the original question was why shoule I place my life on a battery....I merely suggested that you could get a brand new battery every month, obviously that would only apply to someone paranoid about the dependence of batteries.
as far as grandma's trusty fireare...great, I have several myself but you set up a scenario, so I will too.
Your family lives in a middleclass neighborhood in a large city. You leave for work every morning and your wife and young children are at home. Your wife feels secure knowing that she has a handgun and knows how to use it. She knows where it is, very handy to where she is, but in many cases the kids know where it is too. Wouldn't you feel more secure knowing that ONLY she could fire that gun? The kids can't, their friends can't, and in the unlikely event that an intruder got it away from her, ....he can't either.
Wouldn’t you feel more secure knowing that ONLY she could fire that gun? The kids can’t, their friends can’t, and in the unlikely event that an intruder got it away from her, ....he can’t either.
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Mine were ‘put away’ accessible to my Wife AND Daughters. They knew how to use them and were instructed you don’t point that at anyone unless you are ready and willing to use it.
My daughters knew that it was none of their friends business where my (our) guns were, and they also knew the daughters were not going to give them access to the liquor cabinet either.
My grandkids also know how and when to use a weapon.
You can’t be ‘scared’ of guns, they are here and best to let those you love have every advantage of protecting themselves. The more restrictions you put on a ‘tool’ the sillier it looks to those who KNOW what it is about.