You said you’d own one if you moved to the states, why not here?
Because the only thing I can legally hunt as a food source here (without considerable litigious difficulty) are the rabbits on my land. I can’t really eliminate supermarket meat buying and replace it with rabbit meat, whereas I could actually do that if I had access to deer, elk, moose or pig.
The self defence aspect isn’t bourne out of some deep harbored desire to shoot people, rather out of an honest assessment of being helpless as an unarmed man in the face of men armed with guns in a country awash with guns, as per my earlier posts.
I’ve posted before that I don’t conceal weapons I wouldn’t be comfortable using – that’s because I do not want to kill people, or cripple them with dangerous weapons. I feel the same way about guns but if I was confronted with the likely reality of dealing with home invaders armed with guns I would have to be rational and respond in kind to at least create a stalemate.
Again, many people on this forum seem okay with braining people with a cricket bat or iron bar, in case they meet a more aggressive person with similar weapons. The same logic applies to guns