I would think someone defending their family's lives with everything to lose would take the odds.

I know you were replying to him and his idea.  I'm aware how it all works :p  I'm glad more people do!

Not only that but the statistics say just about the exact opposite of what this guy says.

Hey, im no idiot or tree hugging hippy. I much prefer humans to animals but we have to remember that we too are animals. Segregation from animals, violence towards them all of this leads to war in us humans and one day these animals are likely to evolve an instinct, a hatred towads us. Whats so bad with living with animals anyway? if there is a system to allow for it whats the problem?

Look I really do understand and agree with you, that was just a reply to someone elses claim that high taxes in Scandinavia was a bad thing. I was simply telling him that they aren't a bad thing for Scandinavia. I know the systems in place in Scandinavian countries only work on a small scale. When did I say the USA should be like that? I think the USA should be the opposite.

I'm still struggling to see how your replies relate to that post, sorry for the misunderstanding.

WTF are you talking about?

You sound exactly like a tree hugging hippie. 

And there is a system in place.  It's called hunting.  If it wasn't for it, most of the food (non meat) you eat wouldn't be possible, at least not at those affordable prices.

I would think so.  But even if my odds were one in a thousand, they're better than they would be without guns.

You must have missed the part where I said, I'm taking what you said, and applying it to the topic at hand.  And then I said, I'm writing this because someone could take it wrong, and read that because it works there, it could work in the USA as well.  And I was making sure anyone who read that didn't get the wrong idea.  Because that same thing has happened before in these very forums.  It wasn't so much a direct reply to what you said to who you were responding to, more of a general response to what you said. 

Vast majority of criminals aren't doing crimes with nothing to lose.  To say that is ill-informed and idiotic.  Criminals are still people, and they don't want to get shot, and they don't want to die.  Just get in a corner where it's hard to see you, preferably on the other side of a bed so your hands can be kept steady.  Yell out a warning that you have a gun, are willing to use it, and if necessary, fire a warning shot.  That should be all you need to do in the majority of cases.  Criminals make stupid decisions, but they aren't completely ignorant.  They aren't going to go rushing into a place where they could wind up dead if they know about it.

Oh alright :P Sorry I tend to skim through longer posts, must of missed that.

I was guessing people would of just assumed that I wasn't saying that system would work in the US because of my previous posts.