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Use Of Firearms For Personal Safety And Defense

For many years, firearms have been consideredtechnology devises could be used by an
effective defensive weapons. If you thinkassailant in the same manor against the
things through you will realize that due tovictim, the consequences are not as
the deadly potential of guns they are reallypotentially  lethal.
a poor choice for personal protection for the
vast  majority  of  people.Sometimes the emotional trauma and
psychological effects of a victim shooting
The use of firearms is unwarranted in mostanother person can be devastating. Even
circumstances. Their use in any situation canveteran law enforcement officers are many
have grave consequences. The use of a gun intimes affected, especially if the perpetrator
defending one from an assault could beis killed. Many victims are unprepared for
considered "excessive force" in manythe intense emotional aftermath of killing
jurisdictions. It would be up to the victimsomeone [even in self-defense] and whose
to prove that a life-threatening situationagenda was to only protect him or herself.
occurred and deadly force had to be used.This scenario is a very real possibility when
Please bear in mind that nearly 80% of allfirearms  are  used.
the assaults in our country are committed
without weapons of any type. Increasingly itWhen there is a presence of a gun the crime
is taking place that even when the victim issometimes escalates the likelihood for death
not charged of a crime for using a licensedor serious injury. Once a firearm is
gun they could find themselves on the losingintroduced by the victim, its use is the only
end  of  a  civil  lawsuit.action remaining and an innocent person may
be injured or killed; and as previously
The intent of personal protection devices ismentioned, the use of the gun by the victim [
to only distract and disable the attacker andjustified or not] is subject to legal
be able to escape to get help. It is alsolitigation. Maybe the victims will not be
known that most people using a gun forcharged with a crime, but it would be very
defense don't know when to pull the triggerlikely for them to find themselves at the
and when not to pull the trigger.wrong end of a long and costly civil lawsuit.
Professional law enforcers have to go through
intensive training in shoot and no shootLast, but not least there is large burden on
scenarios and yet they still sometimes getthe gun owner to properly secure their
caught  up  in  legal  problems.firearms. There is always the possibility, no
matter how secure the gun is kept, a child or
Believe it or not, using a handgun canteenager could get their hands on a firearm
actually be less effective at stopping anwith  tragic  results.
attacker than using self-defense devices such
as defensive pepper spray or O C spray.In closing, I would like to mention that
Besides, assailants have been known to killfirearms can have a legitimate and useful
or seriously injure someone in a matter ofrole in self and home defense, but only [and
minutes after they had been shot defensively,I stress only] if the person is fully trained
even many hours after being shot withon the use and handling of the firearm,
so-called  man  stopper  ammunition.totally comprehending the responsibility and
consequences of the use of a gun and has the
A firearm used defensively can be taken awaypsychological toughness to use a firearm for
from the intended victim and used againstthe purpose of self-defense.
them. Even though it is a fact that defensive



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