Thread: Girl-Friendly Home Defense

Originally Posted by sycld

Okay faesce, whatever you say, even though I thought you'd be intelligent enough to realize that I'm referring to the same situation and not anyone living in any setting anywhere.

The first part was clearly in reference to her situation, however the second part of your post was not and shows no indication that it was. You should attempt to think about what you say if you don't want it misinterpreted (which it wasn't--because I'm pretty sure you actually think dogs are a bad home security measure) Here's the second part of your reply, feel free to point out where you specified that you weren't making a generalization about dog ownership.

"Finally, you can actually take a gun out of the house, leave it at home when you're away, get rid of it easily if you don't feel like you want it anymore, etc. Buying a dog that's trained to maim attackers requires far, far greater commitment than getting a gun. I don't see how anyone could even seriously suggest it for home defense to be honest, unless you have people dedicated to the dog's care or you're an insane militant moutaineer who thinks the government is constantly out to get you."

Originally Posted by sycld

Show me statistics that say that a lot of young single people living in urban or sub-urban settings have guard dogs, especially considering that increasingly more and more local governments are explicitly banning breeds of "dangerous" dogs, especially bulldogs.

Almost any breed capable of becoming large can be trained and utilized as a guard dog, and if you don't already know that dogs are widely used as defense, no amount of statistics will sway your fabricated vision.

Originally Posted by sycld

I have no interest in having this stupid argument with you. Do you have Now if you'll pardon me, I'm going to go and build a fence topped with barbed wire around my house's perimeter as a practical home defense solution.

You're the one creating an absurd notion that goes against common sense. Also, home fortification goes a lot farther than fencing in your yard, but I'm sure you already knew how big of a deterrent a camera/lights/secured doors/windows/etc can be before you decided to make a sarcastic remark regarding fortifcation.