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(JD) · Jan 30, 2010, 03:36 PM

The idea is safety in your home.
If you feel less safe because there's a firearm there, that's not right, imo.
However, base decisions upon accurate information.
Less homes with weapons equals higher crime rates.
Does that mean your home? I don't know.
I know it meant a lot to me after the natural disaster of Hurricane Andrew... when there was no local law and your firearm was all you had for protection from the looters that did have firearms.
I'm pretty sure once the looters knew that "everyone" left in our neighborhood was armed, they quit coming.

Quote:

The first thing I ever read arguing why gun control actually creates more violent crime was a chapter in Larry Elder’s amazing book, The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America. Why is this so? Because criminals aren’t going to stop using guns if the government bans them. If they’re perfectly willing to break the law by robbing and/or murdering, why would they obey any other law? Only law-abiding citizens are going to dutifully give up their guns. The result: Only bad guys have guns, and crime goes up because they know their victims are unarmed; the compaaassionate and caaaring government is the one who unarmed them! If a criminal thinks his potential victim might be armed with his/her own firearm, and assumes that victim knows perfectly well how to use it, he will probably think twice about committing that crime.

http://vocalminority.typepad.com/blo...an-lifted.html

I don't agree with everything the NRA says, lock stock and barrel...
but I have personal experience to back up much of what they say.

Maybe you two could compromise? A nice shotgun is a good home security weapon, and easier to think about shooting than a handgun. Actually, it may be more effective because criminals often just have to hear the chaCHA of the cocking mechanism and they disappear on their own. :ROTLFMAO: