A different response might be something like this:
When I call the cops because someone is breaking into my house they will show up to face that threat, someone breaking into my house, with standard capacity magazines in their pistols (15-20) and ARs (30).
They are not showing up to "kill as many as possible". They are simply carrying the right tools to face an unknown threat.
I am an American Citizen and the 2nd Amendment allows me the right to keep and bear arms for several reasons. One of those reasons is self defense and I choose the same types of arms as my local police department because I face the same threats as my local police department.
Or you could just start screaming "Molon Labe" as you dance in a circle around him.
good stuff indeed, but I always use my wife as my example
I used to guide and would be gone from 4-6 weeks at a time when our kids were small.
our bedroom is upstairs, kids bedrooms are downstairs, we live a little remote, specially back then before more development took place, we were surrounded by 9 acres of woods.
she has a handgun safe, that used to contain a .38 police positive as that was what I taught her to shoot with, a surefire flashlight and a prepaid cellphone in the little safe under our bed.
now that same safe contains all the same items but with a Glock 22 with a 15 round magazine instead, tritium night sights and lasermax laser guide rod, we purchased it many moons ago while our kids were still small. A panic button alarm is high up on the wall, to wake the kids and for them to go to the safe, hiding room downstairs and lock the door from the inside.
evidence is out there for anyone that is willing to read, our "trained" LEO often expend numerous rounds for every hit on bad guys.
why? I think because of stress, in highly stressful situations such as combat, form and training often go out the window and adrenaline and muscle memory take over.
in the event of a home invasion, I don't think my wife should be forced to have to switch magazines until absolutely necessary.
I always told her, if the dogs are barking and you hear something crashing through our door, first dial 9-11 and fire 3 rounds through our bedroom ceiling.
the way our house is positioned, she could cover the stair well that leads to our kids bedrooms, and still have 12 rounds left before she ever had to worry about changing mags, hold the phone in one hand talking to the cops, and the pistol in the other ready to destroy anyone that headed downstairs or towards our bedroom.
the dogs are a big help as they will be on whomever decided to break in and she'll know by noise roughly where the perp(s) would be.
also you'll know if they shoot the dogs and how intent they are
my "hope" was by hearing the first 3 rounds go through the roof, most criminals would flee, however if they did not, you know you have to use deadly force because you're up against a determined enemy.
don't surrender your weapon for any reason, until cops are swarming the house
if two bad guys busted in, she's got 6 rounds for each (if she fired 3 into the ceiling)
based on the evidence, that's not a lot of rounds, and you can do the math, if there's 3 guys that's 4 rounds each, 4 only if 3 guys.
I see no reason why the actions of others that are criminal intended that she should be deprived of the most effective means to protect what she holds most dear, our children, by legislation of cowards.
in fact the mere instance of home invasions is telling imo, how many of those are performed by folks with squeaky clean records?
I'd say very few, I'd suggest (though I don't have evidence to support it) that most of them have been to advanced school for criminals, prison, at least once before.
that in itself is a proof positive that the criminal justice system that is supposed to protect the innocent like my wife and children has failed miserably to do so.
until they get that part of it figured out, please don't support legislation by cowards and those that can afford to live in ivory towers surrounded by bodyguards that leaves my wife or kids in a more vulnerable and difficult situation to protect what we hold most dear, our kids, our lives and our liberties.
my wife is a gentle being, no desire to shoot anyone, unless they would do harm to our kids.
I believe along with our last defense against a tyrannical gov't, it's what the 2nd intended, give the weak and the outnumbered a fighting chance to save those they love when faced with the most dire of consequences.
I curse a gov't or a people that would take steps to prevent my loving wife from protecting what she holds most dear because we choose to live in a more rural type setting.
