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In reply to the discussion: Man shopping for coffee creamer at Walmart attacked by vigilante for carrying gun he was legally per [View all]Orrex
(63,203 posts)Specifically, when I was younger, and they activated once to alert us to a damaged furnace churning out torrents of oil smoke in the middle of the night, and another time to let us know that a candle had caught flame in a different room and had set a small table ablaze.
I'd say that those are two good examples. And shame on my mom for leaving a candle burning unattended.
I see your point, but OTOH I've never heard of a smoke detector being used to kill anyone in a fit of anger. Not many toddler deaths resulting from accidental discharge of a smoke detector, nor many suicides.
There's an interesting case to be made in terms of a gun's preventative value, if we view it as a failsafe device akin in that way to a smoke detector, but I'd still have to weigh that against the real potential for lethality, where the comparison breaks down.
Thank you for the kind words and courtesy.