"I only want a pistol that's made to injure someone ... not kill him"

[ABTOMAT]

In regard to protecting one's own life or that of a family member, I've often wondered what goes through the head of the person who says "I could never harm someone in any situation." I don't mean this in a sarcastic way, I'm really curious.

Although it's an ugly and overly simplistic way to look at things, at the most basic level you can boil it down to assigning value to a human life. You can choose between:

1. A normal person (or child/spouse/parent/etc thereof) probably trying to lead a productive and good life, who is surprised and attacked for no justifiable reason.

2. A person who sees no great problem in attempting to end the life of another without provocation, and likely has done similar things in the past and almost certainly will in the future.

Maybe I'm being arrogant, but if I ever get put in a completely unavoidable situation where that choice must be made, I will likely decide my existance has more merit than that the individual attempting to end mine.

 

[tnieto2004]

I hope she realizes that if it becomes known she said that, she could wind up in prison if she uses a gun.

Firing a shot -- even if it misses -- is legally using deadly force. To say, "I was only trying to injure him" is an admission you used deadly force when it wasn't necessary.

Self-defense .. NOT illegal to use deadly force .. its the people on the jury who decide what was necessary ..

 

[skinnyguy]

I don't want to have to kill or injure anybody myself. I dread the thought of having to draw down and fire on somebody. I dread the guilt of having shot another human, the courtrooms, the lawyers, the leftists who want to tell me I shouldn't have done that. Scares the fecal matter out of me.

I don't want to leave my daughters fatherless, I don't want to have either one of them have their dignity, health, or life stolen by some rectal orifice who thinks that we are all just toys for his amusement.

Somebody threatens me or mine, I WILL respond. I WILL stop them. I have my Ruger's 2 magazines with 15 rounds each, and my Bryco's 2 mags with 13. I have my Remington 700 with 5 rounds out an right next to the rifle in the case. I have a .22 rifle in the works. I have my teeth. I will use any and all to stop the threat, and that threat will either be injured or dead if it isn't smart enough to run.

I certainly hope your sister gets the education she needs and her CCW, and if it ever comes down to it, SHE is the one to stop the threat, regardless of how it was stopped, and that she uses the right tool for the job.

 

[jeepmor]

Her statement shows a lack of education, it's not stupid

She sounds like someone that watches the Hollywood pictures a bit much and thinks that a person can easily shoot a gun out of an assailants hands is all. Get her some education.

I've had this very conversation with people before and I tell them a scenario like this. You want the threat to STOP. No one really wants to kill another person, at least not sane people like us. However, someone comes to punch your ticket out of this realm, you want them to STOP, shoot for COM and when they stop attacking, stop shooting. If they are dead, that is not your concern, your concern is that the threat to your life is stopped. If they were that worried about their health, they would not be committing a violent crime in the first place where they might get hurt. Don't worry about their safety, worry about yours. Hollywood is full of crap, don't beleive any of that sharpshooting crap, there are very few people in the world that can shoot that well, almost none. Reality makes for boring films is all.

Or, just get her a paint ball gun and crank the pressure up....way up.

 

[Pilgrim]

Where do liberals come up with this kind of logic?

From centuries of cultural bias. When the barbarians came to town to pillage and plunder, the pretty ones only got raped and turned into slaves. The rest were killed.

The liberals believe they will be pretty enough to survive.

Pilgrim

 

[Threeband]

When the barbarians came to town to pillage and plunder, the pretty ones only got raped and turned into slaves. The rest were killed.

The liberals believe they will be pretty enough to survive.

Pilgrim, that is VERY well said.

That explains a lot about the "appeasement" mindset, and the need to be seen as one of the nice progressives who "gets it."

Do you mind if I plagiarise it for a sig line?

 

[Elza]

berettashotgun: My wife would empty the magazine, reload/ re empty/pepper spray and then get the baton out and go to whipping the idiot.

Does she have a sister?

 

[Sec421]

well, a paintball gun might do the trick, but if it is an actual issue. I do recommend the Taser. Not that stungun crap. i don't even remember the pain of the Taser i just remember getting back up Hahaha <good times> As an overview one has to realize/rationalize why. The suspect/assailant has actually given her a choice. I have seen several example of "Defensive Wounds" to recommend the -"I only want a pistol that's made to injure someone ... not kill him"- mentality to be altered signifigantly. The assailant isn't even thinking on that level.