I would literally die if someone did this to me
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Makes me think of Cassius Clay, guy from the late 1800s who defended his home at the age of 89 with a pistol and a knife. And had a home defense cannon just because.
The plan: shoot first.
The plan: Gun.
Attrition via bullets.
Homeowner: Entrenched with lord knows how much ammo, as much as they can store, and knows their house's layout and choke points.
Attacker(s): Only brought what they can carry. Likely 1-2 mags each. Fog of war in an unknown house.
Place your bets now ladies and gentlemen.
Gun nuts are hilarious. Guy breaks into you house at 3am. Wait, let me go down to the basement gun cabinet..shit forgot the keys...ok, got the gun, loaded it, intruder didn't see or hear anything, wait...forgot the hearing protection so I don't go deaf after the first shot..
The don't show people going deaf on TV or using proper gun storage required by law.
Meanwhile me with a suppressed 300 blackout SBR AR simply tucked out of view in my room in a state with no storage laws and no kids who could find it: "Yee-fucking-haw, choke point is the stairs boys come on up."
Won't wake up the neighbors, might wake up the cats (but only because they'll wake up before I even shoot. Som'bitch is quiet but cats are cats and the break/entry will be loud enough before I even stand up.)
Real big gravy seal energy (out of shape home defense) or tech bro (I’m prepared for a hypothetical end of the world and deluded myself I will live) energy.
Firearms are the great equalizer.
Yeah it equalizes your chances of killing your family by mistake to roughly the same as a home invader killing them.
It's more dangerous to have a swimming pool.
Truth. The day my swimming pool started packing was the day I left home.
The risks of shooting your family with a swimming pool are amazingly small though.
This is really only close to true statistically if you're under 4, thank fuck America isn't shooting many toddlers yet (but the number isn't zero). There are about 1200 deaths a year in domestic pools in the US and 46000 gun deaths.
A) you're way off...3500-4000 drown in the USA a year. We'll call that accidents.
B) accidental gun deaths per year are around 450-500...
You wanna do statics, do them right and stop making shit up. Your anti-gun propaganda you drink has always had to make shit up to get people to believe their crap. No having a firearm in your home is not magically more deadly than owning a pool. Period.
...3500-4000 drown in the USA a year. We'll call that accidents.
B) accidental gun deaths per year are around 450-500...
Yeesh. Another gun-clutcher.
Drowning deaths in America includes every kind of drowning death, and so lake and boating and surfing and oil rig and commercial fishing accidents pump that number up.
You wanna do statics, do them right and stop making shit up.
Hypocrisy is fun. And the word is statistics.
Yesh another anti gun nut who thinks that we should disarm ourselves while we have fascist in power...
See my other comment as well to your other points.
OK rambo, how many fascists have you shot so far...
The fun thing about statistics is they dont apply to single individuals.
A) includes drownings in bathtubs an natural water (where majority of drownings happen) B) so people who died to domestic violence or suicide are safe are they?
"You wanna do statics, do them right and stop making shit up."
Source for majority of drowning deaths non-pool related: https://www.statista.com/chart/34873/rates-of-unintentional-drowning-deaths-and-drowning-locations/?srsltid=AfmBOoreeroH378wf2OA0D3nU9ZbuMfzFgmO1VcicvcFUwRF2G1scUA_
Source for actual total gun deaths, because danger doesn't just mean accidents: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/
Suicide isn't an accident and neither is domestic violence. You don't accidentally off yourself and you can't accidentally have domestic violence. You also can't suicide via water either...well not without a ton of work.
You're bullshit stat is about how having a gun magically makes you more likely to be a victim of gun violence, which is not correct.
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/160/10/929/140858
Why do you keep talking about "magic" and "accidents". Just because you don't want deadly weapons to be a risk factor doesn't mean that they aren't. It's just a fact. And an obvious and intuitive one at that.
Because the point is that drowning is mainly via an accident. You don't accidentally suicide yourself. And your link is really "no shit" stats. You can't kill yourself and be in the "suicide with a firearm" if you don't use a fucking firearm. These are "water is wet" stats that are pointless.
And yet you keep claiming water isn't wet.
Naa I'm claiming that you're suggesting that it's a monsoon when it's more like a mist.
Tell that to the 46000 victims a year Alex Jones.
Of which 2/3rds are suicides...which would be preventable if we had single payer in this country, but instead of using the political capital on that, the anti-2a groups burn it on a topic that doesn't have nearly the support that they think it does.
And for the record I'm not suggesting anything. I'm giving you facts and sources. Which you respond to with nothing more than a dismissal of avoidable death and violence as not important. It's pretty weird honestly.
I gave facts, you provided a survey.
Peer reviewed journals articles are not "a survey". That's the highest standard of proof we have. You're been repeatedly demonstrated false and just stick your head in the sand. I'm out as that this point seems like bad faith argument.
I remember now that this BS comes from freakonomics. The irony of that bastion of "contrarian thought" is that so many people seem to have lost their ability to think critically while reading it.
I'm not talking about swimming pools I'm talking about the risks of shooting your family while trying to protect them being larger then the infinitesimal chance that you might John Wick some home invaders and save the day.
I always think of Bill Burr talking about home invasions, and he's like if you need one just get a pea shooter. You don't need an automatic weapon that will shoot a hole through the perp, your daughters room, and your neighbors dog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaLTWW_yEG4
In your own home you dont really need a solid plan, you just need to be willing enough to really fuck up another human being. In the heat of the moment, quite a lot of us are inclined to show restraint and mercy where we would receive none.
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