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ResidentSadist -> RE: -=How Many Guns Do You Have?=- (3/22/2016 4:26:15 AM)
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ORIGINAL: smc5188
Not enough is always a good answer. I have a large number based upon the polling data and peoples responses. Some are strictly for there collectable value, others for future hunting trips, and the rest spread between target shooting and home defense. I have seen to many civil disturbances in So Calif. To blindly think such events will not happen again.
I was 12 years old when the Detroit riots (12th Street riot) broke in 1967. My Grandma lived between 12th street & 14th street. She was 67 years old. She had escaped Russia, smuggled through the mountains into Armenia by gypsies. She married an Armenian at 15, came to the US and had 7 kids. She survive the depression but her husband didn't. Had to raise the kids on her own. That was the family house and she had lived in that old house with the river stone porch and pillars for a very, very long time. She wasn't about to leave her home for anyone, even if she was the only white person for miles and in the middle, at the heart of the deadliest and most destructive race riot in the history of the United States.
So the whole family came down to her house to protect her... 7 of her children, their spouses etc. It looked like a mafia convention. My uncles were huge 6 foot plus Russian/Armenians, a pro boxer, an air force pilot, a collector for a bookie, an ex construction worker turned contractor... big beefy guys all wearing suits, sunglasses and packing heat. There were black Cadillac's parked up and down both sides of the street with family pulling guns out of trunks and going up to the house.
My job was to sit by the living room window with a 12 gauge and shoot through the door at anyone that came on the porch. The cops told us to drag the body inside real quick and say it was self defense. They would back that story if anything happened. From my post at the window overlooking the porch I could see the houses and shops burning on 12th & 14th street. This went on for almost a week and I'll never forget the sight of the fires glowing at night and the sound of all the gun shots.
Well, not only was my grandma's house left unmolested. The rioters didn't mess with any of the houses on her street, but the city around us burned. We were fortunate that our show of force during that civil disturbance was all that was needed and no ammo was spent.
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