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Gun Control & RKBA

Ilsa

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1. When used for home protection, which I believe

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:36 AM

Oct 2015

is the original reason for owning a gun, it probably tends to work well. Out in public, it's all a crapshoot as to the final outcome: accidentally killing someone with a concealed weapon that goes off, killing the wrong person in self defense, being targeted by other GGWG, or being targeted by police.

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Examples why the "hero-with-a-gun"-fantasy doesn't work: [View all] DetlefK Oct 2015 OP

When used for home protection, which I believe Ilsa Oct 2015 #1

Because the good guy with a gun is not, despite the sneering comments of some... krispos42 Oct 2015 #2

Use of a gun should always be the last resort. Kaleva Oct 2015 #5

Duty to retreat laws are the definition of uncivilized. beevul Oct 2015 #7

That is a given krispos42 Oct 2015 #8

I thought gun banners didn't want CHP holders trying to be hero's??? ileus Oct 2015 #3

Nobody is whining that they should have joined the shooting. DetlefK Oct 2015 #4

Rightly so. Straw Man Oct 2015 #9

You are laboring under an illusion... Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #6