Controversial Topic Warning!! Is owning a gun for SD/HD similar to...

Perspective...

..more U.S. citizens are killed in Chicago, Illinois in a year than U.S. soldiers were killed in a year in Iraq when the war was in full swing, and Iraq was a war zone. That should put it into perspective.
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Be sure to include this in your perspective;

In Iraq our soldiers are armed, operate in supporting groups, and are both expected, and encouraged to shoot back.

This is NOT the case in Chicago.

Also allow for the "riddance factor".
A significant portion of "US citizens killed by guns" are criminals being killed by other criminals. And some of them are criminals killed by police.

These deaths do have a place in statistics, and should be given due consideration, but not the same consideration as the number of innocents killed by criminals. Its a different matter. Lumping them all together for a bigger number is done to promote a particular agenda not reality.
 
In Iraq our soldiers are armed, operate in supporting groups, and are both expected, and encouraged to shoot back.
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They also wear heavy body armor that will stop most rifle rounds at point blank range and generally have medically trained and well-equipped personnel immediately on hand in case of serious injury.
 
Like so many have said before it is better to have and not need than to need and not have..for some owning a gun is about hobby and intrest first and protection is a added bonus..same as collecting almost anythinng ome people think it is a stupid hobby or pointless but the person who does theit collecting owns them out of intrest..i personally own guns because i enjoy shooting and like to have a collection and something of value to pass on to my kids..i live in A relativley safe area so i will most likely never need my guns for protection but that doesnt mean i dont always have one ready to go just in case.

Also just to make a point for those of us who carry lets look at at statistics for rape victims i dont know the numbers for sure but i belive i have heard something like 1 in 5to woman are sexually assualted or raped in there lifes..now lets say all those woman carried a gun how far would those statistics then drop?? I belive owning a gun simply for sd has to be viewed in a individual perspective rather than a gross percentage some people are much more likely to need it than others but it is a tool everyone should have just incase
 
never flying airplanes because they rarely crash, but when they do crash, chances are everyone dies?

Or, is it similar to regularly buying lottery tickets while knowing that the odds of winning are 1 in 1,000,000?

No, and no.

I have over 20 years in the aerospace industry, and USAF aircraft maintenance.

It is not the failure of the airframe that is the problem. It is a mechanical beast, with electronics, wiring, mechanisms, propulsion systems, and those things that keep the belly of the plane off the ground. All by different makers, and all configured to fit within that metal body, somehow.

Any one of those things can go foo-foo on it's own, or through lousy maintenance procedures. Each engine is held to the plane, at the top, by 4 bolts, the thickness of your fattest uncle's thumb, only! A wire no thicker than your pocket radio headset's could deliver all that radar information to a pilot's screen, or by the natural vibrations of mechanical flight, chafe against the plane's frame, and drop that signal, as you hear your radio going over a bridge.

Lastly, it the aircraft mechanic, and how their night was last night, or how their boss interacts with them, or they are behind the company's maintenance schedule, that is the real culprit of "loss of aircraft flight performance at any speed". I've seen military aircraft get up to 100 feet altitude over the runway, and lose flight performance, and gain augering performance, due to out-right bad maintenance.
 
Wow, I hadn't looked at this thread in a while and I'm a little overwhelmed by all the numbers and stats being thrown around. A college prof once told me:

"People should use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamp post; More for support than illumination." :D
 
A college prof once told me:

"People should use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamp post; More for support than illumination."
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That was a wise prof. as most any statistic can be manipulated and groomed to substantiate whichever side of the fence you sit on on a given subject.
 
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