amplt1337's Journal: My Thoughts On Guns as Self-Defense

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Re: Jeff Cooper and the scout rifle. I'm sure it's a fine weapon -- it sounds like an excellent killing device, and there's times and places where an excellent killing device is what is needed.
But when you're talking about hitting a man-sized target from 450 meters, YOU ARE NO LONGER TALKING ABOUT SELF-DEFENSE. No legitimate self-defense tool has a scope. Property defense, perhaps; but part of living in a first-world country is that we accept that property defense is rightfully the jurisdiction of the law and its enforcers.