The grandfather wasn't armed. He grabbed a gun off one of them according to the article.
Armed home invasions are more common in the US where proportionally more people are armed. Increasing guns increases violence. Outside of the United States and places where rule of law doesn't much apply like South Africa victims of armed home invasions are limited to other criminals barring the occasional case of mistaken identity.
EDIT I misread the report, the grandfather grabbed a gun from inside the house, not off one of the losers. However my other comments about increasing violence as a consequence of increased firearms (or rather the more complex issue of increasing gun culture - as is often pointed out there is a higher proportion of households with firearms in Norway than in the US but the lack of frontier culture and permissive violence in the name of self defense means that violent crime is less of an issue) still stand.
The grandfather wasn't armed. He grabbed a gun off one of them according to the article.
Armed home invasions are more common in the US where proportionally more people are armed. Increasing guns increases violence. Outside of the United States and places where rule of law doesn't much apply like South Africa victims of armed home invasions are limited to other criminals barring the occasional case of mistaken identity.
Just curious on what you would rather have in a hypothetical situation. Would you rather have a machete against somebody with a machete, or a gun against somebody with a gun?
Just curious on what you would rather have in a hypothetical situation. Would you rather have a machete against somebody with a machete, or a gun against somebody with a gun?
I'd rather live in a situation in which such incidents were vanishingly rare.
pedophiles are the worst people on earth, no discussion. rapists are fourth after racists and murderers.
You believe people who merely hold a preference or bias different from your own are worse than rapists?
That is a fine example of "first world problems" if I've ever seen one:
Let me ask you a question... What would ruin your day more, some guy in a bad mood you calling you a racial slur on boxingscene, or a pack of dudes in ski masks ripping your anus apart in the back of a van, landing you in either an STD clinic or psych ward?
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