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ORIGINAL: SaintIntensity

sometimes I wonder if some people sit awake at night, nursing their weapons (and semis!) just HOPING someone treads on their lawn or gives them another excuse to open fire!
As someone who held a firearms dealer license, I am used to handling guns - but the attitudes of many who possess them still concerns me at times.

"A well-armed society is a polite society" goes the adage - strangely, America isn't THAT polite...

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ORIGINAL: Owner59


But the deterrent affect is still there.

Bad guys don`t know that our pups are such sweethearts.

They see an unpredictable animal with a toothy end and they choose to move on.J

ust a dog barking sends fright/flight messages down the spine,for those up to no good.

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze
Pretty much that, burglars want to go for an easy job, barking will tell them it's not going to be an easy job.

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ORIGINAL: lovmuffin

  I don't feel threatened or nervous about anything in my neighborhood but you never know when some gun wielding maniac might come around shooting the place up.  I'm proficient with a variety of firearms so it would be illogical not to keep a handgun within reach or in my vehicle. In Florida you can have a loaded handgun in your vehicle if it's holstered or in a case or glove box or console, resident or nonresident, no carry permit required. A handgun should be standard equipment like a jack, road flares or a spare tire.

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze
Pretty much that, burglars want to go for an easy job, barking will tell them it's not going to be an easy job.

I would think a recording of angry doggie barking/growling tripped by motion sensors outside would work pretty good too.. without being eaten out of house and home and the daily pooper scouping... lol

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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet

I have been carrying concealed for a couple of years, plus I always sleep with a gun on the nightstand, or under the pillow. I do it because I get threatened once in a while be ause of my job and because I live in a rural area with not much in the way of police protection, and lots of wild animals.

Anyway, the man i have been seeing found a gun under my pillow and expressed his concern about my paranoia. My feeling is, just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

I recognize this is a hot button issue with a lot of people, and I am hoping this thread doesn't take a nasty turn. In any case, who else carries and why?

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

I rarely carry, and when I do I am looking to make trouble. You got a problem with that just stay the fuck away from me. I don't shoot people for fucking my sinister or scratching my car, or taking my parking spot or even cranking up my stereo and blowing a tweeter. No stupid shit like that. The power of life nd death means more than these fucking toys.

In the last five years I have worn my sidearm about three times. I am EXTREMELY aware of it and make sure not to drink much or anything, I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS. You dan't take shit like this lightly. But I WILL kill if pressed. If I have to. With reason.


T^T

I'd stay west of 117th if I were you

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife


 When seconds count, the police are minutes away ;-)




If I hear that phrase one more time on these gun threads I'm going to have to get a gun and shoot myself.

Let's just parrot what the NRA says.

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze
LOL, a friend who owns a pub recorded our dogs and did exactly that, instead of an alarm you hear dogs barking and growling, we just let them play tug of war with each other and a piece of rope, then played ball with them and made sure they were running over our wooden floor, so you hear the click click of the big claws on the floor, put it on the computer, looped it a bit, doesn't sound like 2 big dogs, sounds like a pack going mental and meaning business.

It's quite funny, when they opened the pub, they went for it because it's a lovely old building but the previous landlord had not so great clientel, politely telling the old customers to find another place didn't always work, sometimes there was a bit of friction and my Dobie girl sided up with the landlord (man who gives her the drip tray - must be friend), there was a bit of pushing and shoving, girl just barked, the guys just left. Ever since she even got a huge doggie bed there in front of one of the open fire places, since she has a brother that's even bigger than her the "undesirables" made no attempt to try and reclaim the pub - and we're not there all that often, maybe once or twice a week.

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ORIGINAL: lovmuffin

I don't feel threatened or nervous about anything in my neighborhood but you never know when some gun wielding maniac might come around shooting the place up.  I'm proficient with a variety of firearms so it would be illogical not to keep a handgun within reach or in my vehicle. In Florida you can have a loaded handgun in your vehicle if it's holstered or in a case or glove box or console, resident or nonresident, no carry permit required. A handgun should be standard equipment like a jack, road flares or a spare tire.

So.....uh.....how often has this happened to to you?

How often have you had a gun wielding maniac shoot up your place?

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Here in St Louis we had a 34 year old police officer wake up to two burglars ransacking his home. He pulled his trusty pistol and at a range of 8 feet fired 6 rounds….he missed with all six…I wonder where those 6 rounds went? Just lucky they did not kill another family member.

He was trained in the use of his weapon and still missed at point blank…what chance will you have?

I just don’t understand the love affair with useless handguns for home defense… I’ve a 12 gauge out of the reach of children with a gun lock and a box of birdshot…but I’ll guarantee you I would not miss at 8 feet.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife


 When seconds count, the police are minutes away ;-)




If I hear that phrase one more time on these gun threads I'm going to have to get a gun and shoot myself.

Let's just parrot what the NRA says.

  When seconds count, the police are minutes away

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Here in St Louis we had a 34 year old police officer wake up to two burglars ransacking his home. He pulled his trusty pistol and at a range of 8 feet fired 6 rounds….he missed with all six…I wonder where those 6 rounds went? Just lucky they did not kill another family member.

He was trained in the use of his weapon and still missed at point blank…what chance will you have?

I just don’t understand the love affair with useless handguns for home defense… I’ve a 12 gauge out of the reach of children with a gun lock and a box of birdshot…but I’ll guarantee you I would not miss at 8 feet.

Butch