Say, how bad are your friggin neighborhoods, you're laying in wait for these roving gangs of rapist burglars? My entire 32 years on this planet, we had one break in thief, and it was from the neighborhood Avon lady, she wasn't home, and he let himself in through the unlocked front door, he just took cash, and trinkets, and candy, and we're such a small community, we all knew it was Ricky, and he was shamed the next day. I dunno, maybe this is fuckin Mayberry.
I was thinking more of concealed carry. As far as home protection goes, I think owning a gun to protect against an armed intruder is an irrational fear. I think having a gun in the house is more likely to result in the death of one of the persons living there than an intruder. I'd give it the same priority as I would protecting against falling airplanes. Unless you live in a rough neighborhood. Is Jersey that rough? Here's an interesting study. It concludes that areas with higher gun ownership have higher homicide rates. It also remarks that about 1 in 3 households own at least one gun. What are the statistics for concealed carry? I'd guess around 1 in 100 adults.
You'd be wrong then, and buying into leftist propaganda. Piper Cherokee crashed into my wife's aunt's neighbor's house in 1982. Blue Angels jet scattered across a neighborhood couple weeks ago. Then there's 9/11. My deli girl was beat up and robbed in Irvington last week. My area's pretty safe except for the occasional burglary. The opposite of every study I've read in recent years, including FBI studies And, unsurprisingly, a study conducted in one of the most anti-gun states of all, home of the Kennedys. I've heard an even 50% of households. That I don't know. I think I've heard a stat of several tens of thousands per state. More in Texas. Less in Jersey.
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Yeah, like most things Texan, it looked bigger in the box too. Do you still drive by every night on the way home in hopes that that guy will come back for his boots?
Sigmund Freud found that hoplophobia, fear of weapons, was a manifestation of male insecurity. Further, he found projection a common problem among those with ill-suited emotional control.
I'll go along with that, even if it is counterintuitive; gun ownership is a palliative for insecurity. But the unspoken corollary is fear of gungrabbers is displaced repressed male homosexuality... Oh, and I think you're cute.
To answer El Chup a little. When I took my CCL class a few weeks back, of the 7 in the class 3 were women. I have a .44 magnum, and .38 I don't need to brag, I'm a woman. If you were going to hear me brag it would also have to include the other little things I do like teach, clean, take care of my daughter or put a big o'l smile on my husbands face . But as a woman I don't feel the need to brag about my accomplishments it's a girl thing what can I say.
So what were your reasons for doing so besides penis envy? I can't imagine the Oklahoma hoods outside of SE Hinton novels being that scary.
You weren't on the west side of downtown OKC the other day. And that's the good side . The east side is even worse. Seriously dude, when I'm out working on my grapes or someone else's, people from the road can see me. At when it gets to be about 5 pm or so the drunks start driving the back roads and some of them are one beer away from thinking NO is a joke. I don't know where you are from but take your mayberry stereotyping attitude and shove it up your ass.
Not everywhere is the same. I'm not sure what you are getting at, seriously I don't. Every part of the world has it's bad spots, so is your imagination so lacking that you think all of Oklahoma is mayberry? I will be sure to let the kid who who was gang banged as an initiation rite to join his high school baseball team know that. Or the victims of any one of the gang related deaths know that this is mayberry and that it was all in their imagination, and they can get up out of the ground now. Or how about all the drugs that come through the I-40 corridor/I-35 highway line, they can't possibly cause any crime. Or the fact that I can think of one prominent farmer in the area who willingly lets semi's with drug shipments use his barns to over night. Because the drug trade doesn't just take the highway anymore. This in no way has any barring on the fact that I live in "mayberry", OK. I will be sure to go on the news at 6 and 10 and let everyone know that we live in bum fuck Oklahoma and to not worry about crime it is all in our imagination. I'm supposed to have penis envy because I own a gun?
And personally being a woman I am paranoid about being raped aside from suffocation it would be my next in line for nightmare. And I'm not a fatty so I have a reason to be paranoid and want to protect myself. This is mostly for Mrs A. (I took it for you and thought I would use it here ) IMAGE REMOVED BY REQUEST
Don't pay any attention to Steve, his views are probably as distorted about guns - being surrounded by so many - as Flashlight's are about the threat of fundie Christians taking over the US. Or as my views are about lefties, surrounded as I am by them in NY. Christ, you couldn't even shoot a high powered rifle here, in any direction, without hitting at least a few of them . . .
shooter what can I say I love the color if not the school. Tuttle for that too. Ramen Awwww it likes to have and with that it is time to get back to mowing the grass.
