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| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
I still don't think any handguns should be legal, simply for the fact that they're concealable. You can't really conceal a 12 gauge shotgun. And it provides more effective defense of your home than a pistol anyways. A shotgun can be an effective deterrent without ever having to shoot someone with it. In fact, you can scare someone off with a shotgun without it being loaded, and without them even having to see it. |
I agree with you.
But the handgun was a gift after some insane guy chased me out of my workplace one night. I had to flee out a window, hahaha. It was snowing heavily outside, and the bar across the street had ejected him an hour prior for groping women and spitting in peoples drinks - their bouncers held him down the entire time, waiting for the cops to arrive, but they never came. When I called them they said they'd be there in 5 minutes, but it took them more like 20, and the guy had gotten in a cab to the airport while I was hiding in some bushes out front. 
I don't know what the guy would have done to me if he'd broken down the door, but it's not fun feeling trapped like that. I wish I'd had a gun, though what I'd done with it probably wouldn't have made my life better.
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