Quote Originally Posted by moral-man View Post
The fact of the matter is that there is not a single good reason why any person that does not work in the armed forces or the police should possess a lethal weapon. In terms of self defense there are methods just as effective as guns, including pepper sprays, tasers or even riot guns.

All you get from keeping a gun in your house is that kids find them and accidentally blow their brains out, given that their parents haven't already shot them at night because you thought they were burglars (both things that routinely seem to happen in the USA).

And even in the case that you had an armed robber in your house, you'd probably still be better off without a gun. That's simply because, the robber would be more inclined to use his gun if he saw you armed. and since he has less prohibitions to kill a person, he'd probably be the first to shoot.

well, maybe I'm beeing little too assumptious here. let me know
I don't know, I can't think of a least one instance where the sound of a slide being pulled back on a pump shotgun scared a crook intent on doing bodily harm to a friend of mine to simply turn around and leave, whoops I mean rapidly leave. I really can imagine that the sound of taking the Off on a can of mace would scare somebody.

and when the crazies that are out there today, it doesn't make you need to rescue some of them whether or not you cooperate, they're going to kill you anyway. I would much rather die with a gun in my hand, then with my hands in the air, at least I have a chance!