Posted on 05/19/2013 5:30:58 AM PDT by rellimpank
New York — Nearly 10 years ago, my mother was robbed in front of our home after getting off her second-shift job.
The hooded mugger stole my mother's purse by knocking her down and wrestling her purse from her shoulder. She injured her wrist and suffered a few scrapes and bruises. The attack shook her up. I was inside watching television with my father when the incident occurred. We didn't hear or see a thing, but that didn't stop us from driving around the neighborhood looking for anyone suspicious.
A week after the incident, I legally purchased my first gun. It was an impulse buy, but it was a decision I made to keep my family safe.
I was raised around guns. On my grandparents' farm, they kept a loaded rifle on the front porch and another one in the living room behind their black and white television. For them, a rifle was not used solely for protection. Guns were used mainly for hunting and, if necessary, for protection.
Nearly half of today's American gun owners report that their main reason for having a gun is protection. Fewer than one-third own a gun for hunting. This is remarkably different from the late 1990s when nearly half of gun owners kept guns mainly for hunting. In 1999, only one-quarter cited protection as their most important reason, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Are we any safer with Homeland Security ordering billions of bullets?
Causey is the sort of person who imagines there is something to be debated with pointy-headed pinko commies. The one handing him BS about your gun being taken away was citing a study on policemen. The crappy remark about “the only way to win is if no one gets hurt.” is also manure. Mr. Causey, this is the proper answer to some of those:
1. If you shoot someone breaking into your house, the reasons why they are breaking into your house are not relevant- they are someplace they should not be.
2. If the crook dies, then it is because it is the righteous will of God that they passed. You were the instrument of His will.
3. .0000000001% of being able to save your own life is still better than 0%.
4. Some guy citing some BS study he wrote himself in 1993 is likely to be pimping it to keep the cash flowing in, especially if the results of that study are obvious crap.
If someone has threatened my family I am certainly not going to worry about the attacker's safety.
Back in the 50’s when I was a kid, a crazed man broke into our home in broad daylight. I vividly remember my dad containing him with his Walther. We later found out the guy had just knifed someone.
(Demonstrating that, "If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns". It may be a cliche', but it's also a truism.)
Frankly, I don’t believe the author’s story, nor do I believe the study results the “professor” obtained.
Most any of the circumstances, pivotal “heart-tugger” examples of children getting at a gun in the home are the case of the parents not securing them properly, and they are few with respect to the numbers of guns kept in the home vs. accidents.
As for the scenarios in the exercise, no one can convince me my odds are better NOT having a gun during an intrusion. This study is bullshit. I just flat-ass don’t believe it.
And this matters because....?
I got a gun and the burglar doesn’t. The guy says there is a 50% chance the burglar will get it away from me. Where do they get these statistics?
>>”Here’s the issue. You never killed anyone before, and you don’t know if that burglar is the kid down the street or a street person who is just hungry.................
I had a liberal pastor ask me that once. I asked him how he would would feel if he discovers that their motives are far worse as they are beating him to death or raping his wife in front of him? He said he was shocked at my bluntness. I told him that crime is crime, and it is rarely a good experience for the victim.
Now iffen he had purchased the gun ILLEGALLY, the Gummint wouldn’t have any RECORD of it, and they couldn’t come and try to take it away.
(This whole article is TOTAL BS, BTW.)
And BTW,Jimmy (or may I call you Skippy?) firearms aren’t just for protection from criminals,they’re also for protection from an out of control government,as noted quite clearly and forcefully by one Hubert Horatio Humphrey in 1960.
This guy does not think about his words. The mugger injured her wrist.
I never saw much point in paying any attention to such nonsensical questions since my Mom gave me the only piece of advice I've ever needed when it comes to being 'prepared' for, well..... just about anything!
Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
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LOL!
For some people, common sense is really HARD!
I agree. Many people have been killed by that quiet kid down the street. Plus a lot of homeless have mental problems that go beyond any psychological help I’m able to provide.
Given that the burglar won't be allowed to get within 30 feet of me (or my family) how's he gonna accomplish that?
ltr
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