Fuck off, little cunt. As I mentioned before, I don't currently own a gun. However, anyone who thinks it can't happen to them is a fucking idiot, even if they live in a nice area of town. Oh, and I remember you talking about the reason you didn't get the police involved with people in your neighborhood comitting crimes was because you were afraid of what they might do to you - it just wasn't worth it. Of course, being 5 foot nothing, a buck fifty wet means that any confrontation is one that you will need to run away from. So at least you come by your cowardice inherently.
I had good relationships with my parents, but there were a few times that I slipped out of the house to go partying and fucking around. A distant cousin of mine, who along with her husband happens to be a very good and involved parent, still had to have ADT install an alarm system on their home to keep their teenage daughter from slipping out. About 9 or 10 years ago, a friend of mine caught his 14yo daughter slipping out at night to meet her boyfriend. He spanked her with a belt and grounded her. She called social services on him and so the parents were investigated and regularly visited by a social worker. At that point, they became afraid to discipline their daughter. She got pregnant about 6 months later. I think kids today are wilder than we were. We didn't whup their little asses enough, social services won't let you discipline them, the schools aren't allowed to anymore, so now the kids are running wild. I think if one of my children ever called social services on me, when the social worker came to visit I'd just say, "Here! Take the little shit with you!"
No way! Really? Fuck that shit. [action=Man Afraid of his Shoes]puts all his guns in a row boat, rows out into the middle of a lake, and dumps them overboard.[/action]
What Mewa said. If I ever came home and saw that someone had obviously broken in, I wouldn't set foot inside until the police had had a look.
Yeah, the guy(s) who tried to break into our house were frightened off by the dogs. But their was obvious intent to break in, as someone used a glass cutter on the back door to try to get into the house. Didn't scare me about my stuffed animals (hey, I was 5, they were immortal, just like me), but it scared my mom, and I remember not liking that one bit. If you live in a society where the bad guys carry guns, if you ever need to defend your household and/or family odds are you will need one yourself.
Same here. Leto and Ghani are good kids and straight A students. Still they have their moments and when scolding or timeout doesn't work, it's amazing how one, single pop on the ass will get their attention. Likewise, I have some nephews that I'd like to flog.
I had to take my kids cellphone...again. Over 1200 text messages last month. She's driving me nuts with this phone shit.
I don't worry about such things either, and I sleep just fine at night. I don't worry about the odds, either. They are in my favor- someone breaks in, I shoot them. End of story. The people who need to be worried are the ones with no means, training, or desire to protect themselves. Fortune favors those who prepare.
Contrasted with the intense fear that someone in your household will be an idiot and shoot someone accidentally with a weapon, or the fear that so many have that even a person with a CCW is somehow a potential violent offender because they own a gun. The ones with the irrational fear of guns I don't get. It's just a tool, and if you respect it you shouldn't have a problem. Last year in the US, there were 3 accidental firearms deaths PER STATE. Almost completely negligible. I'd say your chances of getting your house broken into are a might higher than that. Hopefully if it does happen you aren't there, or if you are there the criminals aren't armed, or if they are armed all the want is your stuff. But lots of dead people hoped that. And of course the caveat that it keeps people like me up at night is silly - if it did I'd own a gun. But that doesn't mean I'm not aware of it, and that I don't understand the odds.
Yeah, the people who leave their doors and windows open at night. The ones that say, sure let them have it all. The ones that don;t take a personal protection course at their local college. But a gun, man that solves it all!
Oooh... Someone needs to e-mail this to Dan's Mom! Again, because Mewa views home invasion as a Right, not a Privilege. And the award for sweeping generalization of the year goes to...
Volpone, I share my home with my daughter. And my dad didn't walk around saying THIS IS MY HOUSE!!!! It was OUR home. Much thesame as the girl in the story. It was her home.
Yea, got that lesson coming across a field one night with my buddy yakking it up. Pop stepped around the corner of the house and I said "Hey Dad, whatcha doin' up?" just prior to glancing lower and looking down the barrell of an 1100 Remington. "You better say something boy..." was his response. Never did that again, he knew it was me from the gitgo from there out. Yea, shame about the kid in the story, wtf was she thinking? We can second guess the old man all day, but he did what he thought he needed to do to protect his family. Dumbass awards all around!
Anyone who isn't HOPING they get a chance to shoot somebody. That's pretty simple eh? Owning for fun, protection, etc is all fine. It's just that certain folks just sit at home fantasizing about a home invasion and how they are gonna blow somebodies fuckin' brains out.
If it's so simple, why did you have to complicate it up with "18 different kinds and have guns at the center of their political, social, and recreational lives."? What if someone has twenty different kinds of guns, votes the way the NRA tells them, and does IDPA instead of playing golf, but doesn't hope they get a chance to shoot somebody?
Oh, we shouldn't, but I find it an interesting test case. He's the one that seems to think 'many' gun owners are just drooling at the prospect of popping a bad guy. Because, you know, if you want to own a gun you have to be an immature idiot that is just looking for an excuse to kill somone. 'Many' of them. I think it states a lot more about the person that makes that claim then it does the individuals who actually own guns.
Well, it's common knowledge that when this particular gun owner got his chance to pop a bad guy, I gleefully put one in the head and two in the heart. Oh, wait a minute. No I didn't.
Sneaking out of the house at 18? Daughter looks like an anchor to me. Father should have aimed better, went back to bed, and conceived more ambitious children.
