Butuz,

So what do you think honest people should do....let the criminals go about their business without any worries of being stopped? If you are waiting for the police to protect you, I sure hope you a lot more police officers where you live than we do. No matter how hard they try, they cannot be everywhere all of the time to stop criminals before they have time to rape, kill or steal. In fact most police work is involved in solving past crimes and attempting to bring the criminals to justice. If you are the one that has been hurt by these guys, then the fact that they MIGHT get caught and spend a little time in jail doesn't do you any good.

On the other hand, if you don't mind your family members being injured or your personal possessions being taken from you while you watch, then I guess you really don't need a way to defend yourself. If you don't believe that the POTENTIAL of a gun being available for defense is a deterent to crime, then why don't you try walking into a potential gun owner's house in the middle of the night and "borrowing" something! I'll bet that you are smarter than to try that and guess what, most criminals are too. They look for easy targets and a man with a gun is not "easy". That is why cities in the US with the highest percent of legal gunowners have the lowest crime rates of personal assault and home invasion.