Do you wear a cowboy hat when you’re practicing quick draws in front of the mirror?
No; do you wear a tin foil hat?
I guess we need to carefully spell out for those on the short end who can’t figure out what is bleedingly obvious to the rest of us.
Two reasons.
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I don’t generally initiate conflict, so by necessity I would be using a gun in a reactive defensive situation rather than a proactive offensive situation. This means that guns used against me are going to be already prepared for use and likely pressed into my kidneys, while guns used by me are going to have to be drawn, have the safety turned off, aimed etc… So unless you go around drawing your gun on everyone you meet on the off chance they are a mugger (and who knows maybe you do, all part of exercising your rights) you are going to be at a distinct disadvantage.
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I’d rather lose my wallet than take a chance at losing my life. Even if there is a 90% chance that I can pull out my gun in one swift motion, disengage the safety and land one right between the eyes while saying “looks like your lucks run out” in a flawless imitation of Clint Eastwood, in the time it takes him to react. The 10% chance that my aggressive actions engage the fight option of his fight of flight response, leaving me in a pool of my own blood, make it preferable to just hand over my wallet and wish him a pleasant evening.
Apparently your habit of taking potshots at paper targets also applies to your rhetorical skills. I hope in the event of a real gunfight you do better than you do in your battles here, or you’ll miss the shooter entirely in favor of blowing away some store mannequins.
And yet you concurred with Scumpup. Clearly you need some more practice.
This guy took ‘gun grabbing’ to a new level.
Stupid gun owner shot with her own gun. The trigger was pulled by her hunting dog, aptly named Trigger.
But does it mean more deaths overall or just more deaths by gun and fewer deaths by jumping off of buildings?
You have a cite for that or just your gut instinct?
You mean the foundational document for modern democracy? Is that the shit you mean?
See LA Riots. There is no proof that owning a gun increases overall risk. Sure it increases the risk of having an accident with a gun you own, it also increases the likelihood that you will be armed during a riot or robbery. It is this sort of one sided analysis that makes it hard to take your side seriously.
Or it could be the thing that saves your life or livelihood.
Yes, the same document that declared black slaves to be worth three fifths as much as free whites. It includes anachronisms and deserves respect but not reverence.
IOW, see something that scared you personally. That is not convincing.
It’s been shown to you many times. :rolleyes:
But probably not. As you know.
I don’t think muggers usually grapple their victims.
If the mugger is armed with anything short of a gun, you can draw your gun on them if you have taken a defense class or two.
If someone else is being mugged, you can help.
If rioters are burning down stores, you can defend your store with a gun.
You don’t have to be Tim Oliphant in Justified to benefit from gun ownership.
LA riots.
Guns put to good use by private citizens when they were abandoned by the police.
But guns are so ridiculously easy to get (they’re even free if you grab them from another victim) that muggers, yes, are generally armed or must be assumed to be.
And look like the aggressor to another self-styled “good guy”, and get yourself shot.
cite? I don’t see anything about armed students in the classrooms. everything I have read says that guns were banned in classrooms. Were people just carrying guns in classrooms anyway?
Why do you guys pick the one scenario where a gun is least likely to be useful and pretend that is the only reason to own a gun?
What if the guy wants to rape you?
What if they break into your home?
What if the are rioting and burning down stores?
Are you better off without a gun then too?
What if the “burglar” breaking into your home turns out to be your teenager trying to sneak back in late from a party? What is the likelihood that drunk Junior is going to speak up when you call out “Who goes there?”
What if a Graboid breaks into your rec room and you don’t have a Wall of Weapons? WHAT THEN, GUN GRABBERS???
What if someone rides in on an angry elephant, and you don’t have an elephant gun?
Then unless you’re an imbecile you identify the potential target first.
Burglars, rapists, and rioters are a bit more plausible than mad elephants or fictional creatures.
He’s probably going to overpower you, or at least get the jump on you, take your gun, and use it against you. And on somebody else later.
They’ll likely be armed, prepared for you, and be able to get off a fatal shot while you’re still looking for your own gun.
Call up the well-regulated militia (and don’t pretend you’re one of them, or well-regulated anyway). Or the police, who are far better armed and organized and trained than *you *are.
Look, nobody ever said there are never any circumstances where it could help you. Only that there are far more where it hurts you. It would serve you well to quit imagining what you’re being told and pay attention to it instead.
We keep getting news reports about imbeciles, you know. Oh, right, excuse me, “law abiding citizens” who were “defending their homes”.
Are burglars, rapists, and rioters really more plausible than kids coming back late from a party? Where the fuck do you live??
They’re blacker. That makes them scarier.
At least in these people’s own imaginations.