Most road commuters don't even have luggage
When I've traveled, by road, to another state, for at least 24 hours, I've taken luggage
The safe room would be an alternative to the gun and so there'd be no gun around for an accident to occur
If Americans spent their money on home fortifications instead of guns then they'd be far better off
The very reasoning, why your home is safer from gun related death/injury, if there's no gun in it
Owning a gun in the home, increases the chances of such an incident happening
Boil the kettle or else fill it with corrosive acids or bases and you'd have a potentially deadly weapon
You do if you boil just water, or use corrosive acids without heating them
Either way, in this universe, people do not defend their homes with a water cannon or a high-powered hose
As I said, "
wrong" isn't even close to describing your lunatic fantasies
many people might gasp at an amputation but not an actual death from a stab wound
Because of the perceived discomfort/pain
People would react more to a death by being boiled alive than merely by being shot or stabbed
Body armour wouldn't be enough to protect against aerial irritants like pepper spray...
Body armor isn't designed to protect against chemical or biological attack. (It's not designed to protect against nuclear attack either)
Body armor is designed to protect penetration of the body, from projectiles of a specified class, over the areas of the body where it's worn
Why would you think that anyone else,
would think that body armor protects from chemical/biological attack ?
An air rifle is more powerful than an air-pistol and so the air-rifle could penetrate most body armour deep enough to sting with a single round.
Please give an example of such an "air rifle", and an example of (modern) body armor that it can penetrate
An air-pistol is semi-auto and so even if it doesn't go as deeply into the metal plates it can still fire at the same location in quick succession
Please give an example of a semi-automatic air pistol (or air rifle for that matter), because I've never seen one.
it's almost easier for a machine gun to hit the same place twice than a sniper rifle because there's less time between rounds for your hand and your enemy to move.
A person with a rifle will shoot more accurately, the more time he/she takes between shots
Have you ever seen a rifle competition ?
Air-rifles are normally single-shot devices
Not normally, but always.
That can be true overall but not necessarily individually since some terrorist bombings can kill far more people than domestic serial killers
And a woman, in a domestic violence incident, can kill more people that a terrorist in a bomb attack.
A state can spend far more on the police than the military for the general population during peacetime but pro rata more is often spent on catching an individual terrorist than an individual criminal. For example it requires much more transport costs for detectives to find foreign terrorists on the other side of the planet. If an assassin stocked up on enough food to last a lifetime and forever lived in bunker beneath a national park without ever coming out, then there's very little the police could do about it.
And a state can spend far more on cleaning public toilets, in a year, than it spends catching one or two terrorists
eg: the Boston bombers were caught fairly quickly.
"While bulgur biscuits and synthetic protein grains may have been the government’s idea of the perfect fallout shelter food, many ordinary Americans turned to more conventional options when it came to stocking their emergency pantries. Canned vegetables and beans and preserved meats (think Spam and hot dogs) were popular choices, along with peanut butter, boxed cereals, canned juices, drink mixes and packaged crackers and cookies."
Or freeze dried food.
K rations versus C rations.
