07-17-2016, 04:50 PM
Something I've begun to notice:
The argument that folks are daily saved by having guns, does work. However, it seems to work almost entirely in situations where the intended victim (who has a gun for self-protection) is pretty much one-on-one with the perp. It really appears to work in that case.
Here in my city, once every few months, someone at home kills an intruder. Occasionally, an attempted car-jack is thwarted.
For myself, as a gun owner, the last place in the world I'd want to be with a drawn gun in my hand is a large crowd where an active shooter starts up. And, as we have seen, in those cases, there have indeed been "good guys with guns" on scene and they did little. Probably because they realized it might be very, very dangerous to do so.
The argument that folks are daily saved by having guns, does work. However, it seems to work almost entirely in situations where the intended victim (who has a gun for self-protection) is pretty much one-on-one with the perp. It really appears to work in that case.
Here in my city, once every few months, someone at home kills an intruder. Occasionally, an attempted car-jack is thwarted.
For myself, as a gun owner, the last place in the world I'd want to be with a drawn gun in my hand is a large crowd where an active shooter starts up. And, as we have seen, in those cases, there have indeed been "good guys with guns" on scene and they did little. Probably because they realized it might be very, very dangerous to do so.
[font=Arial Black]... a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition.[/font]