First, last, and only argument needed on the 2nd amendment

...and paranoia prevails.

 

Survival prevails, I am living proof

 

As does out of hand dismissiveness of inconvenient facts that undermine a chosen narrative.

 

The only paranoia here is found in those with an irrational fear of guns.

 

Said the dead person who appears to be living....

 

That's a rather senseless reply to what is a serious subject.

 

Hmmm.... reports of my death, eh? Mark Twain has a good quote for that.

 

You don't seem to know what a Taibhse is.

 

I do and you are still being foolish about a serious subject.

 

It‘s my actual nickname, augmented these days as An Taibhse Liath. It was what I was/am called... in the same vein that some people get the nickname Tiny. I survived the impossible... still here.

 

Or better, you are being serious about a foolish subject. Needing a lethal weapon for "self protection". We live in the US not Kandahar. Fear and paranoia, not reality.

 

Being prepared is neither fear nor paranoia, however the lack of being prepared can cause that.

Would you call someone who has fire extinguishers in their home paranoid or prepared?

 

Ah sure, but it’s the left that keeps telling us more US citizens die here annually than in Kandahar.
BTW, having a lethal weapon doesn’t mean it is necessarily lethally deployed to be effective in a defensive situation. As for fear and paranoia, it is the GCA clack that exhibits both irrational fear and paranoia of the law abiding gun owners possessing and legally carrying firearms.

 

Guns in the home are statistically more dangerous to the occupants than not having one. Can you say that about fire extinguishers?

 

In the same sense that swimming pools are statistically more likely to lead to drowning than not having a swimming pool. In the same sense that the presence of motor vehicles makes one statistically more likely to be involved in a motor vehicle-related fatality.

 

Take out the criminal element and that statement becomes patiently false.

Don't need to because anti-gunner's do not make up lies about fire extinguishers.

 

I don't live in fear. I don't own "personal protection". Do you feel fear unarmed?
Your "law abiding gun owner" has been known to go off the rails in a lethal way putting the public at risk.

 

As opposed to the licensed operator of motor vehicles?

 

More lies on your part.

 

Really?

Your statement, above, indicates you DO live in fear -- and an irrational fear that that.

 

The answer to your question is No. Do armed LEOs fear being unarmed? Being armed has saved my and other’s lives.
As for someone going off the rails, then they aren’t law abiding and I have an improved chance of surviving such an incident than if I was unarmed.

 

The vast majority of thoes are gang related violence which gun laws don't affect and the majority of what is left after gang violence is suicide.
More people are killed with bare hands than all types of rifles.

All gun control arguments have been proven wrong. If you are a science based thinker you have to agree gun laws are anti science.

Gun control is on the same level as flat earth..

Yes damn proud to be against gun control..