jattaway

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Statistics are the only real guide here. Finding statistics without an agenda appears to be the difficult thing. For me, it is pretty simple. There are far too few police to prevent crime The safety of my family is my chief concern I am home with my family more often than the police are at my door guarding it That makes me the person most often on hand to pretect them. The easiest way to do this and keep my family secure is with a firearm. I am in favor of training classes for proper use and safety.

That is exactly the reason. "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." - George Washington

>> In several places (I'm aware of 2 in the US, and 1 in AU), there's a law on the books REQUIRING everyone to own a gun. The crime rate for these towns is virtually zero. >> I live in one of those places, Kennesaw - Georgia. We are just outside of the city of Atlanta and while 5 to 10 miles away crime is rampant, here we have virtually none. There are a lot of factors involved (one being it is safer to break in a house someplace else), but I would argue that on average crime rates will be lower in areas where firearms are common in households than in areas with strict gun control laws.