How Do You Defend Your Home?

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Angrist

What's with all the gun love? As a European I find it hard to understand.

I mean, I try to, and I do understand the reasoning behind it... but Europe is gunless and we still manage to protect our houses.

I believe Europe is a pretty "gunless" society, meaning that there aren't many guns circulating and if you wish to buy one legally it's generally pretty hard. That makes the odds oif being robbed/assaulted with a firearm much lower.

In the US, the gun genie is out of the bottle, with plenty being available and circulating, legally and illegally. Even if we were to ban guns, there are so many out there already it wouldn't affect criminals much at this point, IMO, and if the criminal element is going to be armed the legal element should be as well.

Also, America is very much a gun culture. We are children of violent, if reluctant, revolution. It's in our Constitution and for a long time it was considered a civic duty to own a firearm because it was the society itself that was the last lines of American defense. Times have changed, but that does not make the existing firearms disappear that were a product of previous eras.