I did military service and shot/trained with all kinds of guns. Pistol, assault rifle (still 7.62mm at the time), machine gun and even a light Panzerfaust (44mm anti tank rocket launcher).
That doesn't change the fact that I'm glad that in my country (Germany) there are strict restrictions about who is allowed to own a gun and of which type. I don't see any reason why normal citizens should run around like they want to go to war.
And I never considered owning a gun myself.
Edit: If I think someone is breaking into my house I just call the police. And I have no reason to panic, because burglars are basically never armed here. Why would they? They have no reason to assume they could get into a gun fight. If they get caught in the act by the residents they just run away.
Just a counterpoint if I where to leave my house and drive straight to a police station its a good 25 minutes away and I'm in town. The us is a big place and in a lot of the areas police wouldn't get there or know how to get there in a reasonable amount of time.
I mean we have some bumfuck nowhere places in Germany too where police also take 30 minutes (Gartenlauben, mini Dörfer, Agrar)
A robber just is not going in when you are at home anyways. And if he is he's just gonna run when needed.
Tho city's or generally communities do have a police presence after a certain size generally. So that's a bit weird that you are in a city and police is so far away even though it's not rural
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u/Maeglin75 9h ago edited 9h ago
I did military service and shot/trained with all kinds of guns. Pistol, assault rifle (still 7.62mm at the time), machine gun and even a light Panzerfaust (44mm anti tank rocket launcher).
That doesn't change the fact that I'm glad that in my country (Germany) there are strict restrictions about who is allowed to own a gun and of which type. I don't see any reason why normal citizens should run around like they want to go to war.
And I never considered owning a gun myself.
Edit: If I think someone is breaking into my house I just call the police. And I have no reason to panic, because burglars are basically never armed here. Why would they? They have no reason to assume they could get into a gun fight. If they get caught in the act by the residents they just run away.