- #36
devil-fire
I think there are some people who are enchanted by the power wielded by someone who has taken a life without themselves having an intimate experience of how sad it is when a mother's son, or a daughter's father dies suddenly. It's kind of like when you watch a James Bond movie and bond is wasting tons of bad guys and it's great because the hero of the movie is getting what he wants and it almost becomes a profound experience of perseverance when so many people try so hard to stop him from achieving his goals and fail to stop him by going so far as to pay with their lives.
For a person to die is tragic, but to kill with purpose, for justice and for what is right, that is venerable. If you don't share the same sense of purpose though, it's just tyranny.
This is off topic and on the subject of gun ownership but I couldn't resist.
For everyone who has a gun (or guns) for home defense, how much money did you spend on it (or them)? how much time did you spend training to use it? How much money have you put toward securing windows and doors? How much time have you spend discussing a plan of escape from your home in the event of a home invasion? I ask because I think if If my home was being invaded I would want to avoid a confrontation between my self and the invader or the invader and my family. I think my first course of action would be to get in contact with family members to be sure they are OK and know what the situations is and try to get everyone out of the house.
The way I see it, the alliterative is to try to kill or maim the invader like I'm the Terminator defending Shawn Conner. I think realistically there are so many things that could go wrong in this situation. What if the invader has his senses more adjusted to the situation then I do considering I was asleep 90 seconds ago and he shoots me before I shoot him? The only people left in my house then is my oblivious family and a murderer. What if a bullet missed or ricochets off something and hits a family member or myself? What if in my sleepy stooper I only think my home is being invaded but really a family member just tripped and knocked a vase to the ground. What if it really is a thieving drug addict and I do shoot them through the head and I just have to pick bits of skull fragment from a 15 year old out of my carpet for my Saturday chores?
The last one is a vary best case scenario when it comes to the use of a gun for a home invasion. It is the scenario where my family was never really in any danger to begin with and where a minimum amount of damage was done to me, my family or my home and where the whole act of using the gun on the invader worked perfectly.
For a person to die is tragic, but to kill with purpose, for justice and for what is right, that is venerable. If you don't share the same sense of purpose though, it's just tyranny.
This is off topic and on the subject of gun ownership but I couldn't resist.
For everyone who has a gun (or guns) for home defense, how much money did you spend on it (or them)? how much time did you spend training to use it? How much money have you put toward securing windows and doors? How much time have you spend discussing a plan of escape from your home in the event of a home invasion? I ask because I think if If my home was being invaded I would want to avoid a confrontation between my self and the invader or the invader and my family. I think my first course of action would be to get in contact with family members to be sure they are OK and know what the situations is and try to get everyone out of the house.
The way I see it, the alliterative is to try to kill or maim the invader like I'm the Terminator defending Shawn Conner. I think realistically there are so many things that could go wrong in this situation. What if the invader has his senses more adjusted to the situation then I do considering I was asleep 90 seconds ago and he shoots me before I shoot him? The only people left in my house then is my oblivious family and a murderer. What if a bullet missed or ricochets off something and hits a family member or myself? What if in my sleepy stooper I only think my home is being invaded but really a family member just tripped and knocked a vase to the ground. What if it really is a thieving drug addict and I do shoot them through the head and I just have to pick bits of skull fragment from a 15 year old out of my carpet for my Saturday chores?
The last one is a vary best case scenario when it comes to the use of a gun for a home invasion. It is the scenario where my family was never really in any danger to begin with and where a minimum amount of damage was done to me, my family or my home and where the whole act of using the gun on the invader worked perfectly.