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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
What a poor collection of assumptions...
-they can't find their gun?
-they are too scared to use it?
LOL......okay, these things might be the case in a small percentage of cases.
Why does a gun make for a crappy defense tool?
What would work better if an armed intruder entered your home?.....a bat? an alarm system? a pot of scolding hot water? your womans' oversized purse?
You really think an intruder has the advantage when entering a strangers home? The unfamiliarity of the property makes it more risky for the intruder, especially if the home owner is present and armed.
2.5 million gun defense/year according to the stats.........and I have to wonder how many brandishings go unreported? It's not like a car jacker/robber will report a brandishing considering they were trying to commit a crime.
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Shouting out that you've called the police and they are on their way, that will clear out a burgler in seconds, burglers are generally not looking to kill any one they want money and they want to get away free, why so many americans get killed is because the shear proponderance of guns in every house makes it a kill or be killed situation for the burgler if he is disturbed down there, here they just run away.
I run a foster home, I take serious gang bangers into my house, all of them are criminals and have access to guns, none of them use them or take them out with them as they know full well they don't need them, I would have been shot dead doing my job in the US long ago, I've walked into crack shacks and grow ops looking for my kids but they know I am not armed so no one bothers me, in the US it would be assumed I had a gun and so shoot first sort it out later would be the rule.
To be quite frank even in the US you are probably safer being robbed without a gun than having one, if you don't have a gun you lose your wallet but chances are thats all.