Reply #10: That's a personal choice, and I respect your choice on that basis [View All]

... but then you also have to accept the corrollary (sp?) that if you are not prepared to use deadly force to protect your family or yourself then you have to accept the fact that you or your family may have to die for that principle.

You can take every reasonable precaution, have dogs, good locks, a cell phone and an active neighborhood watch and still wind up victimized.

It's something all of us dread and fear, but in the extreme your cop friend was right, if you don't feel you can pull the trigger you probably shouldn't have a weapon in your house.

See the recent thread by Liberal Historian (?) on their choice on this issue following an armed robbery. Very insightful stuff.

The problem many of us have is when people decide their point of view is smarter, more enlightened or just more moral than ours is and decide to take our personal choice away from us by law. No one is ever going to force you to own or carry a gun, but by the same token please don't try and force your point of view on us and deny the rest of us that choice.

Just my .02

Don