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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I'm just waiting for the inevitable home defense job where a guy pulls out his rifle, to shoot a burgler, lets him have it and the rounds travel out of his house and kill a couple of his neighbors.
I've always said that the last thing that anyone needs for home defense is a gun.
First of all, for all you know that creeping sound coming up the stairs is your daughter getting home from the bar. Of course its dark, your heart rate is going 6 million beats per second so you fire a warning shot below her head.
Chances are in a house, the bad guy is going to see you before you see him. So you're probably going to die and give him another gun.
People forget that bullets don't just stop, they travel a good distance, especially rifle rounds, and once they leave your control, they could hit someone in the street, or your neighbors house. Or whatever.
Guns create a falls sense of bravery. Why the frack are you moving towards trouble. Oh yeah, because you have a gun.
You know what the best weapon in the world is?
A telephone. No really a phone next to your bed.
You know what the other best weapon is. Space. Moving away from the noise instead of towards it
Guns for home defense are silly.
Large capacity magazines are stupid.
If you want to allow people home defense weapons, then outlaw guns and allow people to buy pepper guns, or bean bag guns. Because at least if you make a mistake, its not lethal.
Heck even tasers are more fun because if you shoot an intruder they poop their pants. If you shoot your daughter by mistake because she's coming home from the bar, she'll probably learn her lesson and not be dead.
And do we really need gun ownership for target shooting hobbyists. Wouldn't it make sense to be able to go to a gun range and rent any exotic weapon that you want?
And for hunters. Is it that much of a challenge to use super optics and a 30 round clip.
Go hunting with an iron site and a single shot, I guarantee you that its a different experience.
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assuming I had to have a gun to defend myself, and in 30 odd years of living with, supervising or generally dealing with gangsters murderers and the like I've never needed a gun yet, but just on the off chance I retired to Honduras or downtown Juarez Mexico I would have a shotgun and then, if I heard someone creeping about, fire it into the floor.
Why anyone thinks its neccersary to kill someone to defend themselves escapes me, you just need to scare them off.