(February 10, 2022 at 10:41 am)Divinity Wrote: Oh, we're using gun lobby statistics?
How many people were abducted by aliens? Are we going to use those numbers too? Give me a fucking break.
Gun Ownership should be a privilege, not a right. Too many people are fucking irresponsible with their guns. Chances are, you'll never use them in self defense. And if you're ever in a situation that calls for it, you lack the training to deal with the situation anyway.
But don't worry! Nobody's actually going to implement gun control. If after 20 elementary school aged children were murdered, we did nothing, there's never going to be anything that changes anything with regards to your gun control. People will continue to be irresponsible dipshits, and we can only hope that Darwin works his magic.
Being in an extreme situation where a gun can save one's life or that of others, absent training and experience, is a wash. You may, 1) kill the perp (who, in most instances, as I said before, is there in your home to steal your stuff and is going to leave very quickly anyways), or 2) kill a family member (has happened with professional law-enforcement snipers who mistook their target), or 3), the perp may take the gun from you and kill you (around 20% of police officers who are killed in the line of duty die from their own sidearm), or 4) an innocent bystander may be hit or killed from your bullets and/or the debris from them.