(06-07-2018, 08:24 PM)lastonealive Wrote: [ -> ]The point is we aren't as worried about defending ourselves. Don't seem to live in the same fear. I wonder why?
You mistakenly equate gun ownership as a byproduct of worry and fear. You simply could not be any more incorrect. Not having ever lived in a country that has a armed citizenry you obviously cannot relate. That is not a knock on you just a fact that seems apparent to me.
I'm not the one who brings up self defense though?
If you need weapons for self defense you obviously are worried about being in harms way?
(06-07-2018, 09:38 PM)lastonealive Wrote: [ -> ]I'm not the one who brings up self defense though?
If you need weapons for self defense you obviously are worried about being in harms way?
There's a difference between being worried and being prepared. You have smoke detectors right? Are you worried that your house is going to burn down tonight?
I'm not worried, because I'm prepared and have taken measures to protect myself and my family in case of the very very rare chance someone does try to break into my place.
(06-07-2018, 06:41 PM)lastonealive Wrote: [ -> ]Well exactly. I agree with you. The guns in your homes make it more dangerous for you if the burglars come tooled up and jumpy
Feel free to defend your home and your family with a white flag.
I prefer to defend mine with hollow points.
(06-07-2018, 08:24 PM)lastonealive Wrote: [ -> ]The point is we aren't as worried about defending ourselves. Don't seem to live in the same fear. I wonder why?
Because you've been conditioned to believe that your government will protect you if you surrender your natural rights to them?
Because you have been falsely led to believe that your law reduced violent crime?
Because you falsely believe the the law removed a majority percentage of firearms from your society?
Because you falsely believe that access to a tool gives a person motive to use it in a criminal manner?
Because you live on an island that makes natural immigration by undesirables difficult?
Because your government disarmed, exterminated, and marginalized your minority population?
Because you don't know that violent crime in the USA declined at the exact same rate as that of Australia in the 10 years after the gun ban even though the USA doubled the production and private ownership of guns from 1993 to 2011?
Because you don't know that the suicide rate in Australia has remained the same in those same years while that rate in the USA has declined?
Lots of reasons I guess, but mostly because you live in ignorant bliss?
You been reading blogs again?
(06-08-2018, 07:23 AM)Sneakers Wrote: [ -> ] (06-07-2018, 06:41 PM)lastonealive Wrote: [ -> ]Well exactly. I agree with you. The guns in your homes make it more dangerous for you if the burglars come tooled up and jumpy
Feel free to defend your home and your family with a white flag.
I prefer to defend mine with hollow points.
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You can choose to put responsibility into your own hands.
Or, (if you're still alive to do so) you can complain later after the fact to your government why they didn't live up to their responsibility to "protect" the ones you've lost.
But homicide is far more likely in the US so it's obviously not working?
I don't live in fear of intruders coming to get me. I have decent locks on house and windows to try and prevent any opportunist burglars while I'm at work. I don't need an AK or any other self defense thanks
(06-08-2018, 09:00 PM)lastonealive Wrote: [ -> ]But homicide is far more likely in the US so it's obviously not working?
I don't live in fear of intruders coming to get me. I have decent locks on house and windows to try and prevent any opportunist burglars while I'm at work. I don't need an AK or any other self defense thanks
I can't really argue with the homicide rate number, but I think it's a bit misleading.
There are about 17k homicides in the US. About 10K are gang-related. We have a gang problem for sure, but if you aren't in a gang, you don't have much to worry about.
Why do you think, by owning a gun, that we live in fear? I want a gun because I don't know what could happen. It doesn't matter if I'm in the UK (or elsewhere), or at a place where I probably wouldn't meet someone else with one. I'd still want the advantage should I need it. Are locks and windows really the only means of self-defense that you have?