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In Reply to: RE: That's fine. I also grew up in a household with rifles. Handguns are posted by tinear on May 29, 2021 at 07:12:40
I think that assault rifles should be limited to the military and law enforcement. I see no reason for any law abiding citizen to own one.
I feel super safe where I live now. That wasn't always the case. When I lived in the city, we were burglarized. My wife walked in while it was going on - very scary. Luckily, they ran out the back while she was running out the front and we just lost some stuff. After that, someone tried to break in early one morning after I had left for work but my wife was still home. That was when I bought a couple of hand guns and taught my wife to shoot. A neighbor next door and across the street were burglarized. The lady across the street was burglarized three times. Cars were broken into weekly. I had my car and a company car broken into. They just broke out the window on the street side and took whatever. It was very inconvenient leaving for work to have to vacuum glass and install plastic in place of a window.
Car break-ins occur almost nightly in a very nice area of the city. It's on the news a few times a week. One guy said that his truck had been broken into eight times. Armed teenagers are constantly car jacking people. These kids are as young as 13-15. Two kids carjacked a woman and shot and killed her recently. There is currently a fight over trying them as adults.
We moved to a suburb where we lived for 30+ years that was safer than the city. We had one burglary of a neighbor there and one neighbor got car jacked as he was pulling into his driveway last year. There is spill over crime in the suburbs.
Where I live now is about as safe as it gets.
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Wow.
All of your examples are exactly why the criminal element of society should not be allowed to have guns!
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We are inclusive and diverse. But dissent will not be tolerated.
a guy walks up to your window (happened to me) and sticks a gun in your throat. Yeah, you're gonna draw yours, right after your head is blown off.
Your examples show how crazy the idea of gun security is. If your wife or you had been armed in your examples, one or both of you may have been killed---- or you may have killed a human being.
Guns can make you feel safer, but they don't: they make you less safe because you begin to think you're Dirty Harry when in fact you're just a schmuck with a gun who's going to be shaking in a crisis and not able to hit shit, except a bystander perhaps, when he starts panic pulling.
The guns weren't for drawing and having a shoot out with a criminal. They were for protection inside my house if someone were to try to break in.
If car jacked, or robbed, I would give up the car or my wallet. Even if I was carrying, I wouldn't resist. A CC weapon is a last resort thing when you feel your life is at stake. Having a gun is a personal decision. You make your decision and I make mine.
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