A few years later shooting a full auto-Uzi.
Posted on 09/06/2005 5:57:55 PM PDT by Jack Wilson
Indeed, it is a scary sound and an affective tool to scare the bad guys away. IF, you are wide awake when the bad guys enter your home.
My wife has one job when something goes "bump" in the night...kill the lights.
I just don't see an "pat" answers to this. Eventually you've got to announce yourself somehow. If you rack the slide, they're probably either going to beat feet or shoot at the sound. If you don't know for sure how many there are or where they are, I don't see any downside to using the sound to flush them out, as long as you keep moving.
What, exactly is a "gun?" I have eighteen "guns" of all shapes and varieties; but I am confused. Could you help me catalog my "guns."
Good luck. Hope your phone is on speed dial and you got a great arm.
Better have a cell phone in case the guy takes out your phone first.
I think we are on the same page for home defense
FWIW Savage and a good caller are talking about this now.
Yeah except for the pistol grip!
The only difference between our families is our children were taught to shoot with handguns first; long guns second.
My bad there HTB :) I got that bassackwards..
Shot from a slug barrel? gives the swirly effect L0L
When the black and blue marks diminish, then you can have fun at trap, skeet, sporting clays, hunting...
Locking your doors is the very first step of securing your family. We practice zero-tolerance with leaving doors unlocked. There is no excuse for not having your keys. Period.
My preference is the handgun.
You apparently are comfortable with a Glock.
Lauren seemed to be comfortable with a SW 5906 or Berreta 92
Thanks for the input
Yes, you are right of course. I should have added that even though we don't need to, I lock up anyway...
Y'all have thought about it.
That is the first step to beating back the goblins!
By the way, I was suprised to see 250 evacuees across the street from work this AM
A handgun is a handgun . . . what is important is which one you are comfortable with.
My house has three levels. Family bedrooms are on two of them. I can't afford to sit in bed and dial 911 with daughters sleeping downstairs, if i sense a threat I have to investigate. However, 911 will be called by the wife and if there were no others in the house then the right course of action (if you are certain of an intrusion) is to sit tight, be armed and ready, and call the cops.
A few years later shooting a full auto-Uzi.
Don't trust the government that does not trust an armed society.
There is a reason why our founding fathers wrote the "Right to bear arms" into the Constitution.
Even if you look outside our boarders, it's always the same story. Disarm the people and you have them by the balls! It's the first thing the NAZI's did (Germany’s first gun laws were under Hitler), the first thing that the Serbs did as Yugoslavia was falling apart and later they started killing the Bosnians and others.
Crime and gun ownership correlations have been proven to be bogus relationships that in fact have backfired on many who tried to establish them. In many places where concealed carry became legal, crime dropped. Some of the cities with the highest murder rates (Washington, LA, New York….) also have some of the stiffest gun laws. This however, does not discourage the gun control fetishist. As gun laws got stiffer in Britain and Australia (I believe Australia as well), crime went up, not down. Yet they keep grinding the same old disproven dogma of guns equals’ crime.
The right to defend and protect yourself is as instinctual and basic as breathing itself. Those who think the Police is always there, that the government is your friend and can always be trusted, that people are all good natured and moral are naïve at best.
Yes, buy a gun and join the crowd of gun toting weirdo Americans. We’re such “Cowboys” and so redneck stupid to believe in this “Right to bear arms”, yet many foreigners just don’t seem to understand why we have lasted so long as a democracy. Do you think 6 million Jews would have gone to the ovens as easily had they been able to resist? In a society such as the US, a government has to “think” about what decisions it makes. Waco and Ruby Ridge were horrible events, but they also caused for a reevaluation of policy and how to go about dealing with people.
This sums it up best: Armed you’re a citizen, once disarmed you’re a subject.
Even in Iraq we allow the people to remain armed. Fact is, the ones with an AK at home are not the ones building IED’s or even shooting at us. Even there, the gun owner is no real threat. Even there the statement that the “bad guys” will get the weapons anyway is true. In fact, they will get a lot more than AKs.
Red6
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