Sounds like neither did you.

Define "advantage" here. See, I take it to mean "the ability to prevent harm from occurring." In which case, the bullets are only more effective than other methods if you're ready to kill someone. And I'm not. And I think anyone who IS ready and willing to kill for any reason, even in the name of "self defense", when…

I didn't specify the different forms of "violate" because it doesn't matter to my point. No violation is enough to justify killing. Ever.

I don't know about this. I hear from some people (cue unnecessary shifty eyes) that there's a Web site called something like Dirty Homemade Videos (or something like that...it's been awhile since I've—I mean, since some people have been on there) that's free and all home videos. So, Joe and Jane Schmo sex tapes, not…

If you're seeing Viagra commercials, I don't think that's My Little Pony you're watching...at least, not the official version. Just an Internet version.

I just wanted to respond to this: "Greatest country in the world, huh?"

Only if God is now an excitation of a field that gives things the property of mass and nothing else...but I've never heard him described that way. Except in the term "God particle" of course.

So experiment with them beforehand. Learn to use the weapons just like you (hopefully) learned to use a gun before you needed it. All weapons require prior training to use properly, whether we're talking about a pistol or a Taser or pepper spray.

"If I have a gun, you have to convince me to let you kill me."

Pliers have a use that doesn't involve injury. Guns don't. Target practice can be done with airsoft or paintball guns (which aren't lethal). Hunting is pretty much never done with handguns. There's no real use for handguns outside of injuring or killing people. Whether that's in self-defense or not doesn't mean…

5% end up dead? 5% is a lot. You can hide it in statistical numbers all you want, but unless you put an absolute number on that (i.e. by stating the number of encounters considered when coming up with the 5% number), it means nothing.

I didn't say that. They've already shown it's reversible, so whatever side effects it may have, permanent infertility is not one of them.

Right. Because Tasering someone and spraying their face with pepper spray is just as nice as hugging and kissing. With that attitude, I guess a bullet to the head is as kind as a playful slap on the wrist.

Yes, effective nonlethal alternatives. You questioned that, but didn't elaborate on which part of that concept you don't understand, so I can't really help you much more than saying "yes, they exist".

First of all, two shots is more than enough when you only need one hit to completely immobilize the attacker. Second of all, if you can't hit a target with a Taser, you wouldn't be able to hit the target with a gun, either. Third of all, if you really need the extra shots, get some ShockRounds. I'm fine with those in…

Yes. You're showing the times someone wasn't stopped by a Taser; depending on where the shot hits, people have been able to keep going after being shot with a bullet, too. Why didn't you also mention those times? If your point is that X is not as effective as Y, you need to include evidence not only that X isn't…

That's much better done than I expected! It's really cool :) . But, Molly, please don't encourage the term "God particle". It's inaccurate, irrelevant, and makes people flip out over the name -_- . I wish the media had never started that.

Aw, you think I'm intelligent? You deserve a hug! :P

You are making assumptions that you know nothing about. I lost a family member in the 9/11 attacks. I think the people responsible are terrible, horrible people that deserve to be locked away from the rest of humanity forever and a day. Yet I still don't think it would help anything to kill them. Life is life; killing…

What I hate most about the pro-gun "protectionists" (i.e. the ones who say guns are good because they offer protection) is that I have not once heard one of those people acknowledge the existence of less lethal forms of protection. If I happen to bring it up, I get one of the following two answers: "They're not as…