Reply #4: The idiocy of your argument [View All]

[EstimatedProphet]

Now if someone breaks into your house you will not know whether he has a gun or not, pretty unlikely anyway if they know you are at home. So if you shoot and kill this guy you are pretty much a murderer. How many times does the drunk come home to the wrong house to get his brains blown out? It is very common for people to try to enter the wrong house for a whole myriad of reasons.

How many times does a drunk break into a house assuming it's his own? Do you really expect that someone coming through a window, or trying to force a door, is going to be there because he's confused about it being his house? And, even if something as absurd as that happened, assuming that the gun owner is simply going to shoot immediately is a bit of a stretch.

Also the guy is coming in and you are then going to go for your safe where you have locked up the guns. Doesn't it make more sense to call the police? Isn't this much faster?

Must be a pretty hard to open safe, if it is going to take several minutes to open. Do you expect the police to show up within 30 seconds of calling? What neighborhood do you live in?

One thing about guns, if you and the attacker have guns, you have to shoot well before the facts are in. And if your attacker has a gun, the dead guy is the unlucky one not the bad guy. In the best of worlds this self defense crap works half the time, the other half you are dead.

In the situation you prefer, the dead guy is you 100% of the time.

And the odds of someone coming at you with a gun when you have gun at the ready are pretty low, especially when your guns are locked up in the safe.

You just reversed your argument.

A far better defense would be to outlaw guns to greatly lower the chances of a gun coming in the house.

So you don't think there's ever stolen guns from legitimate agencies? Or do you think the police shouldn't be armed too? If they have to have guns to do their jobs, why wouldn't they get stolen?

On Edit: It is established that those that have guns in their houses are much more likely to blow out the brains of someone they know than a stranger.

Established where?