[TexasSP]

Well, let's look at the genocide in Rwanda. Now think in terms if the other side had guns. Things would be a little different.

Jerry, it's not really that extreme, they are examples, and things like that can and do happen every day.

Here's a true story about elderly intimidation.

My grandfather at 90 lived alone. He was in good enough health to care for himself and what not with minimal assistance. He was slow though, had a bad leg with a drop foot, and not strong enough to fend anyone much younger and healthier than him off. So one afternoon a man comes to his door, asking for money. (this is a nice neighborhood in a small town north of Houston) My grandfather never opened the door but kept asking the man to leave. The man wouldn't leave and started becoming belligerent. Well low and behold my grandfather grabbed his .357 he kept by his chair and pointed it through the window in the door at the man and instructed him to leave. I imagine you could have seen smoke trails when the guy left. Had the cops been called, it would have taken at least 5-10 minutes. What could this unknown man done in the amount of time?

Then there is the efficiency of the it all. If someone is threatening my family I don't want to chance me taking a baseball bat against them and them still getting the upper hand. What if they are quicker than me? What if they are so high they don't feel pain?

My business partner just the other day had a guy get out of his car and threaten him because he accidentally cut him off. My partner then pointed his laser site at the guys eyeball and the guy rethought the situation, became much more polite and got back in his car. I was actually on the phone with him when this happened and he dropped the phone in the seat and I could still hear the exchange.

As far as children go, I grew up in a family with guns, hunting rifles to pistols. I knew where they were but was taught about them and never touched them. All of my friends families had guns and so on. Never was there a single incident. In fact I think most of those incidents are few and far between as I can't even remember the last time I read or heard of one.