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1/22/2020 5:41:44 PM
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You do realize that there are in between 500k to 3 million defensive uses of firearms a year in the US according to the CDC in 2013. They are hard to track because not all of them are reported, but they include everything from brandishing a weapon at an attacker too permanent sleeping the attacker. So they do in fact save more lives than take them.
I could also bring up the fact that blunt objects, knives, and fisticuffs, individually permanent sleep more people than the ar-15 also known as fully semi-automatic Assault Rifle-15MM. Which is the current gun legislation focus.
[url]https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/unpublished-cdc-study-confirms-2-million-defensive-handgun-uses-annually/[/url]
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[quote]permanent sleeping the attacker. [/quote] Im so using that term 😁 I’d rather have a taser as self Defence, at least you haven’t got to worry about using it and much less Mess on your walls 🙈
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That's your choice, but if tasers were reliable, cops wouldn't have to shoot so many melee wielding enemies. There is a metric shit ton of taser fail videos on youtube.
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Plus a gun isn’t reliable, you can still miss or get shot yourself. Using your gun is a big decision tho and could have serious implications. A taser less so. But will still take down a person if you get em
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[quote]A taser less so. But will still take down a person if you get em[/quote] Have you ever used a taser against someone in a real life self-defense situation because I don’t know if you are being serious or willfully ignorant. Tasers absolutely do fail.
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Nope, I wouldn’t trust a cheap one tho. My sister used to have pepper spray when she was younger tho, (even tho it was illegal) and she had to use it once too. Thank -blam!- she had it, it works. I sprayed it once away from myself and it still hurt 😆
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If you think guns are not reliable, then I would tell you to stop using highpoint. My Springfield 1911 (which I carry everyday) has never stovepiped, failed to load, or failed to eject. 1500 rounds est and counting. As for aim, that is an operator issue, not a gun issue. And yes I do agree that it is a big decision, but if it comes down to protecting me or my family and friends, you can bet your ass that I am going to ventilate a badie and he will take the room temperature challenge. Don't get me wrong, I'm not walking around with a chip on my shoulder, I just won't be victimized. But, if a taser is what you are comfortable with, then the best of luck to you.
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Well I ain’t got a taser either but Ive never felt uncomfortable walking down a dark road or down town at night, 33 years on this world and not once have I ever needed a weapon to defend myself. If everyone here had guns that would not be the case
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Editado por FightinFinn 2-7: 1/22/2020 6:47:22 PMI had a couple of junkies try to stop me in the road, last year. I can only assume, with the way they blocked the road, was that they intended to rob me. I didn't have my firearm on me at that moment and I resorted to trying to run them over. I called the police, but it took them 15 min to get to the area where it happened. The reason why I know when they got there is because my house was only 3 blocks away from where it happened and it is on a hill. After that I carry 24/7. The pathetic part was, the sheriff's department was a half mile away, and the police station only about another block down the road. F.Y.I since I get the feeling you don't live in the US. State Troopers have statewide jurisdiction, Sheriffs deputies have county jurisdiction and then the City police, have City wide jurisdiction. If you don't need it then consider it a foreigners guide to different types of police an their jurisdictions. EDIT: punctuation error.
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Yup I’d recommend running them over even if you had a gun, why stop or get out in that situation. It is a massive problem you guys have, I don’t disagree with you wanting to protect yourself, if I lived somewhere where gun crime was as rife I’d want to protect myself to, but that is not a Fix to the problem, it’s a result that makes it worse. Did you know 1 in 64 people in England own a shotgun? That’s a lot of shotguns and yet the crimes connected to them is close to non existent in comparison. That’s because it’s very hard to justify your need for a shotgun before you get your license. I’ve never said there is a quick fix for the gun issues, it will take decades to fix and needs to be done in a million tiny steps, not one big change that will just lead to anarchy. I think those tiny steps are starting to happen tho 🙂
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Editado por FightinFinn 2-7: 1/22/2020 7:11:46 PMThat wily meth-head dodged my car and I wouldn't have stopped, even if I had it, but the old adage, "Better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it" rang pretty true. On the subject of meth-heads, the real problem here isn't the guns, there have always been millions of guns here, it is the drugs and mental illness, that push people to use them. You also are not factoring in that the Population here is much larger and England's gun homicide rate has always been much lower than the US. As for justifying needing a license, I see no reason why I have to justify myself to a bunch of bureaucrats and royalty who have armed guards 24/7. Just sounds like rules for the, but not for me.
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In short I’d say someone living in a city shouldn’t need guns unless it’s for their job. The sad bit is I can understand why people do have them because everyone else does. That is the only justifiable reason. As for people out on the sticks they have more of a reason, much like our farmers. I couldn’t justify having a gun at my house tho, and having to take it with me for protection if I left my house just sounds insane, I live in the uk not Somalia 😕 It would be nice if one day America was like that, it’s a future I think people should want not fear.
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I do feel sorry for your police, having to take on a knife wielding loon with nothing more than a billy club. At the end of the day, it is a cultural difference and it isn't like I walk around paranoid all day. Hell, all my pistol has killed is a bunch of paper and a few skunks, cotton mouths, and an armadillo. My side of the road is outside city limits, so the cops are ok with me killing pest animals. Don't get me started on my hunting rifles, I'll be here all day!
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We do have armed police when needed, they don’t need it most the time tho. Some guy near me once had his wife and kids hostage in his house with a machete and they sent in the armed police to that.
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I am fully aware of that, but the first responders don't.
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Editado por SWED420: 1/22/2020 7:53:18 PMDepends on intel, it’s always a risk tho. There was a case many years ago where some guy called the police to his house for something trivial just to throw a grenade at them and shoot them 😥 Personally I wouldn’t be against them all being armed, but that said these incidents are extremely rare. Edit, bad example really, they would of been killed armed or not. Completely unexpected attack
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I can't think of a singe grenade crime in the U.S. since I have been alive. 32 years Hey at least we ain't Sweden!
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Make them better then 🤷♂️
