Legal to carry a weapon for self-defense?

So you are saying your mother is so stupid that she is more afraid of an inanimate object, which is all a firearm is, than she is of a killer breaking down your door. Do yourself and your mother a favor, take all the locks off of all the doors and windows, that way you don't have to worry about some killer breaking in. In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion.

Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some. When I carry a firearm, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The firearm is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded.

I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation, and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

A dog. I am married to a law enforcement and I worked for the federal prison system for a number of years (before starting a family). The number one reason a burglar will avoid a house will be the presence of a dog.

It doesn't have to be a big dog. Even a yappy little rat dog will do the trick. (A burglar is just as likely to be shot and killed by a homeowner as he is to be arrested and successfully prosecuted.

Most residential burglaries actually happen during the day for this reason. But a burglar is not going to risk entering a home that contains a dog - because that dog is going to wake up the homeowners . .

. Who might have a firearm.).

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