GMA Home Protection Tips: Chimes, Mini-Cactus, But No Guns

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[GoldCountryRedneck]

FYI, in the state of CA it's agin' the law to own cactii that big...

[Sybeck1]

Lay a bed of nails in front of your windows, like Bronson did in one of the Death Wish movies.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I’m not surprised. What ain’t agin’ the law in CA?

[Savage Beast]

One of the scariest things about these people is that they are determined to apply their home protection techniques to our national security.

[dashing doofus]

Does Kah-lee-foryna have a 10 cactus per household limit?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Do they keep the cacti locked up to ensure children don’t accidentally get pricked?

Is there a seven-day wait to purchase a cactus for home defense?

[dashing doofus]

Hmmmm, maybe all the illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico are actually fleeing dangerous cacti — there are alot of them in the Mexican desert.

[elpadre]

I lived in a high crime area for a short time up North, and one of few who never had a problem. because....

I was known as a former law enforcement officer surely to have a gun and trained in it’s use

and secondly had a cute cocker spaniel (scary huh!)

thirdly - my wife daily worked out at the gym and was learning kick boxing (and that scares me!)

but no cactus or chimes

[jrp]

In a sane world, the media would be running stories about the millions of crimes thwarthed annually by citizens with firearms. Instead we get nonsense about cati and windchimes. And a too large percentage of the population laps it up.

[Gorzaloon]

FYI, in the state of CA it's agin' the law to own cactii that big...

Well SURE! Anyone can see that's an ASSAULT CACTUS.

[dashing doofus]

but no cactus or chimes

Its a miracle you survived. Until this GMA report came out, I was convinced door and window locks, motion detectors, and a few .40 caliber pistols were pretty effective deterrents, especially combined with the occassional sounds of gunfire in the woods behind my home when I am plinking. Now I see how naive I have been. I'm headed to the local greenhouse. Now I realize that the plants around the home

[mkjessup]

What a bunch o’ damn idiots.

With advice like this, GMA stands for ‘Go Murder Americans’.

[gridlock]

Windchimes are to annoy your neighbors.

I remember reading a Dear Abby years back by a woman who claimed that all over her neighbors must love her windchimes, because they all keep stealing them at night...

Abby broke it to her as gently as she could...

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Does Kah-lee-foryna have a 10 cactus per household limit?

Yeah. They really stick it to us...

[SteelCurtain_SSN720]

Remember that California is full of liberals, they don’t care when children get “pricked”.

[expatpat]

No problem with that.....

[roses of sharon]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1871256/posts?q=1&;page=1

GMA is a menace, giving this dangerous advice. I’m giving them a call today and telling them so!

[Graybeard58]

My son who is a LEO has a rather large dog that lives in his house. When anyone fakes an attack on my son, the dog attacks my son. However, the dog is very protective of my D-I-L.

If a bad guy broke in his house, the dog would abet him. Fortunately my son has a gun in every room of the house but is hoping that his dog doesn't learn how to use them.

[expatpat]

They are not being stupid. They know that people who hear about the home invasion are going to think about steps to protect themselves, and this $h*t is to lead them away from thought of guns.

[XenaLee]

Hehehehe.....damn good idea ya got there!