If there is one comment that drives me f-ing batty, as I know it does all of you, is the comment "well I feel safe, so I don't need a gun."
when one says they live in a low crime area and don’t feel they “need” a gun, that’s quite different than whether or not they may need one statically speaking. Denial can get you killed. Ergo:
"Denial is a defense mechanism' postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence..."
For example, the women who walks home alone late at night in a bad area of NYC says “I feel perfectly safe” is in denial no?
So, “feeling safe” and being safer two very different things right?
So, when one says "I live in a low crime area", what you are actually saying is statistically speaking, the likelihood of your needing a gun to protect you or your family is low enough that you feel comfortable not owning one. Fair enough, but one should never mistake “feeling” safe for actually being safe, statistically speaking.
I too live in a low crime area, thus I am at low risk of needing a gun, and I know that. I also have an alarm and good locks and expect that would be effective against 99% of the people who ever attempted to enter my house by force.
Now, back to feeling safe vs being safe. Before I lived in this town, I lived in Newton MA, which at the time was ranked THE safest city in the US. Number one at that time. Not sure where it’s ranked right now, but I am sure it’s still ranked top 3 or so of safest cities. My land lady didn’t even lock her doors, as she saw no need…Don’t know where you live, but do you think you have lower or higher crime rates than Newton MA? In the 7 years I lived there, I missed an armed bank robbery by less then 30 minutes, there was an armed break in down the block from me. Finally, close by was my favorite little fish store. Being big salt water fish enthusiast I used to stop in a lo and knew the manager well.
On night I was in, talked shop went home. Less than an hour later, a guy passing through came into that store (police later assumed he was probably high on something) asking about his drugs, where his money was, etc. My friend the manager tried to tell him he had no idea what he was talking about, so this guy pulls out a gun and shoots him twice. My friend, now shot twice, wrestled the gun from the guys hands, puts it under his chin, and blew is brains all over the fish store.
Any of you from MA remember that shooting?
My friend lived, but with permanent injuries and the store was closed. That’s real life. Yes, living in low crime areas, statistically speaking, you are unlikely to need a gun, but me, I am not willing to risk my life, or my families life on that, are you? That's what I tell people when they give me that "I feel safe" BS...
Don’t plan on any fires, but I have several fire extinguishers too….rant off!
when one says they live in a low crime area and don’t feel they “need” a gun, that’s quite different than whether or not they may need one statically speaking. Denial can get you killed. Ergo:
"Denial is a defense mechanism' postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence..."
For example, the women who walks home alone late at night in a bad area of NYC says “I feel perfectly safe” is in denial no?
So, “feeling safe” and being safer two very different things right?
So, when one says "I live in a low crime area", what you are actually saying is statistically speaking, the likelihood of your needing a gun to protect you or your family is low enough that you feel comfortable not owning one. Fair enough, but one should never mistake “feeling” safe for actually being safe, statistically speaking.
I too live in a low crime area, thus I am at low risk of needing a gun, and I know that. I also have an alarm and good locks and expect that would be effective against 99% of the people who ever attempted to enter my house by force.
Now, back to feeling safe vs being safe. Before I lived in this town, I lived in Newton MA, which at the time was ranked THE safest city in the US. Number one at that time. Not sure where it’s ranked right now, but I am sure it’s still ranked top 3 or so of safest cities. My land lady didn’t even lock her doors, as she saw no need…Don’t know where you live, but do you think you have lower or higher crime rates than Newton MA? In the 7 years I lived there, I missed an armed bank robbery by less then 30 minutes, there was an armed break in down the block from me. Finally, close by was my favorite little fish store. Being big salt water fish enthusiast I used to stop in a lo and knew the manager well.
On night I was in, talked shop went home. Less than an hour later, a guy passing through came into that store (police later assumed he was probably high on something) asking about his drugs, where his money was, etc. My friend the manager tried to tell him he had no idea what he was talking about, so this guy pulls out a gun and shoots him twice. My friend, now shot twice, wrestled the gun from the guys hands, puts it under his chin, and blew is brains all over the fish store.
Any of you from MA remember that shooting?
My friend lived, but with permanent injuries and the store was closed. That’s real life. Yes, living in low crime areas, statistically speaking, you are unlikely to need a gun, but me, I am not willing to risk my life, or my families life on that, are you? That's what I tell people when they give me that "I feel safe" BS...
Don’t plan on any fires, but I have several fire extinguishers too….rant off!
