Originally Posted by Rochard

This is what the vast majority of people fail to understand. They think "I have a firearm, I can defend myself". The fucker you are arguing with doesn't think he is James Bond, yet seems to believe he will be able to figure out if the person coming through the door is his son or an armed intruder.

We hear about people defending their homes and businesses every day, but we don't hear about the failures nearly as much. Case in point is what happened here in Sacramento a few weeks ago. Two men came into a business and pulled out handguns and attempted to rob the business owner. The business owner, out numbered two to one in the worst tactical position imaginable, pulled out his gun - and a gun fight too place. The only person injured was - you guessed it - the business owner who was shot in the face and lost an eye. What would have happened to the business owner if he was unarmed? Most likely he wouldn't have been hurt.

(The business owner, btw, had more fucking balls than all of us put together. He was shot in the face, lost his eye, and chased the gun men out of his shop and continued to fire at them as they fled. I honestly do not understand why this isn't front page news.)

Everyone thinks they are James Bond.