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by wakawaka28 617 days ago
First off, here's some probability for you. I am likely the only one reading your nonsense at this point. There are often hundreds of comments on posts and people rarely read far into the comments after a post is more than a day old. So, from the jump, you've been talking to a crowd that simply doesn't exist.

Secondly I am not promoting fear of guns. You should get as many guns as your heart desires. You in particular need to go out and see the cool stuff that's on the market. I'm guessing you read a blog post about why a cop can't reliably "just shoot for a leg" or something. That is valid in a particular way, but does not in any way prove that guns are super hard to use. If they were, cops might actually just run away and they'd be issued something else besides a gun to defend themselves.

I never said that firearm encounters are overwhelmingly fatal. However, you continue to lecture people who know more than you in condescending tone, even to the point of presuming you know better than people who are literally trained to be in gunfights. It does make me angry to be talked down to by someone with such an ignorant mentality. Your attitude is not at all rare. There are tons of people out there who think that their idle ruminations and irrelevant credentials cancel out actual experience, and these people are a menace to society.

Have you seen a cop lately? They routinely wear body armor these days. Presumably because they are afraid of stray bullets. After all, they are more likely to get hit by lightning or a galloping horse than a criminal with a $300 handgun that can fire ~18 bullets. Why worry?

You are kinda funny in this reply, if insulting, but truly you suffer from delusions of competence and have added nothing of value to this conversation.

Takeaway: I suggest you reflect on the fact that people with direct experience might actually know better than you.