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Originally posted by Gab:
Are you trying to tell that you always have a gun close to you when you sleep?! Are you that scared of buglars breaking in ?! I must say that it's a false sense of security. Many theifs aren't as stupid as you think. Most burglars are good at being very quit and can break in without waking you up. If it's the middle of the night and you're fast asleep, the burglar could use tools to open a window and crawl in without waking you up. It's that simple. If you were waken up, you'd be in the dark,sleepy and stumbling trying to get your gun. Not to mention that the thief usually just wants your valuable things instead of killing you. In fact, he"s more likely shoot if you've got a gun.
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I didn't say I was really secure. I'm not 'secure' in the truest sense of things. There's only one way to be sure of security, and that would be to submit all of my freedoms and allow myself to be locked in a solitary confinement cell for the rest of my life. I'll just be better able to react. If what you're saying is true that in fact most people sleep through breakins (unsubstantiated, but we'll go with it) and I happen to be the odd-man-out who wakes up and has the gun, isn't it rather likely that the burglars have gotten smart, and spared themselves the bulk of a clunky firearm (one worth carrying, a Jennings .25 or a Allen-Wheelock .22 Short isn't even worth the weight, really, it beats throwing rocks, however) and save that space for an additional item, a dozen wristwatches, perhaps. If not, then he won't be expecting my conscious response, and I can blast him or talk him down rather easily. Surprise is one hell of an advantage, history has proven this over, and over, and over, and over... Also, I wake up FAST. When I go to bed, I do so with latent traces of caffeine in my blood, and I in general don't sleep well. I'm a very light sleeper, and infrequently so. It's related to a nervous condition I have.
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If you wan't to know the exact number about family homicides and road rage, look it up yourself! If you got so angry at a family member, you might take out a gun and shoot them without thinking. It's totally ridiculous comparing a gun to a knife or your fists. It would take many slashes with a knife to kill someone, while one shot of the gun can be fatal.
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YOU get the numbers, I've read the numbers, and you made the argument! Do your own homework! There's a reason the Fifth Ammendment was passed: Asking someone to send themselves up the river is unreasonable. If your argument were founded, then I suppose you would have no trouble presenting it yourself. Also, have you not heard of stabbing? With a pen, fork or tableknife, I could easily pierce your windpipe in a single blow. If I were THAT angry, you would likely have more trouble with my wrath in general than just what I was armed with. Slashing is mainly a disabling tactic, albeit not nearly as reliable as good frangible ammunition (Glaser comes to mind) from a compact firearm. If your 'might' scenario can't be shown as a common example, I'm going to guess your balloon is deflated.
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11,000 deaths each year from a firearm is pretty sugnificant even if the data isn't completely correct. In fact it's higher. It's doesn't matter if some of them have been deaths from firearms out of self-defence, that's still a death. Is the thiefs life not important? The total number deaths from a firearm each year in the United States alone (no matter the reason) is around 25000.
There was once a time where theory picked a fight with what was believed to be reality,and theory threw what was believed to be reality into the dirt, and proceded to give it a sound beating...
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You aren't getting the point, everyone dies, but if 1/10000 or less of our population is dying of a particular cause, it's not a significant problem when far greater numbers die of something like car crashes or heart disease or cancer. AIDS kills more people in the US than all firearm related deaths (including deaths related to the manufacture of ammunition, which are rare these days) and it's rather paltry when you consider that heart disease kills more people than it, car accidents and cancer combined. The problem is, a number of those heart disease cases are related to weight problems, most of which are rather fixable. Accidental firearms deaths can be eliminated or rendered negligable by simply educating people about them, and ideal storage practices.
Also, way to twist my rhetoric (well-applied) into a hypocritical statement. You're semantically arguing a point up and down, but your theory doesn't have any reality to back it up. I've got a few angles, History, raw numbers, and criminology reports.