[Cerek the Barbaric]

On the issue of home defense. I don't completely agree with you that a burglar with a gun will only shoot if/or when he feels threatened. I've seen plenty of videos from convenience stores where the person behind the counter gave the money to the crook, and the crook shot at them anyway. I saw another video where a man was working late and his young wife had stopped by to visit with him. She was playing video games off to the side when two men came in to rob the store. Her husband gave the guy all the money in the register and did everything the guy asked. But as the robber and his partner turned to leave, the guy - for NO REASON - raised his gun and shot the wife as he walked out of the store. She was sitting on a stool with her hands over her head, not threatening him in any way...yet he decided to put a bullet in her anyway as he walked out. The wife - who was pregnant - was killed. The man lost his newlywed wife AND their unborn child.

I'm sorry, Faceman, but I will NOT leave the safety of my family up to the whims of a crook that breaks in my house.

You mentioned all the "non-lethal" alternatives. Guess what? Non-lethal or not, the robber will still feel "threatened" by them...so he's going to use lethal force while all I can do is hope the Tazer knocks him out before he can fire.

Nope, sorry, no way. The reason homewners get injured when they face a burglar is because most of them "freeze" when they actually are faced with the decison to pull the trigger. But - as I said before - I've already faced the threat of an armed gunman breaking into my house, and I can tell you for a cold hard fact that I WILL shoot him where he stands and I will drop him like a rock. I've been shooting pistols since I was a young boy, and at the risk of sounding egotistical, I am a very good shot. I typically shoot at my targets from a distance of 50-60 ft...and I will hit my target at least 70% of the time. That's shooting at a 20oz coke bottle from 50ft away. You put a human-sized target inside my house, where they will be no more than 25ft away (at the very most), and I can say with absolute assurance that I won't miss a single shot.

And if somebody does break into my house, I'm not going to sit around and wait to see if they decide to present a danger to my family or if they just want to grab some stuff and leave....if they break into my house, I automatically assume they ARE a threat to my family and I WILL protect my family with lethal force. No questions asked.