RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
November 7, 2016 at 2:59 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2016 at 3:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Here are some better ones, for your consideration.
The amount of burglaries where the occupant is home? A fraction of overall burglaries.
The amount of burglars who employ firearms in the commission of their crime, a fraction of all burglars.
The amount of burglars shot by people "defending their homes with guns", a fraction of the number of people shot by those very same people "defending their homes with guns".
The situation the gun nut dreads, not actually likely to occur. If it does occur, he's not -actually- likely to need a gun to defend himself. If he -does- use a gun, he's much more likely to shoot his wife, or his friend, or his children, or the neighbor, or the meterman. -These- are the reasons he doesn't need a gun in his home for self defense, why he shouldn't think of firearms this way, not because he couldn't reach them if they were safely stored...but because he could do that, and the consequences will, likely, be terrible...and not at all what he's imagining. Evemn if he manages, like most don't, to actually shoot a "bad guy"...he'll have that on his head for the rest of his life. So, rather than allow him the easy out of that mistaken objection..why not levy those he just can't get around?
Defensiveness to what, you nutball? I don;t have any firearms in my home for self defense, and don;t plan to ever use one for self defense. I think it's a terrible idea. Somebody busts into my house, imma call the cops and give him what he wants. They can shoot the fucker, if somebody wants to shoot the fucker. I'm not interested.
The amount of burglaries where the occupant is home? A fraction of overall burglaries.
The amount of burglars who employ firearms in the commission of their crime, a fraction of all burglars.
The amount of burglars shot by people "defending their homes with guns", a fraction of the number of people shot by those very same people "defending their homes with guns".
The situation the gun nut dreads, not actually likely to occur. If it does occur, he's not -actually- likely to need a gun to defend himself. If he -does- use a gun, he's much more likely to shoot his wife, or his friend, or his children, or the neighbor, or the meterman. -These- are the reasons he doesn't need a gun in his home for self defense, why he shouldn't think of firearms this way, not because he couldn't reach them if they were safely stored...but because he could do that, and the consequences will, likely, be terrible...and not at all what he's imagining. Evemn if he manages, like most don't, to actually shoot a "bad guy"...he'll have that on his head for the rest of his life. So, rather than allow him the easy out of that mistaken objection..why not levy those he just can't get around?
Defensiveness to what, you nutball? I don;t have any firearms in my home for self defense, and don;t plan to ever use one for self defense. I think it's a terrible idea. Somebody busts into my house, imma call the cops and give him what he wants. They can shoot the fucker, if somebody wants to shoot the fucker. I'm not interested.
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