| What if the invader is blocking the door? What if the invader is carrying a baseball bat? What if he wants to rape the woman? What if he takes a cut from the knife, then knocks out the woman, rapes her, and murders her? "Preferable"? Is the invader killing the woman preferable to the woman killing the invader? It's amazing how shortsighted you are! "Just do this" or "just do that." Talk to any kind of instructor in self defense or martial arts, and they will tell you to not get into a knife fight, or you will get cut. All of your ideas rely on the invader being rational and more interested in his own well-being than anything else. Yet the fact that he's a home invader shows that is not the case. Firearms are equalizers. They make the 5'2" woman just as dangerous as the 6'+ 200+ lb. man. They allow her to defend herself from beyond the invader's reach. They make noise to draw attention to the fact that something bad is happening. Rational people realize that they have nothing to fear from law-abiding gun owners who only want to be prepared to protect their loved ones from evil people. And rational people realize that evil people are not going away anytime soon. Rational people realize that there are plenty of irrational people who may do them harm, and that the only effective method of self-defense is to have a firearm and know how to use it. |