What? Oh, I see. Fine...fine. Ahem! That would never happen to me, because I'm a superhero! He was a cop so he doesn't count as a gun owner. But, but....... From My Cold Dead Hands! There. Happy?
I'm wondering why this guy only wounded his prey. What I hear most is that you aim at center mass. And I'm also surprised he didn't empty the clip and then reload.
I didn't. Like I said - once. Dad was big on practical lessons. The classic Red Foreman "Bet you won't do THAT again" kinda thing. I usually didn't.
Problem with many gun owners (not with gun ownership in general) is that they fantasize about a home invasion. These types aren't buying them just for protection. They can't WAIT for someone to try to mug them or try to break in so they can pull out those guns and blast away. They have some heroic fantasy. Seriously. There are a lot of reasonable folks owning guns but those aren't the types who buy 18 different kinds and have guns at the center of their political, social, and recreational lives.
Cough /jeriko/ cough Ooooh it was sooo funny when he thought it had actualy happened, and it turned out to 2 delivery guys at the wrong house. I bet his little insane heart was going 10 to the dozen and all those thoughts of "this is it!, this is finally it!" going round his tiny brain I'd love to have seen that
And that's a problem with many gun grabbers. The lump everyone in to a specific motivation if it's not one they can understand. I don't ever want to have to shoot someone. But I'd much rather have to shoot someone than watch my family brutalized and or murdered. It isn't even fucking close. Anyone who can't understand that is a coward of such phenomonal stripe that it's difficult to believe any of them exist. Amazingly however they do. Is it possible an invader will ever break into your home? Certainly - happened to my family when I was 5, though thankfully we weren't home then. If you acknowledge the possibility, the question becomes how can you protect yourself if it happens. Relying on the police to protect you is sheer stupidity - it would be sheer random luck if they happened to be nearby and respond quickly enough to do something about the situation. Or should you practice responsibility and self-reliance, if you can't count on anyone else to protect you? I never hear an answer that even comes close to the reality of the situation from the gun grabbers.
This made me laugh. Poor little Demiurge. So frightened about the burglary of his home that he has vowed to be prepared to catch the next mofo's that try it.
Indeed. I have somewhere around that many guns, all acquired during a few years when I first got into the hobby (I tend to do that when I find a new hobby). The ONLY politics I follow are gun-related, I have a couple of friends through shooting, and enjoy target shooting. Though I haven't been able to GO shooting in a couple of years, because I'm far from rabid about it and it's a pain to get to a range in NJ. So I'm exactly the guy you're describing, but the lack of shooting doesn't bother me at all, and if I believed in a god I'd pray I never have to shoot anybody. Guns are only a PART of my life, like any hobby, and only one of many safety devices around the house, like an extinguisher.
One of OH's friends had his house broken into recently, while he, his wife and two little kids were asleep upstairs. OH's friend woke up as the intruders were leaving in his car. He called the police upstairs from his mobile phone, and apparently it took them two hours to arrive. When OH's friend went downstairs to survey what had gone, he found a huge carving knife left on his sofa by the burglars. They were obviously armed for confrontation. It's set off a bit of a debate in OH's circle of friends as to whether we need to reform gun laws as OH's friend felt helpless to defend his family. All he can do is put his house on the market and try to move to a better area. OTOH, there's definitely some nutcases around here I would worry about if they had access to guns. Part of the problem is that as a nation we don't know how to treat or handle firearms any more.
We do. Seriously, where OH's friend lives, it doesn't matter. Alarms go off all the time and no-one bats an eyelid, and burglars - probably strung out on something - are really quite brazen as they know nothing happens.
That would be a good first line of defense, but it's not the last line of defense when the creep is standing in your bedroom at 3:00 AM with a carving knife in hand. If the cops take two hours to respond, then you are in a YOYO situation. (YOYO- You're On Your Own)
I will never understand why people live around drug addicts and other lowlifes. You get what you get. I would move really quick.
I can't live my life worrying about such stuff. I do what I can but I don't dwell on it. Many people seem to have this intense fear that someone will come and murder them. I know it happens but I don't cloud my mind with such thoughts. It would be hard to sleep at night. And then we have people who want us to worry with their stories like the above. Comments like...'see if ya had a gun, that wouldn't happen.' lets look at a residential block. Maybe one or two homes get robbed. Maybe someone gets hurt. The odds are still in your favor that ypu are safe behind your four walls.
Damned skippy! I remember when I was a teenager, the only time I ever stayed out past 10PM was when I was...out partying and fucking around.
Not too long ago, I came home from work during the day to get lunch. I came in thru the garage, walked into my room at the back of the house, and as I was coming out I saw that the front door had been kicked in. All I could think was "Oh shit." I had no idea when it had happened. I'd been home only a couple of hours earlier to get some papers, so I knew it was somewhat recent. Were they still in the house? I had no idea. So I grabbed the phone, ducked into the garage and called 911. As I was on the phone with the dispatcher, I realized that at any moment whoever might be in the house could just walk in, shoot me, rape me, whatever, and I had absolutely no way to defend myself. It was terrifying. The dispatcher told me I ought to get out of the house, if possible, as quickly as I could. Opening the side door out of the garage was one of the scariest things I ever had to do, cause I kept seeing some dark, hulking intruder standing on the other side waiting for me. No one was there, but as I was trying to open the gate, I heard my next-door neighbor start screaming at the top of her lungs, and then I heard footsteps coming my way. Thankfully, it was a cop, and I put my hands up, told him who I was, and made my way out front. Nothing was stolen from my house because, thankfully, my old, blind, and gimpy dog (She has a bone tumor in one of her femurs) chased the intruders out before they even got past the living room. A chair was moved, presumably to seperate themselves from the dog, and the lantern from the front porch had been tossed on the couch to scare her off, but nothing was stolen. Unfortuneately, my neighbor had all of her computers stolen. Her son's room, which was locked, had its door busted down and cleaned out. And the sliding glass door was shattered. I found out that she'd left only 30 minutes ago to get something from the grocery. Meaning that I missed being in the house with the intruders by minutes. After this, I find myself believing that maybe I do need a gun...in spite of stories like the one posted in this thread.
Same here. But the dad at 41 yrs old is no old fogey. He needed to have a better relationship with his kid.
Ya know, I will never understand some people. YOU STAYED IN THE GARAGE WHICH HAD A DOOR INTO THE HOUSE? You were in shock right. You get the hell out, quick fast and in a hurry. My mother came home and the alarm was going off. She friggin' still goes in the house. I happened to call at that moment. I had to freakin' yell at my Mom to get out of the house. I tell her to call Dad. She says she doesn't want to bother him. Some people still end up putting themselves in danger. Oh, and nothing was taken. They tried to enter a bathroom window but took off. But she didn't know that.
Notice my post says "(not gun ownership in general)". So I'm not advocating "grabbing guns". I'm simply criticizing certain individuals who are living in a fantasy action-movie world. My personal opinion is to allow gun ownership, but I'm also for 100% personal accountability on what people DO with those guns. Owning guns comes with a lot of responsibility. You'd better use them legally and as safely as possible.
That actually did give me a little start. But its almost time to go home and I needed something to wake me up.
And you've never forgiven them for that horrible five minutes when you couldn't find Hobbes, and then it turned out he was hiding in the coat closet?
