See where you stand on Self Defense...

World's Smallest Self-Defense Quiz

-- Powder (Powder47keg@aol.com), February 07, 2000

Answers

I have no inhibition to use a gun if the
circumstances warrant. The questions at
the above link assume that using a gun is
your only option. I personally feel confident
to disarm a person at close range or drive any
local object at a high speed accurately towards
a small target.

Yes, use a gun if you are not trained in any
other form of self-defense. Remember that there
are many other options that don't require a gun.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), February 07, 2000.

Did you know that giant octopi are killed by the fisherman biting them between their eyes? It works for them, but I'd rather have potential criminals know that if they victimize people in my state, that they take their chances at being shot and killed. This way, at least the rational home invader has second thoughts about doing the crime. Just check the crime rates in New York and DC where guns are not allowed. Only the outlaws have guns, and that is a very very bad thing.

BTW, did you ever see the bank robbery scene in the movie, "Bronco Billy?" Check it out sometime.

-- (formerly@nowhere.zzz), February 07, 2000.

FYI

Bureau of Justice Statistics Home page

Bureau of Statistics Home Page

-- Dee (t1colt556@aol.com), February 07, 2000.

From the above gov link.

When an offender had a weapon, it was most likely to be a
firearm or an object used as a weapon such as a rock, club,
or a blackjack. Over a third of all armed assaults were
committed by an offender using an object as a weapon, and
slightly less than a third by an offender with a firearm.
Offenders with a firearm committed 21% of all serious
victimizations (rape, sexual assault, robbery, and
aggravated assault). About half of armed robberies
(53%) and armed rape or sexual assaults (44%) were
committed by an offender using a firearm.

Looks like the criminals are armed and dangerous.
The people need to defend themselves.

It's interesting that they provide no statistics as
to how many crimes were averted because the potential
victim had a weapon.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), February 07, 2000.

>> BTW, did you ever see the bank robbery scene in the movie, "Bronco Billy?" Check it out sometime. <<

For what? Pure entertainment?

Or are you under the false impression that Hollywood movies represent anything but the avergae juvenile fantasy?

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), February 07, 2000.

Australia is the place to look. Introduced gun control a few years back, & the burglary rate has sky-rocketed since.

But we never learn squat from other countries, do we?

-- more bad stuff (happening@down.under), February 07, 2000.

This test must assume that most folks have been issued a concealed weapons permit.

-- Sifting (through@the.rubble), February 07, 2000.

Brian,

For fun.

Do you always assume that other people are idiots and you are superior or just usually?

Geez.

-- (formerly@nowhere.zzz), February 07, 2000.

Well I took the test and all the perpetuators are toast. I only wounded the mountain lion though.

And that was after firing a warning shot.

-- ~***~ (~***~@earth.ebe), February 07, 2000.

The right to bear arms goes hand in hand with the right to vote. In those states with will issue concealed weapons permit laws on the books MHO is that each and every citzen should carry. It's the responsible thing to do. Then people will begin to realize that it's not only the bad people that carry guns or that people with guns are bad always the bad guys.

Carrying a weapon is truely very politically incorrect. It's time that changed.

-- (candor@mindspring.com), February 07, 2000.

Sifting, not all states offer the privledge of carrying concealed. Ohio does not but gives 4 affirmative defenses.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), February 08, 2000.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

I don't see how they score this test. Although I answered all questions with "yes, I would use the gun" I scored a 66%. In actual fact, I doubt I would have a gun handy in any of these situations, but the test wouldn't know that, given the way it is worded.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), February 13, 2000.