06-18-2023, 04:45 AM
This has become a discussion about growing apples that taste like oranges on a grapefruit tree!
Buying a gun for home protection is a HELL OF A LOT more involved than just buying a gun. I agree, most people who do end up legally buying a gun for home protection fail at successfully defending themselves or their home due to lack of training as well as an ego that makes the owner think the gun is a substitute for an increased size of a certain male body part.
I can see a tremendous validity in what Aaron suggested about more or less being the equivalent of being police certified to buy a weapon when faced with what has happened in society the last few years. But as Aaron also stated, there are more guns in America than people.
Having said all that, I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that I highly doubt the 4 people arrested as well as the victim obtained ANY of the guns thru legal documented processes.
I will also say that a can of pork and beans (or dog food as we saw in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood) can be quite effective at defense. The only difference is the weapon. But the will to definitively use that weapon has to be present on the first place. (Let's not confuse the will to use ANY weapon for defense against a crack head who just likes to pull the trigger doing a mag dump for fun)
As always, the Simpsons covered this very topic quite well!
https://youtu.be/A-seQEwN3BM
Buying a gun for home protection is a HELL OF A LOT more involved than just buying a gun. I agree, most people who do end up legally buying a gun for home protection fail at successfully defending themselves or their home due to lack of training as well as an ego that makes the owner think the gun is a substitute for an increased size of a certain male body part.
I can see a tremendous validity in what Aaron suggested about more or less being the equivalent of being police certified to buy a weapon when faced with what has happened in society the last few years. But as Aaron also stated, there are more guns in America than people.
Having said all that, I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that I highly doubt the 4 people arrested as well as the victim obtained ANY of the guns thru legal documented processes.
I will also say that a can of pork and beans (or dog food as we saw in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood) can be quite effective at defense. The only difference is the weapon. But the will to definitively use that weapon has to be present on the first place. (Let's not confuse the will to use ANY weapon for defense against a crack head who just likes to pull the trigger doing a mag dump for fun)
As always, the Simpsons covered this very topic quite well!
https://youtu.be/A-seQEwN3BM