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OrionTheWolf -> RE: Defended my home (12/9/2009 2:17:49 PM)
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Not getting much sleep lately, but will try to articulate some thoughts:
1) Spinner and a couple of others have it right. There should be required safety and knowledge courses that are required for the ownership of pistols. Not sure I support it as much for shotguns and rifles, because most of those are covered under hunting safety courses.
2) I live in the more rural section of my county, and the county is pretty rural to begin with. We do not even have to get emissions here, while a few counties close to Atlanta does. So a 7 and a half min response time is pretty good.
3) I was not positive what the sound was, until I stepped into the storage room. Up until then I was thinking my oldest son or an animal, especially when I went to look in the storage room where we keep some of our tools. I could have stepped out and taken a position beside the stairs, which would have covered entry to the hall and stairs, where there was family, but then my back would have been to my son's and my room. Where I took my stand there was a concrete exterior wall behind the raccoon, and behind me.
4) There are several different ways it could have been handled, and I have thought of them all, at least once, and some maybe a hundred.
5) The raccoon did live.
As an aside, two years ago there was a high speed chase a couple of counties closer to Atlanta, and it ended with them forcing the driver into a crash that resulted in the driver being paralyzed. There are no news stories on it, that I ever found, but there is a civil judgment that can be found online at findlaw. If anyone reviews any of my previous posts on gun ownership, you will notice just a couple of posts stating what I said in point 1. I really don't care much about changing anyone's position on gun ownership, it has never been that big of a concern to me. It really doesn't matter much to me whether people liked the raccoon or not.
This topic has gotten pretty ridiculous, which I thought it would, and why I posted it here. A couple are correct, and I said they were before, I should never have started the topic about the raccoon, I was pretty stupid for doing such without thinking it through. PETA has already been in touch, and charges are pending.
If there is one single thing that everyone could do, that I am asking, is please stop the insults. No need for it really, other than I do agree with being stupid and do not consider that an insult, but not for the initial reactions.
Would anyone like to be involved in a discussion about how someone feels after shooting a raccoon? Maybe how the people in the house feel afterwards? The anxiety that plagues everyone in that house that is old enough to understand what happened? Maybe how you seem to hear even more sounds afterwards? Maybe we could discuss how something like this makes you think about raccoons even more, and that it is an internal struggle to not see raccoons everywhere you look?
I don't think I would have done much different except for 1) Need to buy a shotgun so I do not have to worry about interior wall penetration, 2) Need to get a Rottie and have it trained. I have a friend that is looking into a genetically sound pup for me now 3) Will think, think and then think again before posting anything even close to this. Don't need PETA coming down on me after all, and unless you have ever had PETA to deal with, you really wouldn't understand.
I wouldn't recommend most people to handle it like I did, unless maybe they had the training and experience to do so.
Since I am not monitoring this topic that much anymore, if someone does post a link about the raccoon, can someone please report it as a violation of TOS or something.
Thanks!
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