Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:18:34 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 12/28/2024 12:16 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 12/28/2024 9:41 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 12/28/2024 9:25 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 12/27/2024 8:59 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 12/27/2024 2:35 PM, AMuzi wrote:

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Sure, there are incidents like the woman last summer who shot dead
the guy attacking her husband using her one day old pistol, but
we'd have to call that a fortuitous fluke. Start with that same
woman asleep at 2am and the outcome is less clear.  Your odds, with
years of experience, practice and 'muscle memory' are much better.

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But damn, what a thing to devote your life to!
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"I'm going to practice three times a week so in case someone breaks
into my house in the middle of the night, I can slap my hand right
on my gun, jump up into combat stance and blow the intruder away!"
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Sheesh. 99.999% chance it's just a waste of time, plus a paranoid
mindset.
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Not really, for me anyway.
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The past several years, I shoot targets weekly with a pistol I made
and find it a challenging and relaxing pause in my week.

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Target practice can be fun, I agree. But I think it has little
relevance to a 2 AM home invasion.
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Only tangentially, but it does.
Ownership is itself a factor.
Familiarity, including 'muscle memory' is a factor, just as much as for,
as I mentioned earlier, friction shifting or riding no hands. After
doing it a lot, you no longer think while doing it.

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My point in more detail: In your hypothetical 2 AM home invasion
situation, familiarity with your gun has value only in the very last
seconds. Your problems begin so much earlier that the benefits are
probably only theoretical.
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Again, John described his case, in which he was actually awake and
eating dinner. He had absolutely no way of getting to his gun.
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Someone lying asleep at 2 AM will not have the alertness to even
comprehend what's happening at first. Will they be able to fumble around
and find their gun? If so, it's stored improperly and vulnerable to
theft, or perhaps to their kid finding it and shooting himself, shooting
someone else, or just taking it to school leading to all sorts of hell
breaking loose.
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If they do fumble around and find the gun, then what? Get into a
gunfight with a guy who has entered with weapon drawn? Good luck! Blast
through a bedroom door hoping the guy is in the proper location? Good luck!
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There's always the chance he can be the hero of a story like this:
https://nypost.com/2024/12/06/us-news/texas-man-michael-howard-claims-he-shot-his-son-after-mistaking-him-for-an-intruder-later-burns-the-body/

Yup. That's "1".

Now tell us about all the people shot by the 24.4 million owners of
the dreaded AR.
--
Cheers,

John B.