[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

If you just splurge on a predator drone, and then employ the team to monitor your block 24/7, I think you'd be a lot safer than if you just got a shotgun. I don't think you're doing everything you can to protect your family here.

I can see it now, some crackhead breaks into your house armed with one of your lamps, and you blow him to pieces with a mossberg. What's that, 20-life for murder?

No. Its not. Its self-defense.

Because you surely can't get away with "I was defending myself from the threatening crackhead who had a lamp in his hand by blowing half of his torso all over my living room" in most cases.

Yes you can. Honestly, how much thinking do you think is going on in these cases? Am I taking the time to see if they have a lamp or a gun? In the dark? If the lights are on, that's one thing, but even then the invader takes his life in his own hands.

You should get a hummer while you're at it.
Oh, and maybe a mesh-backed baseball hat and a tribal tattoo!

Oh grow up.

Edit: Besides, buying a gun as a defense instead of buying actual defenses for your house, just seems to me to be a lot more that you want some bad-ass talking point you can always tell people. Like "Hey, I have a gun, you guys. And it's a Mossberg!" instead of saying "Yeah, we just got some new alarm system." Because bragging about an alarm system isn't as cool.

Typh, I've had guns my whole life. Have you ever heard me brag about being a gun owner? No. Lets not be childish about this. The reason I'm attracted to the Mossberg isn't because its in MW2... its because ots the more reliable shotgun on the market, and that's what you want in a home defense weapon.

The funniest part about this argument is how it has degraded. No one seems to want to discuss the points I've made, but instead want to assume I a) want to shoot people or 2) want to be a redneck jackass. Amazing.

People seem more sympathetic to the scumbag invader than the person trying to defend his home. That's sad.