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I have no problem with you keep a gun in your home to protect your family if you feel it necessary. It's a personal decision. It's certainly legal. It's none of my business whether you do or you don't.
Thank you! Finally someone talking with some sort of sense.
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I think what makes many liberals (and others) uncomfortable is the minority of people who seemingly can't wait for their home to get broken in to so they can shoot someone. Maybe they are over-represented here on CD, but if you're frothing at the mouth to kill someone, you're not a gun supporter-- you're mentally unbalanced.
I have yet to read anything of what is in bold. This is just a lie the left has pushed to support thier agenda. Can you provide anything of this?
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If a gun is truly just a tool with which you can defend yourself then treat it like one. But why the pride? Why the ideation? I have a lot of tools, I am not "proud" of any of them. I don't discuss them with others. If guns are your thing-- that's fine with me. But your rights do end at my child's right to be safe in his elementary school.
Did you ever think that people take pride in their guns because they are so lethal and yet they don't kill anyone? People are different, that's what makes this place so great. I have a lot of tools also, but I respect and yes, I take pride in my rifles, shotguns, and pistols. When friends come over, they get shown.
I fully agree, nobody should take a gun into a school, unless you are trained. What happened at Newtown, could not have been stopped, fact, the laws made it so he was unable to get a gun and had to finally kills his mother to get a gun.
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How we achieve that is open to debate... But I have to tell you-- Becoming orgasmic every time someone shoots an intruder isn't helping your cause...
Nobody is orgasmic (another leftist lie), but we who have guns get tired of hearing about all the bad stuff and NEVER anything about when a gun does good, yes, a life was taken, it would not have been taken if the robber would have not been a robber.....
If someone breaks into my house - either the alarm goes off or I hear the crash of the door or window - I will grab my gun. But my first objective will be to get myself and any family out of the house through the back door or one of the sliders. The last thing I want to have to do is to shoot someone and if I can avoid that then I will.
If someone breaks into my house - either the alarm goes off or I hear the crash of the door or window - I will grab my gun. But my first objective will be to get myself and any family out of the house through the back door or one of the sliders. The last thing I want to have to do is to shoot someone and if I can avoid that then I will.
I would think it's far more dangerous to evacuate an entire family with an intruder in the house rather than killing them. Plus, it avoids any misunderstanding for future would-be intruders who stake out neighborhoods to rob/rape/assault.
I'm sure you recognize that it's a vicious circle.
I'm sure the people posting every story of gun related violence they can find are just of sure as their right not to get shot by a random lunatic as you are of your right to bear arms...
I do understand it, but I also understand that a mad man will committ mass murder irrespective of what is available to him to do it. Such examples as the Oklahoma city bombing come to mind as well as Charles Manson. Treating a symptom rather than the disease is not going to bear fruit. It never has. Columbine occurred during the last gun ban. It didn't stop these two young maniacs and nothing would have. All we can do is try to find these people in our society and prevent them from committing acts of violence before they act. We will never be totally successful. Weapon bans and accessory bans do nothing to solve the problem and only tear at the fiber of the country.
I would think it's far more dangerous to evacuate an entire family with an intruder in the house rather than killing them. Plus, it avoids any misunderstanding for future would-be intruders who stake out neighborhoods to rob/rape/assault.
That depends on the house and how many are in it.
And the intruders would be caught - in glorious technicolor - on my security cameras anyway which would, no doubt, help the police and avoid future misunderstandings.
Not saying I would not shoot. But it would be very much a last resort.
And the intruders would be caught - in glorious technicolor - on my security cameras anyway which would, no doubt, help the police and avoid future misunderstandings.
Not saying I would not shoot. But it would be very much a last resort.
Seems too risky not knowing how many intruders could be at other exits waiting to enter or waiting for you to flee. Killing the intruder would likely cause their confederates to flee. Better to be safe than sorry IMO.
I thought guns don't kill people? Now they're lethal. Got ya.
They're only lethal when put into action by a human being. But surely you know that.
A gun just lying in a secure place is no more dangerous than a baby pacifier lying in the crib.
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