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Pretty sure I only insinuated it once, champ.
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No, twice in fact. The second time is when you said I could be "a normal person" and get a dog. The idea could have easily been made without the added insult,
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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)
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Dyflon, they teach law enforcement personnel, professional gunmen, to shoot to kill when threatened and in fact empty their clip just to be sure. You would expect more from an armed citizen when their home has been invaded? I think that's fantasy.
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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.
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That and to practice using it and perform maintenance. But your trust is well laid.
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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.
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In the end you are trusting someone with such low moral character that they would break into your home to run away if there is a dog or an alarm. I don't have that much trust.
I can see your point of view. You're playing the odds. With a family, I simply refuse to play the odds anymore.