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Lifestyle Choices
Having firearms in my house definitely makes it....
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Everything you do involves some level of risk.
There's a chance you could slip in the shower and crack your head open.
I don't want to be too graphic, but using your bat example again;
If he has a gun, you'll never get the opportunity to swing it.
If he has a knife, and you swing and miss, you won't get a second chance. It's over.
Yes there is the risk, that you could miss and injure someone else. But in your scenario there is a certainty that if you don't act you will be injured.
I don't know if you know of Dennis Miller since your fairly young, but he puts it very well when he says "If you're going to go to war, Go Roman" -
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I'm curious to know how many people here have had their house broken into. And of those who have, how many actually encountered the person breaking in? I hear a lot of people from the suburbs adamant about having guns... seems a little ironic. -
You've answered your own question and didn't even know it. No one breaks into houses with armed homeowners behind the door. In my community, almost everyone owns guns, and guess what? right! no one gets shot and very seldom does a home get broken into. If it happens, it's usually by a young crackhead who knows his\her victim.
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Yes I have had two people attempting brake into my house, about 12:30 AM. One tried to kick in the back door, when I got up with my 357 magmun fully loaded and ready to unload the look out standing at a window of a empty bed room seen me and yelled at the top of his lungs his got a gun. They ran so fast that all I could see was the old saying rearends and elbows. The police found their feet prints outside the house and the back door damaged, I was told by the police that it was a good thing I had a gun. Because they said anyone that would force their way into a home with cars in the drive way did not come to be nice.
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Gina it is not about the past as it is so much the future. It takes one time, just one time, for someone to change your life irreversibly with violence. Gun safety is a big part of gun ownership. I do think that they should have some type of psyche evaluation, not unlike an eye test, before you are permitted to carry a gun, just like I think a person should have to go through gun safety classes, just like a driver's license before they are permitted to carry a gun. A gun in the hands of a responsible person is a tool. A gun in the hands of someone who is mentally unstable, criminal, and or irresponsible is a tragedy waiting to happen. Does this mean a gun will save your life if you have one? No. The other guy may be a better shot or faster on the draw. What it does mean is that you have a fighting chance in a situation where someone absolutely intends you harm.
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We had our home broken into, and luckily we were not home at the time, but had we been home I am more thankful we had our gun then not, because at least we would have been able to defend ourselves against the intruder, one shot in the air, and I am pretty sure the scum would be running out the nearest exit he could find! A telephone call to 911 does not always mean a good outcome to the sitiuation! I'll take my chances with my guns rather then be a sitting duck to a criminal.
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Gina I will give you a story told to me by a friend from the Phillipines. He said we were lucky to have the second amendment protection. Asked why he said the y have to bar the doors and windows against thugs over there. Told him they do that here. His reply was that I did not understand. On two story houses they also bar the stairwell so if the thugs bust through they hopefully will not make it up top. That is sad.
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Honestly, I think it all depends on the person who owns them. I certainly wouldn't feel safe if someone told me they kept their gun under their pillow. No telling how trigger happy one can be in the heat of the moment. BUT, if they are repsonsible, they would put their weapons in a case under lock and key. I have a small hand gun in my closet. I keep it in a small box but in a quick to reach spot just in case someone breaks in. -
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Criminals might think twice before they come in your house to rob you or harm you if they know they might be looking down the barrel of a gun, if their to stupid to think and chances are they might be you can blow their head off, everyone is safer if they have the option of self defense. -
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The world is basically a dangerous place to live. I don't see that having a gun in the house, if properly handled, makes it more dangerous. But unless you need it for protection, it doesn't make it safer either. But the thought that you might have a gun in the house might. Unfortunately, when the police stop someone, the thought that anyone might have a gun can make it more deadly.
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I'd rather wake up to an intruder with a handgun in my hands over a cell phone.