Then where do you draw the line at what weapons the government can keep out of peoples hands. Current BATF put it at anything over .50 cal is a destructive dervice, with a 12 gauge shotgun exception.
What does this have to do with anything in the thread?
You don’t seem capable of the sort of thought processes one should expect in an upright biped hominid.
If i'm going to protect myself, I want to have more stopping power than the person i'm protecting myself from. I don't believe in a fair fight. But that creates the problem that an armed intruder doesn't either.
If i'm going to protect myself, I want to have more stopping power than the person i'm protecting myself from. I don't believe in a fair fight. But that creates the problem that an armed intruder doesn't either.
" According to 2008 data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, police response times to violent-crime-related calls exceeded 11 minutes one-third of the time. Things were no better twelve years earlier in 1996, when a similar survey was conducted. Now, twelve years after 2008, there's no reason to assume anything has improved.
11 minutes is a long time to wait when dealing with a violent criminal.
Moreover, when police do arrive, don't expect a competent response. The cases of Atatania Jefferson and Botham Jean provide some helpful reminders.
According to multiple accounts of the Jefferson case, a neighbor of Jefferson called police to "check up" on Jefferson whom the neighbor feared Jefferson might be in danger. Jefferson was soon shot dead in her own living room by law enforcement. The shooter — a now-former cop named Aaron Dean — entered Jefferson's private property unannounced in the middle of the night. He peered into Jefferson's windows, and within seconds, the officer had shot Jefferson dead. Jefferson had been playing video games with her nephew.
A year earlier, former police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to ten years in prison for unlawfully shooting Botham Jean in his own apartment. At the time, Guyger was a police officer returning home from work. She illegally entered the wrong apartment and promptly shot Jean — the unit's lawful resident — dead.
And, of course, there is the case of Justine Damond, who called the Minneapolis Police Department to report a possible sexual assault near her home. When police arrived, they shot Damond dead, for no known reason other than hysterical fear on the part of police.
Those who proactively attempt to defend themselves fare little better. In 2018, Colorado resident Richard Black used a firearm to defend his grandson against an intruder. Unfortunately, someone called the police. When officers arrived, they opened fire on Black, even though was only a threat to the criminal intruder.
The lesson to be learned from all this is that it is foolhardy, to say the least, to rely on law enforcement officers to intervene to provide "safety" when troubles arise.
And yet, though it all, we hear again and again the myth that law enforcement agencies will provide protection, retrieve stolen property, and keep the peace. Many people in Minneapolis are now experiencing the reality."
If i'm going to protect myself, I want to have more stopping power than the person i'm protecting myself from. I don't believe in a fair fight. But that creates the problem that an armed intruder doesn't either.
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