For what it’s worth, you’re overestimating the difficulty of using a firearm safely.
I may be. Even so, it’s not really something I’m comfortable with (which I didn’t know before—it’s getting clearer the more we talk about it here) and I doubt I’d benefit from having one. It’s not just that I think I’d freeze rather than using it, it’s also that the idea of having one close enough to me that I could grab it in an emergency kind of freaks me out, and I expect I’d start keeping it stashed uselessly on a shelf in a closet at the first excuse.
I may be. Even so, it’s not really something I’m comfortable with (which I didn’t know before—it’s getting clearer the more we talk about it here) and I doubt I’d benefit from having one. It’s not just that I think I’d freeze rather than using it, it’s also that the idea of having one close enough to me that I could grab it in an emergency kind of freaks me out, and I expect I’d start keeping it stashed uselessly on a shelf in a closet at the first excuse.
Useful, thanks.