Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles

On 12/27/2024 10:40 PM, John B. wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:35:31 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 12/27/2024 9:44 AM, AMuzi wrote:

... shot with a gun in your home ...
>
The question is whose firearm?  More likely by your own by negligence/
misadventure or by the invader's weapon?  Decide and either arm yourself
or not depending on your own risks and your own assessment of those risks.

>
As I recall, a large portion of the gun deaths in the home happen to
wives or partners of men who own guns. Angry fights turn into shootings.
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And as I recall, those are much more common than armed home invasions.
Those are actually quite rare.
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As John has related in some detail, if someone does burst into your home
and threatens violence, having a gun in the home is very unlikely to help.
>

 No, that isn't true. I had a gun which was stored in the bedroom. I
was sitting, eating, at the table, in a different room when the three
guys kicked the door in and rushed into the house. Had I been in the
bed room when it happened it would have been a different story.

"Coulda, woulda, shoulda..."
You had a gun in your house, probably for "protection." You are one of the tiny percentage of Americans who ever suffer a true home invasion. Your gun did you no good, because you don't go around inside your home with your gun always within easy reach. That latter fact is true of almost all gun owners.
Deal with it.

The question of whether a gun in the house is useful is a far more
complex problem then one single incident can explain. See
https://www.heritage.org/gun-rights/commentary/11-more-cases-which-responsible-gun-owners-saved-lives

Ah, eleven anecdotes, doubtlessly found by enthusiastic search! Versus many, many hundreds of data points collected in unbiased and disciplined scientific ways.
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- Frank Krygowski