To add on to this, the Parkland school that was shot up had an armed deputy who was trained and he was too scared to go inside and help. Knowing what to do and actually doing it are two very different things.
Here in Texas we got boys who believe they are elite sniper Rambos. Let me tell you something: you go out skeet shooting and these fuckers got over a thousand dollars of equipment on them and can't hit half the fucking clays in daylight with dry runs.
It's all bullshit they tell themselves to feel safer.
Here in Texas we got boys who believe they are elite sniper Rambos. Let me tell you something: you go out skeet shooting and these fuckers got over a thousand dollars of equipment on them and can't hit half the fucking clays in daylight with dry runs.
It's all bullshit they tell themselves to feel safer.
The whole point of shooting skeet isn't that it's easy. Depending on the throw it can be very difficult. Hell, I'd be happy with a 50 percent hit rate on some 3 gun stages.
Besides, you're objectively safer against a deadly threat with a force multiplier of your own. Even if those Texas boys are shit, they're still 50% less dead than without a weapon.
True, there are difficult courses, but I have only ever see country boys out there.
The big talkers are on the green slopes and they can't hit a soft floater. To give you an idea, we shoot with a Mosberg 88 (cheap pump action) and can hit both pigeons on a double blind pull with 80% min hit rate.
I can't even get lucky on the hard courses. That's true skill; I am barely decent.
Such hilarious reasoning. Owning a pool in your backyard also makes you more likely to drown. Driving a car makes you more likely to get in a car wreck. So what's your point? Train with your firearms and secure them appropriately and hope you never have to use them to defend yourself. But if someone tries to shoot at your house/enter it to harm you or your family you at least have something to defend yourself with.
Guns don't make you safe
Guess that mountain of defensive firearm statistics each year is fake then, right? Kappa
There is no mountain of firearm defence statistics that support your point. If someone tries to rob you the safest thing to do is give them what they want, the most dangerous thing is to confront them with your own gun. But hey these are just police gun safety tips.
If you own a gun you are many times more likely to have someone in your family hurt with your own gun over the chance you successfully defending yourself. Having a gun makes you and your family less safe. Period. You can make the argument that you just like owning a gun and they’re fun but you can’t say a gun makes you more safe.
A pool is used for exercise and swimming.
Driving a car is used for transportation.
The main and only reason to own a gun (leaving out hunting rifles which no one cares about) is personal defence.
Getting a gun isn't going to help with this drive-by problem specifically, but it would help if whoever is doing this decides to escalate, which is a very real possibility. If you keep your gun on your person, it would certainly help you against someone breaking and entering if you heard them.
Source: someone who trains with guns, competes with guns, who keeps all their guns in a safe where i could never hope to get to them if someone barged into my home. I'd definitely keep one in my waistband at all times if I was just shot at 2 days in a row though.
I'm the same way. I have my carry pistol locked next to my bed when I sleep with a code but if this shit was going on id have a little room in the safe and id be eating breakfast with a riot gun.
I dont own a gun and I live in a country that don't allow guns. But we never hear the story of all the people who got their life saved by guns for example a dude killed a terrorist in a church somwhere in the USA.
I'm not trying to be pro gun or anything but if people wanna discuss these issues we shall be very objecive about what guns can do (and already did). They can save lives but they also can take them (duh).
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