(October 23, 2020 at 8:23 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: What's left of my point is that there is a range of skill levels among people who have access to guns. Endfamilyfire.org addresses the issue of children who kill. They are sometimes playing cowboys and indians. (Dak Prescott vs. the great Mahatma?) Adults with guns hope to be "the good guy with the gun." (Like the guys that took down the looney who shot up the White House with an AK. (Except they didn't use guns, they landed on the fool, HARD)) People who want to be the GGWAG can go their entire life without hitting that "heroic" moment. But they will constantly be in danger of being the fool who let his/her gun do serious damage and/or be taken.
BINGO! It is absolutely true that many gun owners will go through their entire life never committing suicide or murdering others. But this is a tunnel vison view of the larger sample. You are a gun owner I would trust because you don't have tunnel vision.
Stranger on stranger gun violence is not the bulk of injury or death. And just like a shark sneaks up on a seal, someone who wants to rob or kill you, is most likely going to have the drop on you before you can reach your firearm. I often bring up the fact that my best friend from Oklahoma had an uncle who owned multiple firearms and still got murdered by a tenant with a crowbar. None of his guns saved him.
Most cops will tell you the better chance of survival when confronted with a firearm, is to comply, or run. It is certainly true that sometimes you have no choice. But most of the time the former is more likely to lead to survival.
And there are plenty of examples, like you said, where unarmed people take down an armed person. Point being, guns should never be viewed as a 100% cure in every situation.
