I have been following the case of Oscar "The Pistol" Pistorius and am surprised by his documented obsession with firearms. What kind of ego is on this guy that he feels his life is so precious that he has to carry a loaded firearm around at all times just on the very, very slight possibility that someone might engage him in a gun fight? Is he holding the secret to nuclear fusion in his head? I think he has an empty head.
I do not understand the logic behind shooting at a closed door without knowing who is behind that door. If a man is going to shoot, he had better damn well know what he is shooting at. Otherwise, he is guilty of premeditated murder, case closed, no need for trial. He is either crazy as a loon, in which case he needs to be in a secure facility for the remainder of his natural life, or else he is evil, in which case the same is true. I really think the trial is a bit of a farce. I am not interested in any further evidence other than the central fact that he shot at a closed door.
The odds of needing a firearm to fend off attack are quite minimal. I hear a lot about citizen gun owners engaging violent criminals and getting shot, even killed. The unfortunate reality is that violent criminals are often better at violence than law-abiding civilians. For one thing, violent criminals don't care. They don't care whether they get shot. That's why they are violent criminals. They are willing to take extreme chances and risk death. They are often young, agile, strong, and experienced with firearms. The odds are they will win a gunfight, all other factors being equal.
I think it is better to go ahead and take the small chance of getting gunned down than to carry a gun around and possibly become responsible for what that gun can do if it is improperly used or gets into the wrong hands. Some people are just too eager to flirt with death. Death comes soon enough. No need to hurry things along!
It seems to me the wrong sort of people gravitate toward firearms. When someone tells me they carry loaded guns around, nine times out of ten, they look like the type of person that is going to shoot someone by accident because they are foolish, have limited social skills or problems with anger management and emotional maturity. Nervous, small, angry, immature men who feel weak and inadequate carry loaded guns. I think it is a penis replacement.
Law enforcement in this day and age is extremely effective. Let the cops handle the killers! They are better shots, have better weapons and tactics, work effectively as a team, and are well-trained to handle the rough stuff. There is no one that can stand against the modern police force of countries like the United States. I don't care how tough a criminal may think he is, he can and will be brought down. I am not trained to do it and prefer to leave the garbage disposal to the professionals.
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It's hard to pick one idiotic thing to point out in this half-witted screed , o I'll try to cover just two:
1. He lives in South Africa. If you knew anything at all about the state of criminal activity, you would understand the urge many feel to carry weapons. It's certainly not just because of the idiotic, small-minded pop-pysch twaddle like "Nervous, small, angry, immature men who feel weak and inadequate carry loaded guns. I think it is a penis replacement." (Plenty of women carry guns too, but your head's too far up your self-imnportant, smug ass to actually learn anything on the subject.)
2. "Law enforcement in this day and age is extremely effective. Let the cops handle the killers! They are better shots, have better weapons and tactics, work effectively as a team, and are well-trained to handle the rough stuff. " Really? Like those cops in NY who shoot 10 people, and completely failed to hit the man with a gun? How effective were the cops at Newtown, Aurora, or that stabbing spree in PA? Cops don't prevent crime, they investigate it after it happens. Maybe they will eventually bring down a criminal (or not, check out the solve rates for violent crimes in the US), but that's very cold comfort to the people who have already been victimized.
South Africa has huge problems if everyone needs to carry a gun all the time. The better solution I think would be to reform government and improve law enforcement. There is a real risk of a gun getting stolen or misfiring or being used inappropriately if everyone is carrying. Guns are extremely easy to use and extremely deadly, far more so than blades, sprays or tasers. I just don't think it is a good idea in general, and some people should never do it.
In the U.S., I have not felt the need to carry a gun in public. In fact, I think it is a little bonkers to do that. If you saw someone with a gun in public, you would be watching them, not anyone else. So if that person is not really a criminal, they are at least diverting attention so that a real criminal can do things unobserved.
At home, I think a cell phone is a better deterrent than a firearm. I can call the cops in ten seconds, and at that point it does not matter how good a shot I am, whether the gun works or not, whether I get killed, or how many criminals are trying to break in and do me harm (an unlikely scenario as I have nothing worth stealing and don't know any million-dollar secrets). I think it's a better outcome to risk dying than to risk being responsible for some horrible accident.
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