"We've grown up around firearms. We know the safety and we practice it."
- Thread starter Free Thinker
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You're splitting hairs. Two separate concepts will never be exactly alike.
Guns ARE an insurance policy on your physical person. That logic is a plain as day.
The reason you're kept as safe as you are now is because, in part, Cops use guns to apprehend and deter criminals. Now think about all the poor victims of home invasions, rape, robberies-gone-bad and murders that would be alive today had they packed guns? Hundreds of thousands. They died because they were pacifists, like you. How smart was that decision to not carry a gun, in light of their grisly demise?
Yea, exactly.
Anti 2nd Amendment types always point to examples of deaths resulting from careless gun owners.
They never recognize the tens of thousands of cases where gun owners repelled criminal attack with guns. Nor do they recognize the many victims of deadly assault, rape and murder would still be alive today had they chosen to carry a gun and use it.
Unless you had your gun out while watching TV, I doubt you'd be in a position to use it during a surprise home invasion. The same applies to most, but certainly not all, instances of attack. Predators look for vulnerability, not challenges. Therefore, with few exceptions, I would imagine that firearm aficionados bent on getting the upper hand in all conceivable scenarios, which need not necessarily appear threatening at the outset, would have to have their trigger finger pretty much at the ready at all times. I'm all for personal safety. But I'm not sure how many fidgety and shifty-eyed action heroes with itchy trigger fingers I would want to be around at any one time.
Therefore, I think you are overstating the number of preventable tragedies of one kind, and overlooking the number of preventable tragedies of another kind.
i have an alarm in my house. Beeps twice when the perimeter is breached (window or door) and then sends silent alarm to station. i hear that beep in my house (speaker is in the bedroom) very clear. if someone enters, my gun safe is 5 feet away and i am upstairs. i can be armed and ready to dance in seconds.