05-03-2018, 10:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2018, 10:48 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-03-2018, 06:45 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(05-03-2018, 05:17 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Well, you have a right to choose to have a dog for defense like you seem to prefer and the right choose to have a gun for defense like me and the right to choose to have both them like me too. Thank God, we still live in America.
The problem is that both factions are trying to force their life style and approach to defense on the other. The blues seek criminals who cannot acquire a weapon. The reds seek the traditional ability to defend one's self, family and community. Both are desirable goals from my point of view, but many see the weapons as available or unavailable to all. There is a perception that if the other guy's goal is achieved, one is frustrated in achieving one's own goal.
I might have that perception, and I suppose therefore you can say that "there is a perception" of that, even though I recognize the need to compromise. But on the blue side, as the blue side and I keep pointing out to no apparent avail, you can hardly find any gun control advocates who want to force their lifestyle on the other side. They still support the second amendment and non-military gun ownership for qualified folks. Meanwhile, the reds (and especially the NRA leadership and all who support their policies) DO want to stop people who live in cities awash in guns from regulating them.
There is this catch, though; the blues also advocate that the guns be stored where criminals can't readily steal them. That is the upshot of "The blues seek criminals who cannot acquire a weapon." And that makes it harder for a gun to provide defense. I suppose a dog's or an alarm's warning might avail some possibility of time for unlocking and loading a weapon for defense. It's still a risky and unpredictable situation.
Risky to your self, your family, and a perceived intruder who may turn out to be harmless, and thus risky for you becoming a criminal for shooting him or her. And risky for you too if you lose self-control or your ethics and you become a criminal yourself. Risky too whenever the gun becomes unlocked and loaded for any other reason.