Thread: Yet another shooting incident in the states

Originally Posted by Tussock

Two women get left to either find out for themselves if intruders are still in their house, or just leave and give the burglers all the time they need to clean out the family home. Those were the two options they were given.

So as long as your home gets invaded and no one turns up, why should anyone buy this "leave it to the professionals" nonsense.

You can't have it both ways. You can't ask people not to defend themselves when their police force leaves a lot to be desired. Burglers get no attention and burglers become home invaders. Then it's too late.

Also, your average citizen would struggle to be worse with a fire arm than a police officer. We have all seen the footage of a half dozen cops trying (and failing) to shoot a dog that's right in front of them. Whatever they are taught must be barely a hair better than holding it back to front.

It's not about people actually shooting anyone. It's about prevention. It's what Cam said. People would think twice about attacking that slight little elderly person or that woman if they thought they were armed. Current measures to prevent crime don't seem to be achieving much. I don't think it's an unreasonable proposition.

Instead of just taking guns off law abiding citizens and not even inconveniencing criminals, give more guns to law abiding citizens. Numerous examples of attempted massacres in concealed carry areas where the people just shot the wood be massacrer (I think that's a real word).

As per the logic of taking them away, do the potential benefits not outweighs the inconvenience to a few?

You can't go and shoot people because they are in your house, it would be murder. Yes you should wait for the Police.

All of the Police officers I have seen are quite capable with firearms, more than enough for our average situation.

The criminals are far more prepared to use force against the lady than the lady will against them, putting concealable pistols into the law abiding publics hand inevitably leads them to being in the criminals hands as well and they are far more prepared to use them. We don't have the gun culture of the USA so few people would carry even if available.

The inevitable repercussions out weigh the possible benefits.