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Originally Posted by RRxtar
Its funny, everyone, including me and my friends, always put some form of effectiveness of end of the world / zombies / home invasion into our decision making regarding firearms, camping gear, etc, as if it holds a legitimate value among categories like cost/reliability/performance/looks.
But talking about home defense is seriously ridiculous, imo. Everyone thinks they are a billy bad ass swat member but in the 0.00001% likelyhood you going to be home and targetted for a home invasion, you're more likely to piss your pants and cry in panic than be capable of tactically countering the home invasion.
Plus, good luck getting your keys which are probably in a room that your firearms aren't, unlocking your firearms, then getting your ammo, which isn't stored with the firearm, loading your firearm, and then confronting the home invaders (usually not 1), in less time than it takes them to run up the stairs and fuck your shit up.
This isn't america where you can have your handgun under your pillow ready to roll.
And IF you did use that weapon, you're spending your life in prison and ruining your family anyway NO MATTER WHAT so why even bother.
If you put "home defense" on your PAL application, they will deny you.
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Even in america where you can keep your gun under the pillow, again assuming the very slim odds stack against you and you're the target of a home invasion (seriously, when the hell is the last time you heard of one that didn't involve gangbangers or drugs?), the bad guys always have a jump on you because they're the only ones who know what is going to happen. By the time you wake up and begin to process what in the fuck that noise was buddy is already up the stairs and in your face.
If you DO want some kind of home protection that won't get you in shit, take up golf (stay with me here). Keep a putter and a couple golf balls under the bed, if someone breaks in crack them with the putter and take out the golf balls. Say you couldn't sleep and were fiddling around putting when buddy broke in, you panicking and thwacked him with the club. That is easily believable but midnight target practice or baseball practice, not so much.
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Anyone who buys a gun specifically for "home defense" is an idiot, I'm sorry.
I've been hunting and around guns all my life and to me it's scary when people who weren't raised with them start getting their PAL etc. I've found almost to a person people who get their licenses later in life have a level of respect that makes me not want to be anywhere near them with firearms.
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That sounds all well and good but if we weren't raised around guns we're what, not supposed to get a PAL?