re: #145 celticdragon

Firearms are used to protect people every day, and quite often by private citizens. As I tried to say above, I think it is dishonest to compare modern firearms to more tradition weapons like knives and clubs when it comes to murder.

Some one on that twitter thread said that an NFL linebacker could have killed his girlfriend in any number of ways.

The problem with counterfactual musing is that when you change the variables, you have uncertainty…and with most other means of murder (possibly with the exception of secret poisoning), the girlfriend would have had a much better chance of escape and survival.

When someone with 250 pounds of muscle on their side wants to kill you they don’t really need a gun. Once he decided to kill her she was dead, regardless of what weapon he chose, or as that tweet points out he didn’t even need to use a weapon he could have simply battered or strangled her.

There is no escape or survival if you don’t see it coming, and unfortunately many times people don’t. Either because the killer is too good at hiding his/her intent or because the victim is in self denial that the violence will/could ever escalate to that point.