It's a bit embarrassing but in the UK that's a serious stance. A sword is one of the only weapons of significance you can own.
When I entertain Americans I show them my sword and crossbow collection.
Sometimes I take them into the cellar and show them the more creative things such as boxes of drain unblocker (face remover) and super soakers for if crowd control is required.
For intruders we just go to the shed or closet. Burglars are very careful to virtually never invade an occupied home. Guns are the least of your worries. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to have your face chewed off by an electric whisker or to be mauled by a drill bit? Guns don't work well around corners and around every corner you never know what might be waiting for you. The one benefit is that home invasion of an occupied house by a stranger that is unsure if you're in or out is virtually non-existent.
There's another way to look at this. The less effective the more effective.
Would you rather die by a gun shot to the head or worse the sensation of all your flesh, tendons and all the mechanics that allow you to circumnavigate the world (such as to move at that which gives you pleasure and away from that which gives you pain rather than being a piece of flotsam bobbing on the waves) torn from you then left as a gurgling potato for a couple of decades trapped in a prison worse than prison one of your own flesh and blood or rather lack there off a hapless observer people buzzing around you and tending to you like a baby thinking you want feeding when you're really saying over and over "kill me" begging for a mercy killing.
A very very long and painful death indeed. Living but nothing else. One day the potato spluttered. The nurse responded on dear are you hungry, did you poop yourself, do you need more morphine or is it something else. It was "if only he had a gun instead, legalise guns, please".
It's a very good deterrent indeed. The problem is it's not so good against the man. Or is it? Then you have to get really creative to get destructive.
It's a bit embarrassing but in the UK that's a serious stance. A sword is one of the only weapons of significance you can own.
When I entertain Americans I show them my sword and crossbow collection.
Sometimes I take them into the cellar and show them the more creative things such as boxes of drain unblocker (face remover) and super soakers for if crowd control is required.
For intruders we just go to the shed or closet. Burglars are very careful to virtually never invade an occupied home. Guns are the least of your worries. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to have your face chewed off by an electric whisker or to be mauled by a drill bit? Guns don't work well around corners and around every corner you never know what might be waiting for you. The one benefit is that home invasion of an occupied house by a stranger that is unsure if you're in or out is virtually non-existent.
We make do.
I'd advise against the whisker. The wife will go mad.
There's another way to look at this. The less effective the more effective.
Would you rather die by a gun shot to the head or worse the sensation of all your flesh, tendons and all the mechanics that allow you to circumnavigate the world (such as to move at that which gives you pleasure and away from that which gives you pain rather than being a piece of flotsam bobbing on the waves) torn from you then left as a gurgling potato for a couple of decades trapped in a prison worse than prison one of your own flesh and blood or rather lack there off a hapless observer people buzzing around you and tending to you like a baby thinking you want feeding when you're really saying over and over "kill me" begging for a mercy killing.
A very very long and painful death indeed. Living but nothing else. One day the potato spluttered. The nurse responded on dear are you hungry, did you poop yourself, do you need more morphine or is it something else. It was "if only he had a gun instead, legalise guns, please".
It's a very good deterrent indeed. The problem is it's not so good against the man. Or is it? Then you have to get really creative to get destructive.
We don't solely rely on the media. However it is quick unheard off barring sissified areas rife with the liberal snot nose.
Attempted home invasion by strangers does happen but when they get it wrong the moment they hear the chainsaw revving up they're already gone.
A real shame. I do so wish you could get a silencer for the common chainsaw.
I’d rather you just shoot me lol