Another Responsible Gun Owner Stands His Ground

[WildCat]

What are numbers gun deaths/injuries in the US?

How many are:
-murders
-accidental shootings like the OP
-suicides
-accidents
-children playing with guns
-etc

There is so much debate on this subject, but i've never seen what behaviour with guns is causing the most problems.

Mostly gangbangers shooting each other with handguns to protect the drug turf our Prohibitionists have handed them.

 

[seycyrus]

So now you're just lying.

Troll. Goodbye.

What? Ok, if you have to pretend that anything I said is fabricated to justify your retreat from the stupidity you have expounded, by all means. Goodbye and good riddance.

 

[WildCat]

ETA: Boy, I see the butthurt among our resident cultists gets bigger with every piece of evidence indicating that people simply shouldn't have guns in the first place.

Odd, in another thread you had your undies in a bunch because you though people were paranoid for thinking the government was going to take their guns away. Which is exactly what you're advocating.

 

[Dr. Keith]

Therefore, as has been shown. In all circumstances, the bad guys advantage is reduced if the good guy has a gun.

I don't think it has been shown.

An inaccesible gun is useless to the owner and valuable to the thief.

In fact, a nice gun safe may attract a certain kind of thief and make it more likely they will come when you are home; how else will they get the safe open.

An accessible gun may be useless to the owner depending on reaction time and location, but will be dangerous to the owner and the owner's family. If the idea is to protect ones family, then leaving a loaded gun around all the time, in every room, seems a bit counterintuitive. I know a guy who lives like that, but his wife moved out decades ago and his kids make him put the guns away before they will visit. And the accessible gun will always be valuable to the thief. Most thieves will come when you aren't there and be happy to collect your guns, and may even use them on you when you return. The few who come while you are there will have less problem killing someone reaching for a gun.

I think if you map out all the possible scenarios there are far more where owning a gun is bad for the owner than good. You have to be constantly vigilant to get the full benefit of gun ownership, never a lapse in security awareness or safety. Living like that has its own price.

 

[WildCat]

You know the funny part? Most of these gunbangers don't even realize that in a home invasion, if their gun isn't right at hand for them to pick up immediately, they'll just get shot while they're going for it.

I'm not even sure they (the gunbangers) understand how fast things move when something like that happens -- you hear the door get kicked in, BANG, and then within a few seconds there are one-to-several people inside with guns out and either giving orders or just shooting people down. And let's not even think about the case when you're asleep and get woken up by the door-kick -- the odds that they'll even know what's happening are so slight that it isn't even funny.

And somehow a gun will save you from this.



If you're worried about home invasions, your #1 priority needs to be to MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE, because the odds are _always_ heavily in favor of the guy who already has his gun out, and in a home invasion? Guess what, that ain't you.

Your evidence that burglars enter homes with gun drawn is...?

Oh, right, you're just slaying that strawman you constructed.

 

[remirol]

Odd, in another thread you had your undies in a bunch because you though people were paranoid for thinking the government was going to take their guns away. Which is exactly what you're advocating.

There's a difference between believing that something should or could happen and thinking that it actually will. If you work on your reading comprehension you'll see in the other thread where I point out that actually expecting any sort of "confiscation" initiative to succeed is subject to so many practical hurdles that, well, I won't hold my breath.

 

[WildCat]

I was looking into this recently. In 2011 the rate of homicide was 4.7 per 100,000 (including all methods). The rate of gun death was 10.3 per 100,000. That means that the rate of death from firearms in 2011 was more than double the total murder rate for the same period.

This means that well over half of gun deaths are not deliberate murders. They're accidents and suicides.

Almost all of the remainder are suicides, not accidents. And there's no evidence whatsoever anywhere that gun laws have an effect on suicide rates.

 

[NoahFence]

Your evidence that burglars enter homes with gun drawn is...?

Oh, right, you're just slaying that strawman you constructed.

One would think that would be common sense. That if you're breaking into a house and you happen to have a gun with you, it would be drawn. What's the point of bringing it with you if you don't use it??

 

[remirol]

Your evidence that burglars enter homes with gun drawn is...?

Burglary != Home Invasion. Burglars enter homes during the day, while people are at work; they make an effort to ensure nobody's home.

More false equivalence from you, how unsurprising.

 

[seycyrus]

I don't think it has been shown. ...

It has indeed been shown. We are discussing the situation in which bad guys are physically present and intent on doing bad things. The specific question being addressed in this tit-for-tat is "Is the bad guys advantage increased or decreased if his victim has a gun?"

Not whether or not owning a gun makes it more likely that you will be a victim of criminal activity, in general.

 

[Belz...]

You admit that you have no evidence, no experience, and no clue. Admission noted.



Military and law enforcement actually train to operate as efficiently and quickly as you describe.


Why would you take joy in someone's misfortune?

Your post makes it seem like you're trolling or playing word games. I don't see this thread as appropriate for that.

 

[Belz...]

Will their advantage be less, if I do or don't have a gun?

Your gun escalates the situation. They might decide to kill you rather than just steal from you. I'd rather the latter, personally. I'd use a gun for defense only if it confers an advantage TO ME.

Not at all. Your points are so infantile that presenting them in the light just illustrates their utter ridiculousness.

"Presenting them in the light" doesn't mean "rewriting them so they say something entirely different."

 

[Cainkane1]

I'm going to say this and then go. People who misuse guns make gun owners who don't look bad. As an owner of six handguns, two shotguns and a few historical rifles including a WW2 era Nagant I have never committed a crime with them.

Shooting a bad guy is the last thing you do especially in the situation the 69 year old fool was involved in. Those kids weren't in the house, they had no weapons and there was no reason for the old idiot to shoot them.

I hope the old fool is convicted as in the book thrown at him.

I've never fired on anythong more vital than paper targets, pumpkins and watermelons and tin cans. I enjoy shooting throughly and I'm as outraged as anyone when something like this happens.

 

[Polaris]

Just another case of a god-fearin' second amendment respectin' gun owner protectin' HIS DERN PROPPITY with his legal guns, right?

If only he'd had more training! Isn't that one of the latest gunbanger memes? More training! More knowledge! People can be trusted! Really!

ETA: Boy, I see the butthurt among our resident cultists gets bigger with every piece of evidence indicating that people simply shouldn't have guns in the first place. And the excuses get thinner, and thinner, and thinner, and the cognitive dissonance among them gets stronger and stronger.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: this would be hilarious to watch if people weren't having to die to prove the point that people are lazy, careless, and irresponsible, and only a small fraction of them should _ever_ be trusted with lethal weapons.

Well isn't that charming and helpful.

 

[Belz...]

No, it is pretty clear that the citation required is that the bad guys will be able to do their business before the good guys have time to react.

Really ? Where do you keep your gun, sir ? In a safe with the ammunition in a separate compartment, as you should ? If so, how fast could you retrieve and arm your gun once you hear people tear down your front door in the middle of the night ?

 

[Belz...]

No, it does not depend. Even in the cases where you want to reduce the possibility of one accessing their firearm to an infinitesimally small number, that number is still greater than zero.

Therefore, as has been shown. In all circumstances, the bad guys advantage is reduced if the good guy has a gun.

"Shown" ?

 

[Belz...]

Forgive me, but I don't have the time to go through that with you right now.

You are magnificent, mister "citation needed".

 

[phunk]

I don't sleep and keep my safe right next to my outside door. Do you? I live in a dwelling that has individual, separate rooms.

I do agree that if I lived in some sort of communal hut, the scenario you mention could be problematic.

So when someone breaks in, they are immediately in between you and your guns? This seems poorly planned.

 

[Polaris]

I'm going to say this and then go. People who misuse guns make gun owners who don't look bad. As an owner of six handguns, two shotguns and a few historical rifles including a WW2 era Nagant I have never committed a crime with them.

Shooting a bad guy is the last thing you do especially in the situation the 69 year old fool was involved in. Those kids weren't in the house, they had no weapons and there was no reason for the old idiot to shoot them.

I hope the old fool is convicted as in the book thrown at him.

I've never fired on anythong more vital than paper targets, pumpkins and watermelons and tin cans. I enjoy shooting throughly and I'm as outraged as anyone when something like this happens.

And people who hate guns and have contempt for gun owners get raging hard-ons with cases like this as it reenforces their already turgid confirmation bias.

This lack of rational thinking and bigotry wouldn't be tolerated in any other subject. Hell, look among these threads and you'll find people who say that correcting basic factual errors is a fallacy (!?!).

 

[NoahFence]

I've never fired on anythong more vital than paper targets, pumpkins and watermelons and tin cans. I enjoy shooting throughly and I'm as outraged as anyone when something like this happens.

You dirty bird....