re: #8 GOPHostage#25698724
65,000 times a year firearm defense works out just fine.
So thatās why the US has such a low murder rate compared to less armed societies? Oh wait,
Maybe adding more guns means more gun related outcomes - some good, some bad but overall not positive
re: #8 GOPHostage#25698724
Why would the gun have to come out in an instant?
To be useful it has to be assessable near enough instantly in an unforeseen situation - yet secured well enough to prevent theft/accidental discharge/child play discharge.
Thatās actually really difficult, in the home it may well be possible (and should be required - gun nuts love to point to Swiss gun ownership without acknowledging the requirements on secure storage)
But as the Washington Navy Yard shooting showed, even the military has issues keeping weapons close enough to hand but simultaneously out of harmās way.
re: #8 GOPHostage#25698724
Lets not call reality fiction.
Letās not call fiction reality - guns are not fucking magic
re: #8 GOPHostage#25698724
If it were all like the movies our cops could be unarmed like the bobbies in Britain. Not realistic at all.
Iām a Brit - the ābobbiesā do not all ride bicycles two-by-two
I think the restrictions on guns imposed after the Hungerford massacre here went too far - typical politicianās knee-jerk populist move - but in truth itās had no effect on me and my liberties, though a gun-nut friend had to give up his hand-guns
(Actually remembering how we used to run around with a .303 as kids that we āborrowedā occasionally, maybe the tightening of rules on gun lockers isnāt such a bad idea after all)
I grew up in a rural area around guns, and enjoy shooting - but even if I owned one now the idea of carrying it around everywhere would be a pain - Iāve got enough crap to cart aboutā¦ā¦.
ā¦.anyway Iāll stop now because one thing Iāve learned is that arguing about gun control is a mugās game on US sites - either way - itās a little too āTruthyā of an issue (hope this doesnāt come over as patronising) my #7 post wasnāt serious for that reason
BTW it now seems that several off-duty officers (5-8!) may have be involved in some way with this incident, so even more WTF