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To: bentway who wrote (198026)	4/5/2021 1:49:42 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 366323

..and, it's there for her, and you, if either of you decide to end your sorry life. That is the thing. The odds of a family member shooting you, not to mention you shooting yourself, is far higher than a home invader. By orders of magnitude. Now I personally don't have a problem with people who indulge irrational fears. The problem with our gun culture is that they often get used for other things. They give the owner an aura of invincibility and wind up being used when the owner is mildly inconvenienced. Like the woman who pulled her gun because the line was long and service was slow at a Burger King.