Reply #103: Damn straight [View All]

It may seem paradoxical, but I actually keep firearms for self- and home defense because I'm a fairly peaceful guy. I'm not interested in spending many hours a week developing and maintaining hand-to-hand combat skills to a sufficiently high degree to be able to reliably incapacitate an assailant. Crudely put, I'd rather spend time with my 4 year-old than learning to beat people up.

As I've said before on this forum, if somebody threatens or attempts to inflict violence on me without provocation on my part, I have absolutely no moral obligation to fight on his terms, to give him a "fair" fight. And frankly, if you think that makes me a coward, your moral code is severely fucked up (not to mention "objectively pro-aggressor," to paraphrase George Orwell).