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You are anti-gun, there are several small kids in your home, in the middle of the night five or six robbers burst into your home.
You call 911 but it will be 15 minutes until the police arrive.
Now what do you think of "only the police and army should have guns"?
Why do you (and others) assume that if someone doesn't own a gun, they're anti-gun? Has it ever dawned on you that some people aren't comfortable having guns in their homes when they have children in the house?
It's a personal call....a family decision. Do your thing and let others do theirs.
Even if 5 or 6 robbers burst into your home, having a gun is no guarantee of anything. Especially because with "several small children" (not to mention curious children) in a home, most folks with common sense have their firearms locked away....not under the pillow.
The **** are you gonna rob someone with if you don't have a weapon?
Anyway I think my criminal law professor who is a 30-year veteran of the police force has the best policy on this sort of scenario. If the crooks stay in the first floor, he won't go after them because taking a man's life weighs heavily on most people and it's not worth it. But if they so much as dare to walk up the stairs to the second floor (where he, his wife and his kids sleep) he won't hesitate to drop them like flies.
I don't know how your state statutes read , but just the fact that someone is in your home and takes something makes it robbery....robber doesn't have to say a word to the victim.
I think very few people are against guns. I think that's more of the imaginary liberal caricature that you all enjoy so much. Practically, if you want to own a gun to protect your family in your home more power to you. You have every right to protect your family.
The problem comes that most people who want guns want them for the wrong reasons. if your sitting here counting the minutes until you can shoot an invader to meet some psychological hero complex related need you have-- you shouldn't have a gun. I see way to many wanna-be George Zimmerman's posting their imagined heroics and basking in the aftermath. If you consider having to shoot and kill someone anything but tragic, you're a poor candidate for a gun.
If you want to carry your gun to the supermarket because of all of the danger in the produce section, again, that's ok. When you want everyone to know your packing, and get off on the fact that you can kill anyone you decide to at any minute, that's not ok.
The problem isn't the guns. The problem is the common gun-toting idiot.
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I have no issues with a gun in the home for self-defense. However, there is no reason to carry your weapon on your hip at WalMart.
I don't know how your state statutes read , but just the fact that someone is in your home and takes something makes it robbery....robber doesn't have to say a word to the victim.
I believe in MD robbery is actively taking something from someone. For example, someone coming up to me and showing a weapon or punching me and taking my phone. Your example would be burglary. Hell, if the crook slipped in quietly and nabbed my laptop then this thread is pointless because I'd still be sleeping like a baby!
Why do you (and others) assume that if someone doesn't own a gun, they're anti-gun? Has it ever dawned on you that some people aren't comfortable having guns in their homes when they have children in the house?
It's a personal call....a family decision. Do your thing and let others do theirs.
Even if 5 or 6 robbers burst into your home, having a gun is no guarantee of anything. Especially because with "several small children" (not to mention curious children) in a home, most folks with common sense have their firearms locked away....not under the pillow.
Ours (rifles and shotguns--no hand guns) are locked in the gun cabinet unloaded for the same reasons. Like I said earlier, I trust the dog to protect us more than I count on being able to successfully use a weapon in the house...
if your sitting here counting the minutes until you can shoot an invader to meet some psychological hero complex related need you have
The problem is the common gun-toting idiot.
I frequently see liberals who can't articulate any reasons for taking away people's right to own and carry guns, frantically inventing imaginary "people" like those in the vaporings above, and then bashing them as though they actually existed.
Apparently they hope someone will actually believe such "people" actually exist, and so can frighten them into believing ordinary people can't handle what the Founding Father said they could handle better than government.
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