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LOL rational choice.... right. And you claim that the nearly twenty thousand women assaulted every years with firearms by husbands and boy friends just doesn't happen right?
Just to make sure we are on the same page, you use statistics from sources like these right?
I didn't make any of the choices since that could be proof of premeditation if it ever happened. Let's just say we are prepared to protect ourselves. That is for the one who thinks they want to break into our home. They don't know it, but they really don't want to pick us for a robbery. Besides that, I keep all vauables in the safety deposit box. About anything in our home except us, you can have and I will let the insurance company and the sheriff handle it. That is, after I hand you over to them with your hands up.
How about an official statistic on home invasions -- police source please. I'm betting something in the range of the chance of being hit by lightning. Car fatalities actually happen with enough regularity in this country that one should take precautions.
I do guard against home invasions though: I have door locks and an efficient police force.
too bad the police force do not even have to show up at your home if you call 911. the scotus has already ruled the NO police department has any duty at all to protect any individual citizen.
so when that crook is there trying to kick in your door, and the police refuse to come to your aid.
what shall you do?
I will as soon as we stop arming nutcases like this previous example of a guy shooting his lawnmower? Does gun ownership make people nuts or do nuts gravitate to gun ownership?
maybe we should start outlawing people from being able to vote, read a newspaper or speak in public too.
hows that sound to you?
when you start limiting the Constitutional rights of the law abiding, when does it stop?
Actually I've been absolutely consistent in my advocacy of local control over gun laws. I have absolutely no interest in what the misguided citizens of Arizona do with their gun laws. They can authorize private gun nuts to carry RPGs into bars for all I care. In Washington DC we have local laws that fit our circumstances and we would like the courts to stop legislating from the bench. Since the early days of our country local jurisdiction have had local ordinances on carry guns -- even infamous Dodge City.
since the early days? you must mean after 1976. since before then it was completely legal for law abiding citizens living in washington dc to own pistols, rifles and shotguns.
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too bad the police force do not even have to show up at your home if you call 911. the scotus has already ruled the NO police department has any duty at all to protect any individual citizen.
so when that crook is there trying to kick in your door, and the police refuse to come to your aid.
what shall you do?
In my town we require the police to respond quickly to calls and they do. Those that prove inefficient we fire, so SCOTUS really has nothing to do with it. It's a condition of employement.
In 25+ year in Washington DC, I've never had someone try to kick my door in. As far as I can tell from reading the newspaper it happens to a handful of people a year. Hardly worth worrying about, much less buying a weapon that places my family at more risk.
I also have a big dog that will corner the bad guy until I can get it loaded.
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