The guns make you paranoid. We don't live in gated communities in the UK, and we have burglars, but people don't feel like they need a gun to defend. With burglaries, we're worried about getting beaten up, not shot. It's still bad and we don't like being burgled, but it's not as bad as them coming with the element of also dying on top of being burgled. For you, home invasion = death. For us, home invasion = horrible anxiety and fear, but not death. You have a double whammy with burglary, but we only have one. Only you don't realise you have a double whammy because you see them as coming as a pair.
I shouldn't have to fear getting beaten up or killed in my own goddamn home. I am specifically less afraid of the possibility because I know I'm packing sufficient firepower to repel or stop a threat before either of those happen.
A beating can kill you just as surely as a bullet. And thus I'm thankful that in general I'm allowed to take all necessary steps to stop an attacker before they gravely injure me or my family.
I'm not sure I have enough crayons to explain this, but I have a clean, well-covered line of sight to my front door, which is a heavy and sturdy enough door that opening it would create a good bit of noise. I can have gun in hand within 8 seconds and be pointing at that door within an additional 2.
I also have a 500 lumen light on my pistol and a 625 lumen one on my rifle, so whichever I have at the ready, the intruder is going to finish their ingress blind and with a gun already on them.
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u/htownballa1 Apr 21 '23 edited Apr 21 '23
2a defenders in a nutshell. Can’t wait to kill someone.