I can think of three serial killers in my own city who broke into people’s homes to rape and murder them in my lifetime. Here’s my take: if someone breaks into my house to steal my TV, they value that TV over their own life. I have a perfectly good car to steal from in the driveway if they want a low risk option.
And how much people died because they had firearms at home in your city during your lifetime? Buying a weapon to protect your family is like bathing them in Roundup to protect them from dengue fever. Dengue is a real danger, but less so than a Roundup bath…
It’s not as if the alternative were “a gun or no protection.” If you’re afraid of dengue fever, you buy a mosquito net: it’s just as effective, if not more so, and less dangerous. If you’re afraid of serial killers, you install proper locks and an alarm system. You don’t expose your family to a real danger to protect them from a possible one; that’s absurd.
Never looked into the numbers, but probably a lot. In my ideal world, there would be no guns in anyone’s houses. But there are, and someone breaking into a house in to steal a TV knows that.
I can think of three serial killers in my own city who broke into people’s homes to rape and murder them in my lifetime. Here’s my take: if someone breaks into my house to steal my TV, they value that TV over their own life. I have a perfectly good car to steal from in the driveway if they want a low risk option.
And how much people died because they had firearms at home in your city during your lifetime? Buying a weapon to protect your family is like bathing them in Roundup to protect them from dengue fever. Dengue is a real danger, but less so than a Roundup bath…
It’s not as if the alternative were “a gun or no protection.” If you’re afraid of dengue fever, you buy a mosquito net: it’s just as effective, if not more so, and less dangerous. If you’re afraid of serial killers, you install proper locks and an alarm system. You don’t expose your family to a real danger to protect them from a possible one; that’s absurd.
Never looked into the numbers, but probably a lot. In my ideal world, there would be no guns in anyone’s houses. But there are, and someone breaking into a house in to steal a TV knows that.
That would be an understandable argument if there wasn’t alternatives. There are.