Hey Nate

[SLEDIOT]

THis is the USA. You have a right.....no, you have an obligation, a duty, to protect yourself and your family. When I read about anti gun rights wanting to take away this right I want to just PUKE! If your life in threatened, and you have a weapon, it is your duty to use it.
I just got my wife a handgun. She has never shot a gun at all. So I showed her how to hold and shoot it. I says..."If any part of them crosses the threashold, let em have it, you have a right, a duty, an obligation, to protect my children.

Too much of this debate going on. Maybe we need to ceceed from the union and make our own rules, the reat of the US is going down a dark path, starting with California.
Am I making any sense?

HMMM? And the night you come home at 2:30 am early from work and she hears you sneaking down the hall so you dont wake up the kids........and plugs you nine times in the dark? You'll beproud of her for defending herself. Get a big dog and love it to death it will naturally protect your family, in the dark at night, wont bite you when your sneaking in at 2:30. 7 yrs ago I had a guy in my kitchen at 1:00am, 2 babies and a wife sleeping. I knuckle sandwiched the fu@$%cker!! Turned out to be my brothers friend. Lesson here? What if I shot him? It was hard for me to apologize but I did. He lived, you cant apologize for killing some one in the wrong place at the wrong time innocently. All he was doing was staying over night after my bro invited him so he didnt have to drive home 2hrs after working all day and half the nite. Would have been just another gun statistic. Theres several threads on here about gun registration, confiscation and legislation. All political BS its all boiled down from the many unnecessary statistics that the A-holes in shirts and ties (who have never touched a gun) have collaberated together. Sometimes a gun is needed but it is not very often. Not Saying your choice was wrong NATE but sounds like some of these guys have the wrong idea about guns/weapons and self defense. I prefer to acknowledge guns as firearms not weapons. The moment we decide it is a weapon we've sealed the fate of our right to guns. Just my .02

 

[Disco Dan Richter]

Slediot, if you havce such a hard time telling between a criminal and a freind, then that is your problem to deal with. If you let your bro let his freind stay at your house with your family without your knowledge and your permission, then you have a bigger issue to deal with, its called trust. I dont allow these things in my home, as I am smarter than that. It is my home, if "I" do not invite you in, or my wife for that matter, I will confront you, if you do not give me reason for being there(none will suffice if I do not know you) I will ask you to leave, if you do not and instead choose to confront me and I feel my life or my family's life is in danger, I will shoot you.

That is the scenario. Not just bazing bullets, but you have an obligation to confront and choose. For god's sake, no body is going to pull a trigger for nothing. THink man, think.

Sorry, all guns were designed for killing, that makes them all weapons, it is the owner that decides what to use it for, not the manufacturer.

Gun laws always will protect criminals by allowing them to free reange feed on victims who cannot arm themselves. Criminals will get guns anywhere at any time. If we had "no guns" laws in place when the constitution was written, we would not have this problem today, but we do have it and taking guns away from citizens will only make them victims.

But as for the original post, if you choose to carry a gun with you in your pocket, you are setting yourself up for a situation you may not have the self control to get out of.
I do not carry a gun with me, only have several in the home and that is where they stay, I refuse to put my self in that situation....road rage, parking lot rage, bar fight etc...ya just never know what you or someone else may do. I also stoutly beleive, that if you want to carry a gun on your person, you need to have gone through anger managment, firearms safety, and critical situation managment.

 

[Tearupamountain]

Has anybody bothered to tell you guys that want the thread pulled that you don't have to read it. Your mouse will not magically scroll down through the thread unless you roll the wheel.

 

[spring snow hero]

I had the big dog, 2 of them. if you think tey are gonna save you you are nuts. all they do is warn you and offer a distraction. how long des it take for someone to go from your door to your kids room or your room.....prolly just a second or two. I would not change anything I did, but she will. I did not sleep well because I almost lost a friend, but I would feel much worse if I just laid in bed and sat there while we lost a child or a wife.

since then I have added a surefire light to my defense rig. it is hell on a night attack. and gives me a split second to make my decision.

I am in disco's camp, if you are in my house uninvited, you are prolly not there to do me a favor. if my house is on fire I am sure someone will be screaming that. defense of my life and property is MY job.

 

[SLEDIOT]

I understand where you guys are coming from, its just to bad that statistically there are more fu@$%ck ups with guns than there are self defense good endings. Look it up, way more accidental shootings than there are shot burglars. As for the permission thing in my house, my brother was 18 at the time and didnt understand wwhat we know when it comes to "my" home and family. He didnt have a wife or kids so it didnt cross his pubescent mind. It was a good lesson for him because he just about got his azz kicked for the situation also. I would hope that anyone who uses a gun in self defense has 100% understanding before using a firearm. Buy a home security system with the bells, whistles and flashing lights. Its alot easier to explain to brinks security that you tripped yer own alarm rather than explaining a mistake. My home is very secure with the firearms locked up till hunting season. Each to his own, just some helpful advice. It wasnt meant as an attack or trying to prove that anyone is insecure. It was a take it or leave it message.................

 

[CDA_RMK]

i dont have to tell you how i feel....pull the trigger and you will know

I was in school to be a cop and would love to be in army or some thing.but I have been in spots were I had
To make that call.had some one brake in my house.

 

[Weekday Warrior]

threads like this always reminds me of the father who shot his own son as he was coming home from a war in the middle of the night.


get a bright azz light on them home defence weapons and IDENTIFY your targets!