Home Defense

[SMS]

My concern with laying a loaded pistol next to a flashlight and cell phone on top of the nightstand would be if an intruder got in the house before I or the Misses awoke and saw them lying there before I got to them,

If they can defeat layers of locks, doors, alarms, then creep into my room and grab sh$t off my night stand...all without waking me or my wife then, well, I'm being attacked by ninjas and I'm screwed anyway. LOL.

A gun by the bed is only one aspect of home security.

 

[338Shooter]

What is it, more people are killed every year with .22lr than anything else? Why are you still fiddling with a shotgun? You're free to choose the ammo you wish to carry in the gun you wish to carry. You're even free to quote anecdotal evidence that supports that decision. I don't care what you carry. I just know that if I was doing something unwise for unwise reasons I'd be happy for someone that knew better than me to give me a heads up. I definitely wouldn't accuse them of being insulting.

 

[gillman7]

This has the potential for an epic thread!!

Are you a new operator to this theatre? "Unwilling to disclose past training?" Seriously?

No one was jabbing at you, just asking simple questions, but you are turning this into a seriously epic thread!!

13 year old boys sticking knives in your kidneys, pregnant 16 year old girls.

 

[mons meg]

Do we actually know what load she used in the shooting in Blanchard? I had heard slug somewhere, now I'm hearing birdshot.

 

[David2012]

Just because someone has 14,000+ posts to their credit doesn't make them in anyway more knowledgeable about the things they write about than someone else... only that they have a heck of a lot of opinions they want everyone to know about.

 

[David2012]

I was asking a queston about the load she was using.. not making a statement... hence the ? mark.

It is plain to see that there are a few long time posters on the forum that like to play the school yard bullies.

And, ... there is a federal training center that does that kind of training with real actors... in many diverse scenerios... it teaches officers & soldiers not to get tunnel vision when they roll up on a scene.... even the U.N. peace keepers / troops get some of this training.

 

[druryj]

New to this theater myself, and I think that a high-speed-low-drag paint ball gun is just the ticket!

 

[338Shooter]

Doesn't take 14000 posts to realize that goose loads are not well suited for personal defense.

 

[Bill Mac]

Amen to that SMS! Some crooks intent on quietly gaining access to your house when you have a two story and sleep in the second story and being a sound sleeper was my thought process there. Too much TV I guess! Anyone intent on protecting themselves from mindless thugs and evil hordes will as you suggest have multiple layers of defenses. Ours starts with two dogs.

 

[O4L]

It is plain to see that there are a few long time posters on the forum that like to play the school yard bullies.

I have noticed this too.

Some of them even have a business, or services offered here, wanting forum members for their customers, and they still don't know how to be civil, and respectful of others.

I think it is the "I'm kind of a big deal on the internet" syndrome.