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Salamandre
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posted August 07, 2012 05:18 PM |
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Killing someone, no mater what the situation is
I do not agree with this one. I don't recall seeing or hearing anywhere people being traumatized because they slaughtered a potential dangerous criminal.
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master_learn
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posted August 07, 2012 05:36 PM |
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@Elodin
Leave the gun!Take the cannoli!
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gnomes2169
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posted August 07, 2012 08:06 PM |
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Killing someone, no mater what the situation is
I do not agree with this one. I don't recall seeing or hearing anywhere people being traumatized because they slaughtered a potential dangerous criminal.
You didn't read beyond this statement, did you?
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Elodin
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posted August 07, 2012 08:11 PM |
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The idea that a rock, a bat, or a knife is a better home defense weapon than a gun is utterly preposterous. Have you ever been confronted with a knife? I have. Guess what, the gun trumped.
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Salamandre
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posted August 07, 2012 08:30 PM |
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Gnomes, I did. Your statement that killing someone is traumatizing, no matter the circumstances, is purely subjective, is your opinion, without any scientific proof behind. Some good literature contains that idea, for better drama sake.
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Doomforge
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posted August 07, 2012 09:10 PM |
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The idea that a rock, a bat, or a knife is a better home defense weapon than a gun is utterly preposterous. Have you ever been confronted with a knife? I have. Guess what, the gun trumped.
Have you won a lottery? I have. That must mean it totally happens to everyone.
Besides, "home defense weapons" seem ridiculous in the first place. I was talking about mug situations. This includes surprise, stress and not being ex-military.
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JollyJoker
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posted August 07, 2012 10:30 PM |
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Gnomes, I did. Your statement that killing someone is traumatizing, no matter the circumstances, is purely subjective, is your opinion, without any scientific proof behind. Some good literature contains that idea, for better drama sake.
Wellm sure, killing someone is the easiest thing in the world - of course, if it was, well...
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master_learn
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posted August 07, 2012 11:12 PM |
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I dont understand how "killing someone" is a "thing" and more-what exactly is "well" in it?
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Salamandre
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posted August 07, 2012 11:46 PM |
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JJ, when you are innocent and your life is threatened by some criminal, your defense may lead to his death. There are endless of such cases, and I never heard anyone regretting they took a scum life in order to survive.
Life is precious if you consider it an unique gift and feel responsible. It looses its aura and price if is used to piss others, and this is what criminals do.
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JollyJoker
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posted August 08, 2012 08:26 AM |
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It seems you don't understand the concept of becoming traumatized. It has nothing to do with doing "the right thing".
If there is a home invader and you smear him over your living room walls with your shotgun (and maybe even the police later finds that he wasn't armed with a deadly weapon) - do you really think, come the next day it's business as usual and you'll go and scrub your walls clean, whistling a happy little tune?
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Salamandre
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posted August 08, 2012 08:31 AM |
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Trauma is commonly used to define a shock over a long period, often entire life. Shock is more appropriate here, and is lasting short time.
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JollyJoker
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posted August 08, 2012 08:36 AM |
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You get both.
Imagine, the guy isn't dead. The main force of the shell hit him in the shoulder, shredding it more or less, and now the guy is lying on your carpet, cries in total anguish like a pack of hell hounds and bleeds slowly to death. Your wife and children are coming to see what's happening...
Do you really think you can just FORGET that?
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Salamandre
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posted August 08, 2012 08:49 AM |
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Well, it is hard to know when never happened to you or me. What I wrote was that I never heard about people suffering from substantial trauma because they killed someone in the process of defending them selves.
You can get serious trauma from accidentally taking a life, this we know. But "no matter the circumstances" is just not true.
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posted August 08, 2012 08:57 AM |
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"home defense weapons"
But the professional thief will strike anyone who is not in the house. The owner arrives home, and all the goods have been removed. The thief always leaves phone. They are also able to make burglary the day time a block of flats. Steal the car with the alarm, and police are next. 
If the stolen gun, then kill someone? The truth or a complete plan?
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JollyJoker
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posted August 08, 2012 10:16 AM |
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Well, it is hard to know when never happened to you or me. What I wrote was that I never heard about people suffering from substantial trauma because they killed someone in the process of defending them selves.
You can get serious trauma from accidentally taking a life, this we know. But "no matter the circumstances" is just not true.
But that's not what we are talking about.
We are talking about the suggestion of our righteous, loving Christian to keep a shotgun at home and smear your living room walls with the blood of anyone who puts a foot into your house, because they just MAY be a horde of aliens or a pack of demon worshippers who wants to torture your family to death.
Whereas I think - and I'm not alone here - that most people will be better of defending themselves with something non-lethal. One aspect here is the fact that you absolutely do NOT want to make a slaughterhouse out of your living room, ESPECIALLY not with a wife and children. For one, that will definitely decrease your feeling of well-being, living there, and for two, the pictures and sounds and stink may never leave you - of course, if you are or have been a soldier, serving in a war zone, that point may be moot, since you'll already live with them. And a good thing it is, that we cannot just forget these things either - if we could, we probably were predators.
However, there is another point here to keep in mind. The overwhelming majority of people who did NOT already kill has qualms about using lethal force. Even policemen hesitate, especially the first time, when it comes to using a real gun with live ammo on a human target. They do NOT hesitate, though, using a baton or guns with rubber bullets.
The same can be expected from the normal Joe next door. He may simply hesitate, especially if he doesn't perceive an immediate threat to his life, and that may prove fatal. However, he'll probably shoot with a gun firing rubber, wax or plastic bullets without any hesitation - should he kill the invader with them, hitting him unluckily, it was bad luck and it wasn't messy. He shoots to incapacitate which covers all angles.
Sure, if a guy has both his hands aroun your throat, and you hold a gun and fire point blank into his guts, before everything turns black, you won't have any second thoughts later about shredding his entrails. You will probably be traumatized, but more because of those hands around your throat than anything else.
But that wasn't the point here.
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master_learn
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posted August 08, 2012 10:35 AM |
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I wonder how many of you have watched "The Gendarme takes off" ,where Cruchot traps Gerber and his wife in the basement,using his super alarm system?
I think many times non-lethal system can be very good!
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posted August 08, 2012 11:22 AM |
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If anybody got to your house in the first place, you failed at precaution, something that should occupy your thoughts more than having the shotgun in the gun case.
Elodin, do you use alarms? Or do you simply depend on your shotgun
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Salamandre
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posted August 08, 2012 12:16 PM |
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I don't know, they have in US a 10-20 times more gun crimes than any country in EU, by citizen rate. Here where I live, having a gun is out of question, but if everyone could buy one, probably opinion would change too. For now, my best weapon is my home key.
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JollyJoker
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posted August 08, 2012 01:05 PM |
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Sure. But you might prefer something like this:
Non-lethal 9mm ammo
And if it has to be a shotgun, there is non-lethal ammo available for those as well.
Of course, our loving Christian will tell us, that you cannot have anough stopping power and that a threat ceases to be a threat only if you've plastered the walls with him, but not everyone is a citizen of Texas AND loves his enemies so much that he wants to hang pieces of them on your walls, so I'd simply consider making use of modern technology.
An alarm system helps, of course, should you feel somewhat ... exposed.
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Salamandre
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posted August 08, 2012 01:13 PM |
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I think is going too much into unrealistic situations. A thief will almost never break in your house if you and your family are at home, because : a) he does not want to be catch, b) he needs to search for goodies and your presence prevents him searching well.
Which leaves to the real situations, where a thief breaks in your office/work place and often is armed with something. Many people here talk about protecting your family, but in real life it is 99% of situations protect your money. So, killing someone to save your money would me a more appropriate title.
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