Again, 'Murrica. How Many More

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I've never really bought the notion I-need-a-gun-to-protect-myself-and-my-family.

If you're a safety conscious gun person, your guns are going to be unloaded and/or (hopefully) locked away, so they aren't going to do you the tiniest bit of good when someone kicks open your door and starts shooting.

For a firearm to have any value at all when it comes to protection, it needs to be available.  If you're so nervous that you feel the need to carry your pistol around the house with you, you drastically increase the chance that you're going to hurt yourself or an innocent bystander, like your teen trying to sneak in after curfew, or your husband coming in quietly so as not to wake you.

Is the tiny likelihood of a home invasion worth the risk of keeping a loaded firearm within easy reach?

Boru

The Nuts will say "yes."

Which is why this kind of shit

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/...-self.html

Three-year-old stable after shooting self at South Side home

happens all the time.