DaButt
Wednesday 28th January 2009 4:35am
14,722 posts
Quote: Geoff Mutton @ January 27 2009, 11:18 PM GMT
Isn't gun ownership similar to nuclear armament?
If your adversary believes you're armed, they're less likely to threaten you and you feel more secure with that.
Absolutely. From what I've read and heard from many UK residents, home-invasion robberies (crooks entering an occupied dwelling) and random physical assaults on the street are not uncommon. We have plenty of break-ins here, but the burglars almost always choose a building that they've determined to be unoccupied because they're worried that Mr. and Mrs. Homeowner will blow their heads off with Daddy's shotgun.
Most home invasions here take place in drug dealers' houses where the bad guys expect to find the other bad guys armed as well.
There's a very good chance that the nice old schoolteacher in line next to you at the grocery store is carrying a pistol in her purse. It's a deterrent that keeps a lot of street thugs at bay.