03-23-2018, 06:59 PM
(03-21-2018, 11:50 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-21-2018, 08:11 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The points being, that it has in fact often happened that a gun owner HAS shot a neighbor or other non-dangerous person by mistake. And second, a burglar does not threaten your life, only your property, while you would be executing him without trial. And third, of course, as has been made clear, it is OUR side that upholds American values, NOT yours.Mistakes happen. Point taken and accepted as a known danger associated with gun ownership. However, I also accept mistakes happen with automobiles and accept it as a danger associated with automobile owners.
Mistakes with automobiles that don't involve a human as the object of collision often result in property destruction and not in lethal or crippling injuries. OK, I may be neglecting car-deer accidents common where I live, and one that I barely avoided this morning. Few people intend to do harm with a motor vehicle. Paradoxically the automobile may be the best friend of a beaten spouse.
Quote:Why are accidents and suicides related to guns lumped in with the gun deaths related to gun violence? I keep hearing liberals using vague statistics associated with gun deaths as if they're all related to gun violence when they're not.
I do not know whether suicide by firearm is any less violent than some other means or any more objectionable. But suicide by firearm is usually swifter.
Quote:How do you know a burglar isn't going to threaten my life or the life of someone else? How do you know which burglar is dangerous and which one is not? Me, I wouldn't claim to know their full intent.
You don't want to encounter a burglar. Burglars are often rapists as well as thieves. Advice that I saw on home-invasion burglaries was to treat them as fires -- just get out of the situation because those burglaries are similarly dangerous. But this said, most burglars are cowards, and little so deters a burglar as four horrid canine fangs -- let alone multiple sets of four horrid canine fangs -- with great bite force behind them.
Quote:I wouldn't take the time to ask them and I wouldn't assume that they're only interested in property or assume that they're going to be decent either.
The only appropriate deal involving a burglar is a plea bargain.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.