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Originally posted by PlawsWorth
Risking your life for your family is a good thing, though a baseball bat and a phone is proberly better.
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Seems more dangerous to me to use a blunt weapon. At least with a gun you can confront with someone and scare them off. If you use a club, it's much more likely that the criminal will overpower you or use a better weapon himself.
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Also investing in better locks etc to ensure the thief doesn't get in the house from the first start.
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This seems a bit like the "instead of having abortions, use better birth control" argument. Locks don't keep everyone out. I see nothing wrong, in theory, of having a second level of defense.
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But if you are to have a firearm, having in put in a safe, unloaded with the ammunition/magazine at another place should be quite fundamental.
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It certainly seems like common sense, but the problem with this is that it prevents the use of the weapon as protection. Though I do think all guns should be locked up somehow.
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Moore also says he is a member of the NRA and he doesn't want to forbid people right to own a gun, it's more that if your ownly reason is to protect yourself in your home, there are better means of doing it and that the right people should have the firearms and a child between 0-15 should be able to get a firearm easiler than he get's milk.
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If the gun owner is an idiot, then yes. Unfortunately, some of them are idiots, and people die. I think the best remedy is some sort of government-required training for handguns. If it's much harder to get handguns, we could at least expect far fewer accidents.
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