Signed: Big Bad Mother Superior
Posted on 11/17/2011 12:34:11 AM PST by neverdem
I have never owned a gun. Matter of fact, I have fired a gun a grand total of one time in my life. I shouldered a shotgun out in the north Georgia woods when I was nineteen years old and fired at a milk bottle filled with water as a target. The kick from the gun nearly tore my shoulder off, since I obviously had no clue what I was doing. I have no idea if I came close to hitting that jug.
I have never wanted to own a gun. I fish. No need to shoot fish, though I am sure that takes place. I have never been hunting. I am not opposed to it in any way; it just works out that I have never been asked to join a hunting party by my father or brother-in-law -- and considering my lifetime gun résumé to this point, that is, for their sake, likely a very good thing.
What I have done is held a pistol in self-defense. Robbed at gunpoint when I was working at a gas station off Interstate 20 east of Atlanta in 1978, I grabbed the pistol the owner kept under the counter and (for some silly eighteen-year-old-full-of-vinegar-manhood-thingy) chased the dirtbag out the door. Of course, I had already hit the silent alarm, and the next person yelling at me to drop the gun was the second person who had pointed a gun at me in the span of six minutes -- only he was wearing a cool blue uniform and waving a standard-issue .357 magnum of the DeKalb County Police Department.
So my personal, limited experience with guns is not good. Actually it's just this side of tragic. But I have considered, and now again...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Judge is a joke. If you want something that shoots .45 LC, get a real .45 LC revolver.
The point isn’t to “scare” them, the point is to STOP them. If you just scare them off, you’ve just created problems for someone else...
Perhaps the biggest issue regarding firearms ownership for self-defense is most certainly NOT hardware selection, but MINDSET!
The best book I know that discusses this issue in a clarifying way is Masaad Ayoob's In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection
While the book is getting a little dated on things like the aforementioned hardware selection (revolvers were still really big, pistols not so much), the sections on mindset and legal consequences are still very much worth the price of admission. I would say this writer should buy a copy of this book now.
That event is more common than the common cold.
It has happened on multiple times to me and my friends and always in very deep water at night and no one ever remembers which lake, let alone the location on lake whatyoumacallit.
This guy says what I’ve been thinking.
If you had told me 20 years ago that I would own a gun, I would have laughed you out of the room. Clinton turned me into a conservative; Obama turned me into a gun owner.
Bought my first gun this year. Will be getting my concealed carry permit before the New Year. And will be buying at least one more gun before the end of the year.
Unease/unrest doesn’t even begin to cover it.
“Of course, “Occupy” owns any violence connected to it in any fashion, even if (and that’s a strong “if”) it did not commit that violence directly.”
Not sure I agree with that. It means the same allegation could be made against the Tea Party or conservatives or anyone else.
“Can I kill another human being?
If your answer is “no”, you should not posess a firearm.”
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“Do not buy a gun for protection unless you are prepared to make the instantaneous moral decision that a human being threatening your life with a weapon has now lost his right to life.”
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Corollary: A woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow superior to a woman explaining how she scared off her attacker with a gun she wasn’t willing to use to shoot him.
Signed: Big Bad Mother Superior
However, I will only say that my wife...who two years ago was uncomfortable even discussing firearms and was adamant about having no firearms in our home (at least the ones she knew about) just got her License to Carry and spent Tuesday night at the range trying out a number of pistols and revolvers. A "fitting" if you will. She very much likes the Walther P22 but will opt for something with more punch...perhaps a PPK or a Ruger LTC9 like mine.
“Remington 870.” Good choice in .20 gauge for home defense.
Ping
“The Judge is a joke”
Yes the experts give it a thumbs down. I want to shoot .410s with nonlethal charge. Also, I want a huge, scary flash and bang.
I don’t want to kill anyone, not because of moral qualms (I’d do it only if I thought he was going to kill me) but because of the legal problems that would result. Also I think most bad guys that are peppered but not seriously injured will be (a) thankful to the shooter that they spared his life, and (b) less likely to break into people’s homes again.
The “Experts” huh? Also I think most bad guys that are peppered but not seriously injured will be (a) thankful to the shooter that they spared his life, and (b) less likely to break into people’s homes again.
If you their eye out you will be sue you for sure. If you ruin their ability to make welfare babies, you will sued again.
The rest of your post is simply naive and clearly shows that you don’t live in the real world.
You need to post your address online so the criminals will know a “safe” house to rob or person to maim without worry of being harmed.
Granted.
I think even people who might hesitate to take a human life in defense of their own would be more inclined to do so in defense of someone else; especially the life of their spouse or child. The point being that the responsibilities of owning a weapon and the decision about using it in a life threatening situation need to be thought through well BEFORE such an event occurs.
Agree fully w/your comments regarding mindset/situational awareness.
Agreed.
I have my Browning A5 for home defense, my EAA in 10mm for carry, and a variety of others for plinking, hunting, and OMGWTFBBQSHTF...
Thank-you for this info, I to am going to buy a gun for the first time.
Fired a gun once in my life on a date at the firing range. I am absolutely
lost as to what kind of gun to purchase, however have been looking
at a small pistol it does seem much less intimidating and feels easy
to handle. Don’t know though if this is strong enough to take someone
down.
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