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In reply to the discussion: "Nobody wants to take your guns..." [View all]Straw Man
(6,740 posts)36. You certainly give that impression.
Do I think preppers are representative of American gun owners? No, and never said I did.
Then why did you bring them up? More vague allusions and plausible deniability?
Do I think a gun has never saved a life? No, I think guns, on rare occasions do save lives. Often by also taking lives.
Would you take a life to save your own or that of a loved one?
I wasn't referring to you personally when asking who are "you" afraid of.
Ah, so "you" doesn't means "you"? Or is that only when you're called on your offensive bullshit?
Best defense against possible attack is don't present yourself as a target.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. The question is what you do when your precautions have failed and you find yourself in that life-or-death situation.
You're already scared, or you wouldn't be carrying, and the animals can smell your fear.
What a bunch of fantasy-driven crap. "The animals can smell your fear." I think you've watched too many cheesy action movies or read too many cheap novels.
So, you'd better be ready to kill or they'll have that pistol off you in a heartbeat.
It is not necessary to kill to defend oneself with a firearm. Sometimes it isn't even necessary to fire.
I'm trying to give you good advice. Either take it or leave it.
Nothing you have said on this forum indicates to me that your advice has any merit. I will leave it.
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I seriously doubt that gangbangers et al would be treated as an exception
Starboard Tack
Aug 2014
#16
I think it is you who misses the point. And the canard canard again. LOL!
Starboard Tack
Aug 2014
#26
"If there were no guns available, then how would the gangbangers acquire them?"
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2014
#42
it's really going to happen isn't it? we can't even get sensible gun control let alone getting rid
samsingh
Aug 2014
#2
The guns that they are fighting hardest to ban are involved in less than 300 murders/yr.
benEzra
Aug 2015
#55
"Through each war we are in, combatants have become more and more willing to shoot to kill."
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2014
#43
And a liberal criminologist destroys the "Nobody wants to take your guns" meme
pablo_marmol
Aug 2014
#41