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Originally Posted by theking
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.
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The odds are that you will slip and fall and die in the tub is hundreds of thousands of times greater than being shot to death by a robber, yet everyone is going out and buying firearms and no one is buying tub stickers that prevent them from slipping and falling in the tub.
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Originally Posted by theking
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.
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You are one of the few people I would trust with a firearm. You know when to pull and when not to pull, as opposed to some jackass who thinks they are a badass because they have a firearm. Putting your life on the line for $100 in cash is just not worth it.
My buddy who just got a handgun on the other hand has no idea. He told me the other day if he is ever present in an active shooter incident he is going to take action. He has had his handgun all of two weeks and obviously in his eyes he knows what needs to be done.
My other buddy has thirty handguns in his house. He wants his wife to be able to protect herself. She is all of 90 lbs soaking wet - I can't imagine her trying to fire a handgun at an intruder. They have two kids too, and one of these firearms are properly secured. This is a disaster waiting to happen.