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Originally Posted by Professor S
And Dylflon, I'd appreciate it if you would stop insinuating that I am somehow bizarre or a killer if I decide to purchase a gun. Nothing I've described here would make you assume I am some nut, so please stop inferring it.
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Pretty sure I only insinuated it once, champ.
And what I meant to say the first time was phrased incredibly poorly. My concern is of thinking of shooting to kill over shooting to wound. (This thought was in response to you referring to liquefying an intruder)
But there is no point in pushing this any further because we clearly have very different ideas about home security and merit of gun ownership that we can't mediate through discussion.
Do what helps you sleep at night I suppose. I trust you'll take every precaution so that the gun never comes out of its respective hiding place unless the unthinkable happens.
The reality is that if you take precautions such as an alarm system and a dog who is also pretty much an alarm system, no intruder would bother breaking into your house with those two hurdles in front of him. Even criminals understand risk vs. reward. But I take this idea as a reason for my not wanting to own a handgun.
I know that in America (and parts of Canada) there is a very different ideology surrounding gun ownership, so I'm not going to argue with you or shit on your parade.