Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump View Post
We don't hang people for stealing horses anymore. People who advocate deadly force for property crimes in general really are the scourge, and thankfully the minority, of gun-rights supporters.
Well, most of the threads popping up here by pro-gun people are about some ex-marine shooting people in a shop, then we have them defend a guy who runs outside to shoot the thieves who just robbed his neighbor despite a policeman telling him not to and then there was this thread about the really great patriot who managed to see some guys coming into his house and then did the following within the (roughly estimated) 5 seconds he had before they were inside:

- ran to his porperly locked weapons locker
- opened the lock with the key
- got his unloaded gun out
- loaded the gun
- shot at the criminals and made them flee

obviously this patriot was as fast as Superman because we all know the real responsible patriots always lock their guns up in a safe place and unload them before doing so because having them lie around loaded is very unsafe, kids or other people could grab them and do stupid things.
Well, that's just what I learned on this forum of course, so I fully understand how a properly locked up and unloaded gun can:

- keep your kids from doing stupid things with it

and:

- allow you to shoot any possible intruders

especially the ones that come during the night while you sleep.

Now seriously, I understand this works now and then, when someone seems to have really bad sleep or the criminals are absolute idiots, but if someone with a little bit of brain comes I'd think you don't really have a chance, alternatively your kids starts a school shooting because you didn't lock your gun away and everybody on every forum calls you an idiot because you didn't unload your gun and lock it away as every responsible gun owner should.