Lord Larehip

I've been saying for how many posts now that you will know the person who kills you? You all keep saying I'm talking out my ass despite posting a source for every single point I've made--none of which you've read, of course--and yet somehow I'm the one who is ignoring facts.

Virtually every crime that will be committed against you in your lifetime will be by someone who knew you. While a thief could break into your home at random, in all likelihood, it's someone who has been in your house or it's a stranger acting on information he got from someone who has been in your house.

Keeping a gun in the home carries a murder risk 2.7 times greater than not keeping one, according to a study by Arthur Kellermann. The National Rifle Association has fiercely attacked this study, but it remains valid despite its criticisms. The study found that people are 21 times more likely to be killed by someone they know than a stranger breaking into the house. Half of the murders were over arguments or romantic triangles. The study also found that the increased murder rate in gun-owning households was entirely due to an increase in gun homicides only, not any other murder method. It further found that gun-owning households saw an increased murder risk by family or intimate acquaintances, not by strangers or non-intimate acquaintances. The most straightforward explanation is that the presence of a gun increases the possibility that a normal family fight or drinking binge will become deadly. No other explanation fits the above facts.

A gun in the home increases personal safety

Women are raped by strangers a lot, sure, but most are raped by people they knew. According to the link below, 2/3 of the women who are raped knew their rapist. Women have more justification to be armed than men because they are overwhelmingly the victims of sexual assault but even then it wouldn't do them much good. Odds are, they will be raped by someone they know and trust or will be drugged and completely helpless. Children are virtually always molested by people they know and often by people they are related to.

The Offenders | RAINN | Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network

This is why arming ourselves to the teeth hasn't rid us of a huge murder rate in this country--we're so worried about being killed by a stranger (and that murder rate has actually dropped) but being armed INCREASES your chances of being killed by a family member, close friend or your own stupid fumbly fingers which is exactly what comprises the vast majority of gun homicides in this country. The stats don't lie which is why you won't look at them.

Yes. If you live in a gang and drug infested ghetto, then, yes, you probably need to arm yourself even though it won't significantly raise your chances of not getting killed but since you stand a better chance of getting killed by a stranger in bad area you may as well do what you can. But outside of a ghetto, you stand very little chance of being killed by a stranger. The Uniform Crime Report compiled by the FBI states that taken altogether, the average American has a 0.000054 chance of being murdered per year. In an average lifetime, about a 0.00378 chance. Based on a population of 300 million people, you stand a 1 in 1.134 million chance of being murdered in your lifetime.

To illustrate this, suppose I laid out 1.134 million dollar bills end to end. how far would the chain stretch? A dollar bill measures about 6 and 3/16 inches in length so a chain of 1.134 million would stretch about 108 miles. Now my proposal to you is that one of those dollar bills has a stamp on it that says "WINNER!" If you pick that dollar bill, you win all of them. So now you have to decide where along that 108-mile stretch you want to stop and snatch up a dollar bill. What are the odds that you will pick the one that has "WINNER!" stamped on it? THAT is your odds of being murdered in this country and then if we lay the condition of being murdered by a stranger only, the odds are increased by at least 3 times that--IOW 3.2 million dollar bills laid out over a 325-mile stretch. So even with the horrible, crime-ridden areas we have in this nation, you stand an exceedingly small chance of needing a gun for defense in most areas of the nation. The amount of guns available simply can't be justified by the tiny odds of being murdered by a stranger, it only increases your odds of being murdered under the usual condition--by someone you know.

One time my ship was off the coast of Puerto Rico and we fired a missile at a derelict ship anchored off the coast of Africa. We hit it dead on. THAT is how accurate an ordinary missile is. So if a ship fires a missile at your little safehouse and you're 500 miles inland, say your prayers. And all your little AR15s are useless. Then there is all the air power they can rain down on you. Satellites that will track your every move. You have no chance. Knock off with this fighting tyranny stuff. Not only will lose a fight with the govt forces, you don't want an assault rifle for that reason--you want one because you want one. Just admit it. But stop handing people this tyranny s-hit.