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Date: 12/13/2009 4:56:42 PM
Author: HopeDream
I can understand a gun for hunting, I can understand owning a gun for the challenge of target practice and the community of belonging to a gun club. I can understand holding a gun in the service of your countrie''s military, or as a police officer.
But living every day with the fear that someone is going to break into your home and threaten you?
Wow!
I don''t want to live where you live if this is such a real possibility that you own a gun for the purposes of shooting/threatening another human being.
Do you realy expect that one day you will have to shoot another person? (because if the assailant doesn''t back down, then that''s what will happen).
What if the house-breaker has a gun too?
I have no argument for or against owning guns, I''m just curious about this reality of absolute fear.
We actually has an attempted break in a few months back... We locked ourselves in the bedroom and got out the gun. I called 911 and DH was ready- if ANYONE made an attempt to come up our stairs, they wouldn''t have made it past the landing. Of course, I hollered downstairs to whomever may have been in the house that we were armed and would shoot, so if they chose to come upstairs, that''s their poor decision making.