Comments by "Adam Bainbridge" (@AdamMGTF) on "Fiji in World War Two: the Momi Bay Gun Battery" video.

 @digitaal_boog you know in most of the world, home defence means remembering to lock your door at night
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@Redbird1504 country? Can't do it. But vast areas of countries. Yes absolutely. I live in a very large town. I'd happily walk the streets at midnight with a month's wages in my pocket and nothing but the clothes on my back. A home invasion outside of the biggest cities is so rare it makes national news. In my home I have items of significant personal and monetary value (inherited coins as an example). I have never once thought I should lock my door during the day. As a side note. I own 2 fire arms for sport (why I enjoy forgotten weapons). They aren't kept in my house, infact they aren't even in my home town 😂. It's inconceivable that I would need such a thing to keep me or my family safe. After all. I lock my door on a night when I go to sleep. What more could I possibly need? If you live in a dangerous place, then I am sorry for that. But it doesn't make my point ridiculous at all.
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@Redbird1504 well in civilised countries. You don't normally have to worry about people with weapons attacking your home. That's what the rule of law is for 😁
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@Kneon_Knight ok. But I don't live there. As a side note. Where I live carrying a gun of any kind around with you would get you a significant prison sentence. Which I dare say is why people don't carry guns.... Which means I don't need one. It's also illegal to have a knife larger than 100mm (I think) on your person or a baseball bat if the intention is to do anything other than play baseball. I'm sure our laws can't be applied to Ohio. Because there you could already buy guns readily, cheaply, legally and easily. Here you can't. So the bad man who wants to rob you probably has his fists or a bat and your best defence would be to run away. Assuming such a thing happened which is rare.
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@bcb5696 and I hope that's my point in a nutshell. We don't all live in the same place and applying ones own values to another who's circumstances are different is obviously folly. I hope your home country can become more secure so that the rule of law keeps you safe. Rather than being scared for your safety. I'm incredibly lucky I live in such a place and I know that.
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@terrastriker5684 where would they get a gun? It's very very difficult to do so in my country. And if a group of armed men managed to get in my house I can't see how it would help me to have a weapon. Could criminals get guns here? I'm sure they could. But using a firearm in a robbery takes it from a crime where you would get months in prison. To decades. Crime involving guns is very very serious even if nobody is actually shot. And if a group or even one armed person manages to force my door and enter my house. They can take what the hell they want. If they've come to kill me, I'm dead either way (though I live in middle class suburbia where as I said, such things don't happen.) As a side note. Saying something "could" happen isn't a reason for me to take leave of my senses and have a gun in the house. Putin could drop a chemical warhead on my town. I don't have an air tight bunker just incase and I think that's more likely than anyone with a gun wandering around my home town.
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@jasonnorthcutt3771 well, my first thought would be to work out what 280 pounds means, and I would call the police. Not in that order.
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@bcb5696 yes, I admit as a lower middle class self employed man who doesn't yet own his own home and has less than a week's wage in savings. I'm incredibly privileged and isolated. I'm also very lucky that I live in a place where such a chap would never think they need anything more than a locked door to feel safe. I did pour on the sarcasm there. But it's also all true
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