SHOOTING at the OLYMPICS

[Outlaw]

Originally Posted by JG4_Helofly

@ outlaw For your, taking a life doesn't seem to be a big deal. If someone is in your house: fire at will. What do you make of all the people who died because of the use of a gun in a defensiv situation? I am talking about unarmed burglars, people standing near by etc.

Bystanders hit by legal defensive use of firearms is VERY low. MUCH lower than the number of people who would have been killed otherwise.

Originally Posted by JG4_Helofly

You can't just kill anything that might want to attack you. I don't know the law in the US, but here your life must really be treatened in order to use deadly force.

True, you can't kill anyone that might want to attack you, but you can kill anyone who reasonably poses a threat. See my reply to Zorin.

Originally Posted by JG4_Helofly

Especially in close quarter (like a house) a gun is not the best option.

Based on WHAT?

Originally Posted by JG4_Helofly

As for your question, I can only say this. I didn't advocate the interdiction of guns. But as I wrote earlier: using a gun for defense is not the way to go for many reasons I mentionned before. It will ony result in more death.

What a cop-out. Based on your non-answer I can only assume that you afraid to admit that you think it's better that myself, the child, and her mother were dead.

Originally Posted by JG4_Helofly

You must be a very scared man. Maybe you should think about the fact that you have a greater chance to die in a car accident then to get shot.

I'm fully aware of crash related deaths. In fact, the fact that car crashes kill 4 TIMES as many people as guns do supports my argument that the anti-gun lobby is ridiculously uneducated. If they were not, they would be lobbying for stricter controls on who is issued a driver's license and more harsh penalties for moving violations. But they do not. So they are ignoring a MUCH MORE DEADLY THREAT to go after firearms.

Originally Posted by JG4_Helofly

As you see we won't agree on this topic. So let just agree to disagree.

I don't agree to that!!

--Outlaw.