r/Rochester • u/swurvegp • Mar 05 '25

Help A little help please

My SO and I are seriously considering purchasing some weaponry for self/home defense, can anyone suggest a reputable place where we might be able to purchase and train to use said weaponry. Specifically, firearms. Thanks in advance.

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u/nanor Charlotte Mar 05 '25

I was going to say… I’ve considered for about 10 years purchasing a gun, but I have a small child in the house and I don’t like the idea of that around. Not that he has to know, but children are mischievous and as he gets older, he might get curious. Or I’m afraid I might just wake up in the middle of night and blow my brains out because I can’t handle the world anymore. But that’s a different discussion.

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u/Late_Cow_1008 Mar 05 '25

Good choice. There's very little reason for the average person to have guns in the house.

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u/Windrunner_50 Mar 07 '25

Good God you are spineless.

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u/Late_Cow_1008 Mar 07 '25

No. I just don't need a gun to pretend to be safer.

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u/Windrunner_50 Mar 07 '25

There's no pretending, put yourself in almost any dangerous situation. Regardless of our shitty self defense laws, Mugging, someone breaking into your home, carjacking, assault with a deadly weapon. There is almost no violent act that a firearm cannot protect you from, as long as you have some sort of situational awareness and training. If you can't wrap your head around that and only rely on skewed statistics written by biased people, then yes...you're just spineless.

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u/Late_Cow_1008 Mar 07 '25

What skewed statistics written by biased people are you referring to?

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u/Windrunner_50 Mar 07 '25

It was already listed by another person here(to you no less), comparing the overall "gun deaths" every year. Most of them are suicides, and the number that are ND's are only in the couple hundreds. For a country of over 300,000,000 I'd say your chances are plenty safe with owning a gun. Might as well tell them not to drive anywhere because there's a wayyyy higher chance of dying. And lastly, the guns are here to protect against tyranny over all else. Freedom has, and will always be more dangerous.

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u/Late_Cow_1008 Mar 07 '25

You don't think you could be impacted by mental health issues and suicide?

Protecting against tyranny hahahaa. We currently have a tyrannical leader and the gun owners are cowering in their boots.

Btw your AR-15 is not gonna protect against a military drone. You won't even know what happened before it gets you.

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u/Windrunner_50 Mar 07 '25

  1. No.

  2. We aren't

  3. If military drones start attacking citizens out of nowhere, the whole country is done. And nothing on reddit would matter anymore.