re: #462 Uncle Obdicut

Why do you need some laden term?

I’ve shot a gun four times in five years. Saying we both shoot is disingenuous.

Yeah, most people don’t need guns to defend themselves. Are you really arguing most people do?

My answer to that “need” is that you get to define that for you and your family. You do not get to define that for others, who through training and safety largely remove themselves from the risk the overall numbers would imply. I think most of us will make the right choice given the data and opportunity.

Self defense with a gun works out well tens of thousands of times a year. That represents a defined & provable need by a very practical measure.

I argue we all get to make that pro or anti gun choice for ourselves, both morally and legally. Would you say that is wrong or untrue?