Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles

On 12/29/2024 10:05 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 12/28/2024 8:17 PM, John B. wrote:

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

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"Coulda, woulda, shoulda..."
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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.
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Deal with it.

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Well, of course it wasn't in "America" ...

 And I didn't say you were. I said you were an American.
 

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.

 John, are you pretending that if it had been your house, your quick draw skills would have made a difference? Really?
 

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.

 IOW, you grew up in an area where people used guns only for hunting. And you repeatedly use that area as "proof" that guns in the home are not dangerous. But now you tell us about an area where guns in the home were or are dangerous.
 

Mr Slocumb didn't say if that Georgia area had negligent discharges or if those were defensive use.
And to your comment about New England 70 years ago versus our modern urban post-apocalyptic neighborhoods, please review Mr Otis MacDonald:
https://reason.com/2014/04/06/otis-mcdonald-rip-the-man-who-got-the-se/
https://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=7976
https://www.britannica.com/event/McDonald-v-City-of-Chicago
Or as some write, situations vary. As do humans and their behavior within those situations.
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