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Originally Posted by Rochard
I find it strange that some people have this "burning desire" to protect their home with a firearm yet I am forty-seven and have never had the need to "protect my home". Nor have I ever been robbed.
A friend of mine just bought a handgun because he wants to protect himself. Really? There has been one home invasion in the town he lives in in the past five years, the homeowner was armed, and the only one who got shot was... the homeowner. With his own firearm. Why does he live in fear of being robbed?
The odds of him shooting his own wife or someone he knows is greater than him shooting a robber. Wouldn't it be better for him to get a dog and an alarm? (I have both really. And firearms.)
I have a fifteen year old kid, and my kid has lots of friends who sleep over. They stay up late, raid the kitchen at 2am; I can't be arming myself every time something goes bump in the night.
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There are more than 8,000 home invasions every day in the U.S. and this does not include the more than 6,000 break-ins and burglaries every day of the year. So your indvidual experience nor mine mean little in the scheme of things. I carry every place I go and I have been robbed before. A teenage kid robbed me at gunpoint with a semi automatic pistol which did not even have a clip in it. I was carrying at the time but decided I did not want to shoot a kid over the amount of money I had in my wallet. So I took my time providing what he wanted...all the while taking mental notes about him. I let him walk and turned the matter over to the police.