As the son of a career Army man, I was taught at an early age how to use weapons safely and to always respect them for what they were. Unfortunately, liberals think that they can legislate protection from criminals or those who are irresponsible and probably shouldn’t have guns. Owning a gun is a right they are willing to give up and are willing to “force” others to give up.
If you are responsible, you try to anticipate different scenarios and how you would handle them. With the proliferation of illegal guns used by criminals, I can’t imagine being at home and having someone breaking in and trying to fend them off with just my hands, a bat/stick, or a knife. A gun would give me and my family the best chance to scare them away or to survive an actual attack.
Beyond that, of course, ownership is part and parcel of being a responsible citizen who will fight to fend off a tyrannical government who seeks to take what is not theirs or to control my life to the point where I am a slave.
