Robbed last night/Becoming a target

[janettebournes]

Complete_newbie wrote:

Fascinating topic.

@janettebournes or AlexxT – are there classes for this sort of thing (meaning, gun practice/self defense/how to equip house for intruder and then shoot the crap out of them?). As you can tell, I am not into this but for family security (now with a kid!) I have to take it seriously despite living in a very low crime rate area and living low profile.

Thanks!

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Yes our local gun range offers self defense courses and simulations that go over everything from basic firearm handling to some more tactical issues (if you really want to get crazy, they have a training program for how to handle a firefight and use a car as a cover. I'm hopeful I'll never have to attend that class or utilize those skills )

I thought my husband was nuts as well for signing us up for the home defense course but admittedly, my mindset did change after having kids and after trying a class.

We also live in a low crime gated community and started attending these classes once 2 of our neighbors got robbed (fortunately just burglary, both neighbors were not at home leading the community to suspect some of the service workers in the community were casing the homes)

[AR]

ENT Doc wrote:

Fair point to discuss the “vast majority” comment. However, that comment does not at all prove bias but rather the lack of quoting a specific study supporting his claim that the vast majority of children killed by guns are gangbangers. I could easily see that being true, but I don’t have any facts to prove or disprove it.

Regardless of that, the point still holds true that you can’t take any if the aforementioned studies and apply them liberally to what is more likely to be the situation with physicians. To do so is either biased or ignorant of basic study interpretation.

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"Does not prove bias"  Are you serious?  I suppose if your standard is absolute proof, we can virtually never determine bias based on something someone says or writes.  Someone could always claim that whatever view they advance might sure sound biased, but is actually the resulted of careful unbiased analysis.  How exactly are you going to prove otherwise?

So, yeah, anything is possible.  But in the real world, it's completely reasonable to infer biases based on the unverifiable claims someone makes.  His bias might even be correct, but to act like it's nonexistent is laughable.

[The White Coat Investor]

Craigy wrote:

I would like to congratulate everyone here for a largely cool and level-headed discussion of firearms for home defense.

Most gun discussions on non-gun forums tend to go south pretty quickly.

Testament to the quality of WCIers.   

 

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Yea, it was pretty good. But at this point it's starting to generate more heat than light so let's shut it down.