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My kids are fully grown adults with their own homes. Frankly, it's a wonder they survived to adulthood with all those guns in the house *sarcasm*. Seriously Min, you need a new pet peeve.

Though I may regret asking, I still have a morbid curiosity, so I'll ask; If we were together in a place where a criminal pulled out a gun and threatened violence, or worse, started shooting, would you be glad that I was there, and that I am highly trained, and have my sidearm with me; or do you think I shouldn't have a gun at all?

Shooting in a crowd is almost never the right answer. You may think you are "highly trained".... so were these cops.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/25/justice/ne...-shooting/

New York (CNN) -- On a busy Friday morning in Manhattan, nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds after police unleashed a hail of gunfire at a man wielding a .45 caliber pistol who had just killed a former co-worker.

Once you fire, you have no control of the bullet.

Or, As Count Suvorov noted sagely...."The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about." and he was writing in 1796 and talking about musket balls.

You win Min. Fuck everyone - let the criminal shoot up the place