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> 'Cause I'd say, grab a shotgun and shoot in their general direction. This is terrible advice. The chance that you are the victim of a serial killer is so va
by ux-app 11y ago
> 'Cause I'd say, grab a shotgun and shoot in their general direction.
This is terrible advice.
The chance that you are the victim of a serial killer is so vanishingly small as to be not worth considering. Therefore if you have an intruder in your home, they are almost certainly after your property.
I would hope that any moral human being would not value property over a human being's life.
Therefore the best outcome which preserves human life is to simply let the intruder take your property and leave. They're almost certainly in a hurry to do so.
Involving a firearm escalates the situation unnecessarily and raises your own chances of death from very very unlikely to probably 50/50 (stat pulled from my butt).
If, on the other hand, you do believe that lethal force is justified to protect property then you have a miss aligned moral compass.
- nicksardo 11y agoWhen a stranger is in my home at 3am while my spouse and two kids are upstairs sleeping, I won't risk judging what he/she will or will not do. Even if I were alone, I wouldn't take that chance. My intention is not to preserve "human life" but the lives of my family and myself.
- ux-app 11y ago> My intention is not to preserve "human life" but the lives of my family and myself. The irony of course is that (statistically speaking) you would be vastly lowering you and your family's chances of surviving the event. The chance that the intruder is there to murder you is ridiculously minuscule. It's so small that the people that do indiscriminately enter homes to murder get special nicknames like "Zodiac Killer" and Hollywood makes films about them. Worrying about this type of intruder is irrational. Pulling a gun turns what is almost certainly a routine burglary into a life and death situation.
- nicksardo 11y agoFirst, your statistics are moot. As I just said, a statistic is still a risk. A risk I will not take when it comes to family. You play it your way; I'll play it mine.
- ux-app 11y ago> You play it your way; I'll play it mine. Of course. I just find the idea of guns making you safe so laughably absurd (and provably false). I'm sure they make you feel safer though. Maybe that's worth something. Here's a good comedy skit about gun ownership (NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl--YVnni0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl--YVnni0I
- nicksardo 11y agoGuns don't make me feel safe. Being properly trained on how to use defensive force makes me feel safe. The error in your logic is that you're imagining yourself with a weapon, which indeed, is laughable and provably unsafe. Edit: not going to bother replying and further make this thread a gun debate. Just want to state that YouTube videos of comedic skits and accidents doesn't nullify any argument. Humans will make mistakes; that's a fact of life.
- ux-app 11y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YqcvuRRggM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YqcvuRRggM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUonA66btgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUonA66btgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_1yDAqsnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_1yDAqsnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvfbikv0gBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvfbikv0gBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WChMcDCMgGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WChMcDCMgGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjCczTWqKx8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjCczTWqKx8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycTwaROa1I0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycTwaROa1I0 2mins of youtubing. These examples never end! But you, your wife, your kids. You'd never make these kinds of stupid mistakes. edit: there must be thousands of these self proclaimed gun pros out there here's another beauty https://youtu.be/v-i8dtulUYU?t=165 https://youtu.be/v-i8dtulUYU?t=165 love the facial reaction. edit 2: these videos literally never end on YouTube. Here are another 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv89_3rrW8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv89_3rrW8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTGDKe-uy3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTGDKe-uy3E
- ux-app 11y ago