I love how you bring up all these selective scenarios. He wouldn't be much of a burglar if he was trying to kill your family, now would he? And It's also funny how you assume that everyone in america has guns when it's quite obvious that a lot of people here don't. Obviously if you lived in an area where there was much crime, you would already have some long edged weapon of your own, or a crossbow at least.
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Oh so crossbows are okay then?
That makes this officially the most retarded debate ever!
"Lets ban guns so criminals cant shoot people, but lets keep crossbows!"... <_< Swiftu, you claim to follow logic, but sometimes... I wonder about you.
The scenario's pretense is irrelevant, it's the overall situation. You know this, you're just pussyfooting around it to distract people from the fact that you cannot answer that with your foolish nonsensical and weak anti-gun argument. And heh, even I own a shotgun. It's not typical to find a house in the US without a gun of some sort.
FYI. Crossbows aren't legal here, but people have them (including me, again).