Self Defense

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Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

Not every criminal is armed with a gun. Alot more crimes are committed with knives and bludgeoning weapons nowadays.

Got it.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

You misinterpreted what I was trying to convey with the whole "ambush" thing. I was trying to bring the point across that you should always have a back up plan. Locks, while useful, won't stop a determined criminal. All they do is buy you time to ready yourself. There is only so much you can do defensively before you have to go on the offense. Should I go on the offense, I would like to have a weapon that I can easily reach out and touch someone with rather than having to get up close to use a weapon.

Yes I did.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

Saying that locks are good enough seems rather shortsighted. Afterall, if locks did such a good job, we would not have to worry about home invasions. Having a weapon at home is like having an insurance policy; It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

I don’t worry about home invasions, but it has nothing to do with the locks. I even don’t worry if the door is wide open when I’m at home. I really rarely heard of violent robbery and real harm to someone in combination even less.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

You could not be more wrong about that. There is a plethora of recorded cases where weapons have saved people from rape, murder, physical abuse within the family home. I will post some later.

I would like to hear some, and I if a threat or action with an improved weapon, pepper spray or the weapon they carry for self defence had done the same success. I don’t see the “need” for weapons that blow elephants away or rifles for home defence.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

Why should I feel guilt for having something(whether I want or need it)? That is like asking "You have 2 perfectly good feet. Why do you need a car?"

I don’t know why you should, I even don’t know if you own one.
For me it sounds like an excuse to have a big home defence weapon, cause I don’t see the need. Maybe you can change that with the examples you want to post.
I have a car because I would walk 14 hours or 4 hours a day to get to work, depending where (changes sometimes). I need 1 hour to get one way to the city. And I don’t have to carry things I buy.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

1) Do you place such little value on your life that you would rather not own an efficient weapon with excellent standoff?

I don’t place a little value on my life, but I don’t own or ever touched a real gun, only paintball, airgun and things like this. You don’t have to own a gun if you put a vale on life. Some would even think complete the opposite.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

2) If someone broke into your house, can you tell if they were a rapist, serial killer, robber etc.?

I can’t, but I guess in nearly 90% it is a robber, in 5% its family, house mates or friends, and in 5% it’s a stalker.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

3) Are you sure enough of a criminals intentions that you would trust that he would want to only steal your belongings and nothing more?

For robbers 99%, except they want to rob me for ransom or my organs, but not here and not at my home.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

4) What would you do if a psychotic person broke into your house and started threatening you or your family?

I can’t say, I never was in a similar situation. Depends on the way of psychotic, the awareness, kind of threatening, my possibilities and what’s the best or/and fastest way to get out of it with the smallest harm to my family and me.
But projectile weapons could also hit my family, even a well trained SWAT-team or whatever can’t do this without risk, for my family, at close gun combat.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

5) Do you live in Europe?

My irrational paranoia.
From statements I have given in this forum and other info here it is supposable that I have something to do with Europe.