Baja, I will not be bashing you for your thoughts. I KINDA agree with you, in regards to a lot of the people who carry.
I have an AR-15 under my bed, and a Glock 26 in both of my cars.
My intent for this is not for me, but rather for my wife. With the amount of time I spend away from home, she is often times alone, and works rather late at night, in a not so good area. God forbid someone attempt to harm her, but what if?
I would rather her shoot a disabling shot, as she's been trained, than be assaulted. (Unless they come into the bedroom. At 5-10m she is incredible with the AR shooting center mass)
i am with you wilson on everything other than the shooting to disable a person, shot them to kill, how many times has someone(overseas) been pumped full of (15+rounds) 556, and still had fight left in them, even if for only 5 or 6 sec...? thats still a lot of time and it less than 2 sec for someone to close the distance between you and them from 10-15'. so if they have a knife, in their last effort they can still fatally stab you. even with the glock, its only a 9mm, there is a reason 95% of all law enforcement has walked away from 9mm, it simply does not have the stopping power, sure you have more rounds but not the stopping power, now for a woman who is yes smaller and not as strong i say the 9 is a great weapon for her, she can easily handle it and control it(especially sense its a 26). im just saying for her to shoot to kill or eliminate the threat or stop the threat is the better option imo than to shoot to wound someone. besides you have less of an issue of the perp turning around and sueing you cause you shot them while they were trying to kill/rape/rob you, and you ending up paying for them to be the scum of the earth for the rest of your days.
Yah I remember him saying his wife was trained, thats why I said it didn't have to be that situation, it could be any similar situation. What if while your distracted by one perp, another one comes from behind and then you'd be out numbered. I agree that this is a very unlikely situation but could it be as unlikely as needing the gun in the first place? I don't know just a thought, and thats not my reason for not carrying one I simply just don't see the need.
if your out numbered then your out numbered, unless you are just a Bad A$$ or get lucky a 2+ to 1 scenario where the attackers/perps are advancing from multiple/different directions, you are at a decided disadvantage. i dont care who you are. and especially if their intent is to do harm it doesnt matter if you are a man or woman if you have one gun or two, you will most likely lose that fight unless you are just ontop of your game and or the perps mess up. but the thing with that is A, most perps look for easy targets and want to avoid conflict/confrontations and dont really set a plan that works(hence they are perps/criminals) so if you pull a gun on them they will most likely think "oh sh!t wrong house/car/person" ect, and split fast. and i think thats what wilson was/is thinking here, as would i and i think most of us who chose to arm our selfs, i dont think there is a one of us who is just itching to kill someone. B, now if you have two+ perps, who are coming after you and have made a good plan and planed it out, gone over the plan, they are probably quasi pros and a gun wont scare them or they will just react accordingly, and say either hay this isnt worth it and leave(we already went over this outcome above) or they adapt to the situation and continue(this is either a sign that they are indeed pros of just severely desperate, either way its now a fight for YOUR life now). if they are pros there is not much you can do against two of them who have a plan, they have already anticipated your moved and have come with a contingency. you will probably lose this fight(man or woman, they can still over power you just by shear numbers), but at least you know you have tryed to the best of your ability to stop/prevent it. and if its some desperate perp/oh one who is high on drugs ect, then again they will not be scared off by a gun they have one goal/drive and you will need to give them the a fight. i have seen several times a guy who weighs 150-160 high on drugs get shot with a taser and it not affect him at all then in turn pick up one or more officers who weigh well over 200lbs(before their gear) who are trying to subdue him and throw them around like rag dolls. that single "little" man will over power all but the biggest guys, and it will take 4-5 officers with some brute force to stop him
This pretty much sums up my feelings. I guess you could say Bowling for Columbine kinda swayed my opinion on guns and gun laws in America. But on that note, i've have accepted the fact that it is how it is and there nothing I can do about it. C'est la vie!
bowling for columbine was such a skewed movie made by some very liberal people. as an LEO, i have seen first hand the usefulness of a good thinking, law abiding citizen with a firearm, who have help me do my job, when i was not "there" yet or other wise unavailable.
outlawing firearms will only serve one thing, getting good law abiding people to had over their personal defenses and security measures while keeping the only weapons out there in the hands of the criminals, do you like bank robbers or gangs are gonna turn in their weapons when we(god forbid) outlaw guns? no it will never happen so i say let the people keep them, if they are dumb with them, then sure they can lose their privileges. i know you sated before that you would think twice about cutting someone off next time you drove over the border, great thanks, you will probably be less likely to cause a car accident. but i highly doubt a honest law abiding US citizen is gonna pull a gun on you just cause you cut them off, and if they do, keep driving and call 911 we will come hall them of to jail and take their gun and make the country safer for the rest of us. i dont know about up north, but there are a lot of people here in the US who legally and rightfully carry a fire arm and good for them. i bet you have run into more than one who was carrying and didnt even know it(as it should be for the most part) people who carry are not bad people or lose cannons(thats a perception given by the media and a few bad apples...). its a part of our constitution and rights as US citizens as long as we dont abuse them, and the moment we lose that freedom i will find a new line of work in a new country, maybe ill come be your neighbor
just kidding lol...oh and I was kidding about the cutting someone off thing, I cut people off without hesitation lol again j/k lol I have plenty of family members that live in the states and believe me I don't worry about being shot when i go visit them.
