Do You Own a Gun?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

I don't, though Mrs. Dallas has made noise about doing some kind of target shooting before. I'm tempted to buy her an air rifle of some sort for her birthday, but I don't know of anywhere that would be good to shoot it. (Our yard, being kind of postage-stamp sized, and irregularly shaped at that, doesn't seem like a good candidate.)

An air rifle is not going to save your ass.

I would recommend one of two courses of action.

!. Don't buy a gun and accept the fact that if you are ever accosted you will become some sort of statistic. That is a perfectly acceptable position to assume, the majority of people do it on a regular and daily basis.

2. Buy a gun, train with it, shoot it to stay proficient, take a formal handgun self defense course, and never point it at anything you are not willing to kill.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

...!. Don't buy a gun and accept the fact that if you are ever accosted you will become some sort of statistic...

What statistic are you insinuating.

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

An air rifle is not going to save your ass.

I said "target shooting," not self defense. If I thought a real gun would be beneficial for me to have, I'd have one already.