it?
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Originally Posted by Augi
Wouldn't that just come back to convenience? You buy a gun and bullets... whale your safety is "secure." Granted it still depends on one's proficiency with the weapon and maintaining it.
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If I had a gun, I'd learn how to use it. I'm sure if you have a gun or guns, you're trained. That doesn't mean everyone is. A license doesn't always require training, I've found. In some places it requires virtually nothing.
As for convenience... shouldn't we be worried when it's convenient to get and have a gun? I was almost run off the street coming back from visiting my dad because some idiot thought I cut him off. His Chevy Silverado went from being transportation to being a weapon in an instant and he used it to attack an innocent person. If it wasn't for my Eibach coil springs and Tokico shocks, I may not had had the maneuverability to avoid him and could be dead. My point is it's not easy to get a drivers license. You actually do have to know how to drive. Still, this asshole or psycho managed to get a license despite the fact that he was prone to violent road rage. If this can happen with a seemingly normal person in a car, what's to stop a seemingly normal person with a 9mm in his glove compartment or a shotgun in his house? I can drive defensively and make sure my car is limber and I am a good driver to avoid assholes like I did tonight. How can I make myself bulletproof? And why do some people seem to think that also having a gun somehow makes one safe?