11-30-2018, 01:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-30-2018, 01:44 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-30-2018, 08:38 AM)David Horn Wrote:(11-29-2018, 07:31 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: … I never quite understood why people out on a farm with acres and acres between themselves and the next farmhouse, with any sizeable city 100-odd miles away, need to worry about burglars. And in any case, there are much better ways to protect yourself than guns. We've gone over all these ad infinitum.
I'll have to disagree here. Living in the country is not a panacea, and police response times are long and tenuous. So having a firearm in the house isn't unreasonable. What is unreasonable is the reverse situation, where those rural folks demand that urban folks should not be allowed to limit gun ownership in any way, because it may effect them ever so slightly.
If we can get to universal background checks and, eventually, licensing, registration and mandatory liability insurance, that may be enough. Good luck on that!
You and Bob may be right on that, but it still makes no sense to me. Burglars have less access to houses way out in the country where response times are long. But if a compromise can be worked out between rural and urban needs, that's fine. Unfortunately the right wing doesn't want that.