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Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner

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Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
 
DebateChallenge said:
Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
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Well, we know reasons 4&5 are bullshit. Nothing about owning a gun makes anyone more responsible, and the fact that you have the right to is not a reason to own one.
 
watsup said:
So sorry that you live your life I fear.
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I don't live my life in fear of hurricanes, yet I still make sure to have a few days water and canned food just in case a big storm disrupts water/power for a few days.
 
DebateChallenge said:
Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
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Top reason for me is the wife and I camp.
 
DebateChallenge said:
Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
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As a gun owner, #4 is not true. So many ****ing morons that own guns do not know how to properly use them, brandish them like wanna-be gunslingers, or they treat them like toys without any consideration that any gun is a deadly weapon.

Gun responsibility is a big thing in regards to properly exercising our 2A right, and is by far the most important thing, as not being responsible with your guns esssntially negates the rest.
 
DebateChallenge said:
Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
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Can you please show how owning a gun automatically makes you “become more responsible”?

If I own a car does it make me automatically a more responsible driver?
 
DebateChallenge said:
Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
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The primary reasons why I own firearms is because:
  • I hunt; and
  • I live in Alaska.
Alaska is one place where you are continually reminded that if not for our firearms, we would not be on top of the food chain.
 
DebateChallenge said:
Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
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I would have only one reason to own a gun. To kill a Russian or two if they invade Sweden. It is perhaps unlikely that they will but not impossible. The reasons that you list apply only to the increasingly deranged USA - imo.
 
DebateChallenge said:
Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
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Something “being your right” is not an argument for doing it, and considering the number of reports of children shooting themselves or others with their parents’ guns— or the gun owner themselves having a negligent discharge— the argument that owning a gun makes one “more responsible” is downright comical.

The rest is just plain ole fearmongering about crime.
 
DebateChallenge said:
Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
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6. all your crazy republican neighbors have one.
 
Rucker61 said:
Universal statements are rarely true and impossible to prove.
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Impossible to prove? WHU ??!! On average, 390,000 guns are stolen each year. That's a gun stolen less than every 90 seconds! Those guns are now in the hands of criminals who commit crimes with them, including everything from theft and rape, to murdering police officers. Were those gun owners MORE RESPONSIBLE ??!!?? So far this year alone, more than 200 CHILDREN have died from GUN ACCIDENTS! Were those gun owners MORE RESPONSIBLE ??!!??

Reason #4 is unmitigated bullshit.
Rucker61 said:
Your opinion.
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No. Even the suggestion that the fact you having a right to something is a reason to partake of it is just more horseshit. In fact, nothing more than referencing the same data above can be a compelling reason NOT to own a gun! I wonder how many parents of dead children questioned what their reason for having one was after the loss of their child.

There may be plenty of good reasons that some people, in some circumstance, might want to own a gun. But the fact that you can isn't one of them, and the idea that if makes anyone more responsible is just a steaming pile.
 
Gateman_Wen said:
You have the right to get married to a person of the same sex.

Better get started.
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It's a reason to own one. It's not a requirement.

I'm not going to go out and do something to get my Miranda rights read to me just because, either.
 
DebateChallenge said:
Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
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No. 6. It often helps reduce the number of very bad individuals in this violent nation.
 
DebateChallenge said:
Top 5 Reasons To Be A Gun Owner
1. Slow police response time.
2. The police are not obligated to protect you.
3. Crime can happen anywhere.
4. You become more responsible.
5 Gun ownership is your right.
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Can we make, I'm scared and a firearm makes me feel better number one instead of slow police response?
 
Rucker61 said:
It's a reason to own one. It's not a requirement.

I'm not going to go out and do something to get my Miranda rights read to me just because, either.
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keep backing up.
 
Nomad4Ever said:
I don't live my life in fear of hurricanes, yet I still make sure to have a few days water and canned food just in case a big storm disrupts water/power for a few days.
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Why should you fear hurricanes? I don't and I've lived in flori-duh for over thirty years. Afer all if one starts to get to close, we just nuke them.
 
Davin said:
Can you please show how owning a gun automatically makes you “become more responsible”?

If I own a car does it make me automatically a more responsible driver?
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Kyle Rittenhouse, he became so responsible he went out of state to protect some property of people he didn't even know and in my opinion became a murderer in the process. Everything he did that night was illegal but the republicans let him walk and then made him a celebrity. Disgusting.
 
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