Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 11:18:13 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 12/28/2024 9:45 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

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.
>
And as I recall, those are much more common than armed
home invasions.
Those are actually quite rare.
>
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.

Well, of course it wasn't in "America" but I would comment that less
then a month after my "event" some one(ones?) walked up to a house
about 50 yards from my house and shot and killed everyone - three
people - in the house.
 
And using the term "America" is really, in my experience, not an
accurate term for actives of the residents. I grew up in a small New
England town where no one in living memory had been deliberately shot
but when I worked in rural Georgia I discovered that people shooting
people was, while not an every day happening, certainly wasn't rare
either.

 
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Cheers,

John B.