Do you feel safer owning a gun?

Answer 1

You're asking if an inanimate object can create a psychological state. If it does, then it is a state of deception. Having a gun doesn't make me feel safer- the fact that I have a gun and know how to use it to resolve force issues in the gravest extreme keeps me from feeling quite as vulnerable ( not the same thing). Having a gun doesn't equate to instant safety. Follow the implications. If you have a gun ( and assume you aren't unprovoked going to attack someone unarmed) this means one thing- you are now properly equipped to engage in a gunfight ( as opposed to a simple shooting, which is what we call it when only one person is armed).

So now that you find yourself in a gunfight, how safe do you feel? Get my point?

Its better to have one and not need it than need it and not have it. Better still not to need one to begin with.

Answer 2

I would never own a gun. I go through serious bouts of depression and suicide would be TOO easy if I owned a gun. I refuse to own a gun, because I know that the bouts of depression will pass... however slowly.

I live in a neighborhood that has known gangs in it. But I have a dog who is very protective of me and I don't mind sleeping with my windows open to catch a good breeze. I am not against gun ownership... but I feel perfectly safe without one... and given my own personal circumstances, would feel less safe WITH one.

Answer 3

I myself have pondered this question as my father owned many, many guns as did every other adult member of my family all throughout my growing up...they were deer hunters and firm believers in self preservation. My mother even carried a pistol in her purse and glove compartment as long as I can remember. This issue is truly a double edged sword (or double barreled shotgun) of sorts. Yes, the old saying is true, "Its better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it" in many cases. But safety is compromised any time there are deadly weapons involved. Children have been known to stumble upon a firearm in their own home or someone elses home and desire to play with it....you know the rest. Or, say a heated argument starts,....what would've otherwise been just another argument turns into someone's funeral. You hear a noise in your house, thinking its a burgular and accidentally shoot your spouse or child. I knew a man who was shooting at an armadillo in his backyard and shot his wife in the head, killing her, the mother of his three young sons, instantly. How would you ever live with yourself? Then theres days no one really feels like getting out of bed...what if you had a loaded 44 mag in the night stand? Would you end it all in a fleeting moment of weakness? Men and women sometimes hide behind guns as a source of power, when in essence, their judgement and reasoning are their true sense of power in dangerous situations. I am the only member of my family, male or female, who has opted to choose to live life without the option of going for my gun. And, it is for all these reasons...an accident waiting to happen it seems.

Answer 4

I am in the process of buying one now, and then taking lessons with it. I hope I will get a safer feeling by having one, but am anxious to see what other posters have to say.

Answer 5

It's not the fact that I "own" the gun that makes my feel safe, its the fact that I know how to use it and feel comfortable doing so if need be.
Know your 1st and 4th amendments and think twice before breaking into my house...if the dog don't get you, I will.

Answer 6

yes.don't you feel safer because I own a gun?

Answer 7

Unfortunately YES

Answer 8

Sure, during Andrew I ran off several looters. Meanwhile my rabid anti-gun neighbor came over begging me for help. Told him to buy a gun.

Me= still kept all my stuff

him = lost a ton of stuff.

Answer 9

I was in LA during the Rodney King riots. Funny thing is that the only ones not attacked or looted were those of us with semi auto rifles willing to kill the looters.

Answer 10

You have to keep the darned things locked up so tight now that there is no hope of using one for defence anyway.

You are better off with a 2,000,000 dB alarm that blows the crook's ear-drums out if they mess with your stuff.
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But then they could sue you because they are deaf.
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Too bad, but they they couldn't hear you sneaking up on them.
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