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RealPlumpBox:

--- Quote from: wiggy on February 03, 2016, 07:34:26 AM ---Get renters insurance. Depending on what state you live in, you may go to prison for shooting an home invader.

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I live in Seattle WA. It is one of the most lax gun law states in the US. I have ever right to protect myself from a home invasion. Also I do in fact have renters insurance. It was mandatory.

wiggy:

--- Quote from: FritzWhite on February 03, 2016, 12:36:51 PM ---
--- Quote from: wiggy on February 03, 2016, 07:34:26 AM ---Get renters insurance. Depending on what state you live in, you may go to prison for shooting an home invader.

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Better than your family being dead.

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LOL! You've a better chance of being struck by lighting than having a random home invader kill you and all of your family, and having a gun in the house actually worsens your odds.

https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2012/12/health-risk-having-gun-home

FritzWhite:

--- Quote from: wiggy on February 06, 2016, 07:10:01 PM ---
--- Quote from: FritzWhite on February 03, 2016, 12:36:51 PM ---
--- Quote from: wiggy on February 03, 2016, 07:34:26 AM ---Get renters insurance. Depending on what state you live in, you may go to prison for shooting an home invader.

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Better than your family being dead.

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LOL! You've a better chance of being struck by lighting than having a random home invader kill you and all of your family, and having a gun in the house actually worsens your odds.

https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2012/12/health-risk-having-gun-home

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You really feel that safe? A little girl was murdered in the condo next to me and her death ABSOLUTELY COULD have been prevented through proper use of a firearm.

Sure, it's not the end all be all for self defense, but it is a critical component if you want to be prepared. I wonder what kind of bubble you live in where you feel so protected from anything dangerous ever happening to you.

By the way, having a gun in your house only worsens your odds if you're untrained. People who drive in cars are significantly more likely to be in car accidents. I think it would be unwise to not have a vehicle in the name of safety and I also think it's unwise to not be prepared to defend myself at all times. HOWEVER, I'm not judging someone else if they're afraid of them.

The article you linked contained a number of quotes from David Hemenway. I'd like to add one more in here to give a better understanding of his mindset.

Hemenway appeared at a forum hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and made the following statement in April 2013, "Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with a gun, the mark of a real man is that you would never do anything like that. . . . The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I’d like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren’t anybody to be looked up to. They’re somebody to look down at because they couldn’t defend themselves or couldn’t protect others without using a gun."

KalessinDB:
#popcorn

HOW long can we go before the pro gun guy and the anti gun guy realize they're speaking completely different languages and will literally NEVER understand each other's viewpoint no matter what?

I've played this game with lots of pro gun guys at work (I'm quite anto gun). We can respect each other, but we absolutely cannot understand each other. It's not worth the breath/keystrokes.

TDIRunner:

--- Quote from: KalessinDB on February 07, 2016, 07:14:18 PM ---#popcorn

HOW long can we go before the pro gun guy and the anti gun guy realize they're speaking completely different languages and will literally NEVER understand each other's viewpoint no matter what?

I've played this game with lots of pro gun guys at work (I'm quite anto gun). We can respect each other, but we absolutely cannot understand each other. It's not worth the breath/keystrokes.

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I'm very pro gun, but I'm avoiding this topic for the same reasons. It's not that I don't want to make the argument. It's that I don't want to make the argument HERE. I avoid the political debates here for the same reason (not that they come up that often in the first place). I don't come here for debates, unless it's a debate about video games. :P

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