Originally Posted by
Droog
Um, ok. For your sake, I hope that you're right!
And I hope for your sake an armed criminal never makes it into your home some night.
Originally Posted by
Droog
Even though I don't own guns....I would like to present the following rule of thumb: until you can DEMONSTRATE that you can pull that trigger WITHOUT HESITATION while looking someone in the eye DURING A HIGH-PRESSURE SITUATION (and splatter their brains all over your wife's new window treatments), DO NOT ASSUME that the gun will be of any use to you in a real confrontation.
Dude, since you don't own guns, your "rules of thumb" on gun ownership are like one of my passengers trying to give me advice on how to handle an emergency. Yeah, some people may freeze in a crisis, and some won't, some will hit what they aim at, some will miss...but having a gun in hand when needed is infinitely superior to the gun still sitting under glass in a store (or worse yet, legislated into confiscation).
Originally Posted by
Droog
I believe that it is dishonest to use the 2nd amendment as justification for gun ownership
It's dishonest to expect our Constitutional rights to be protected? GMAB!
Originally Posted by
Droog
(just admit that you think that they're fun and/or you feel protected by them)
A day at the range can be a lot of fun...sorry you don't understand. But I have never felt protected BY a gun, I protect myself and my family WITH my training and WITH the firearms I own.
Originally Posted by
Droog
And the second point is that for MANY people, guns are a FALSE sense of security
OK, maybe like for some people driving a big car is a false sense of security and/or power. Like some people FEEL more powerful/invulnerable when they drink.
Droog (and a few others), no doubt you've already made up your mind(s) in the matter. Fine. I ain't gonna change your mind ad you ain't gonna change mine. Slice's excerpt from "On Killing" is right on the money and I have no doubt HIFLYR will defend his and his own if necessary...just as I will, no question about it. It really is that simple.
Don't like guns? Fine, don't buy one. Bottom line is gun control has never been proven to make a society safer, and I'd say there is really plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Originally Posted by
Boomer
A gun is just a tool, like a hammer, or a chainsaw, or an alligator.- Homer Simpson
or Droog
Sorry, couldn't resist.