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Originally Posted by MakingItPay
If you are trained in the safe use of gun and home defense techniques, your odds of shooting a family member by accident are greatly reduced. You might accidentally run over your own kids in your car too. But not owning a gun is a choice I think you should have the right. I just hate when people give up their rights freely, and since they don't use it, they want it taken from me.
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I completely disagree.
When are you woken up in the middle of the night by an intruder, it's dark, your confused, you are incoherent because you just woke up, adrenaline is flowing, and you are in a tactical situation in which you have no information - you don't know if it's six guys with screw drivers, three guys with baseball bats, or two guys with AR15s. You can't turn on the light because it will give you away AND destroy your night vision. Then factor in a dog that is between you and the intruders, your wife that just woke up and has no idea she's just walked into the line of firing, PLUS a 12 year old kid who is generally clueless in the middle of the afternoon no less at 3am with shots going off.
Look at the guy who shot his own kid a few weeks ago. He thought someone was breaking in, turns out it was his son. His burning desire to protect himself just killed his son.
I don't live in fear. The two doors leading out are set so when they close they cannot be opened from the outside without a key, and we have an alarm system with a battery system.