I do have an Australian bias where the threat of home invasions especially those with gun crime is near nil. When I speak, it is ultimately from a place like that. I just find it so tragic when people known and loved by someone are killed by accident because they got spooked. Like a wife coming home late at night (expected) and the man in a half sleep/awake state sees a silhouette of a person and unloads
https://abcnews.go.com/US/michigan-man-shoots-wife-mistaking-intruder-sheriff/story?id=64317617
You buy a gun because you a told it can protect you and your family. In so many cases, the guns end up doing the opposite.
The whole argument about the common pleb being able to rise up against the government or whatever if it gets out of line is redundant anyway. You dont take a knife to a gun fight.... What good is a gun in a drone fight?
I'm happy to be considered wrong and I fully understand the mindset of someone living in America is different to that of living in Australia.
I agree about the difference in America vs Australia. If I lived there I would feel comfortable with just a quality knife and bat by my bed.
One of my points to my last post is we are both men and both have some amount of alpha mentality (and much stronger than women) so we would be more prone and less scared to take a fight hand to hand. A woman alone at night, when high 90 percent chance if they have an intruder it would be a male much stronger than them. Plus you have to add the sexual assault factor.
Though, I absolutely hate it when people get a gun and don't take it seriously. You should get extensive and continued training when you decide to take the responsibility of a gun. A man or women with no training does not protect their family, they put them at a liability and danger.
Also, as far as being groggy from sleep, I agree with that. That is why in that crap house I was taking about (which is also when I got my CHL and started taking the sim classes) I reinforced the outside doors so they couldn't be kicked in (at least with less than 20 kicks) and took other security measures. One of my biggest fears was having someone sneak in when I was sound asleep or break in and be at my bed in a few seconds before I could wake and arm myself. This was all training in those sim courses. If someone broke in, and I was in a deep sleep, they wouldn't be in before I was awake and armed.
Training is also how I was able to have people at gun point under control, waiting for the police without having to actually shoot them. Though don't get me wrong, if they got out of hand I would shoot a critical shot and not think twice about it, I was protecting not just myself but my family. Fortunately it didn't get that far.
I have also said many times, protection against tyranny is the dumbest shit now. It was definitely a thing when the military and populous used the same weapons. Now though, entire cities can be destroyed with one guy in a room 2000 miles away. How do civilians fight that with a pistol or rifle?
So in short...in America, I 100 percent agree with people having a gun with extensive training and being mentally capable of handling the pressure. If that is a no for both, don't give them one. I also support more tests for mental fortitude
The whole argument about the common pleb being able to rise up against the government or whatever if it gets out of line is redundant anyway.
Military can not be used against the people.
We only need to take out the police.
Oh they can 100 percent, it would just be an unprecedented act. I am sure that is why there are a certain amount of NATO troops at each military base sense tests show only a small minority of soldiers would kill civilians of their own country if ordered.