Keep a gun on you even when you are at the house? [Archive]

GLOCKENNBOOMER

03-12-2008, 06:52 PM

, but always answer the door with a pistol held out of view behind me.

cw
Me too, If I don't know who you are and you are at my front door you can be sure I got my hand on a pistol just out of your sight.

Jammer Six

03-12-2008, 07:13 PM

You guys need better homes, or you need to stop eating Wheaties.

MakeMineaP99

03-12-2008, 11:40 PM

You guys need better homes, or you need to stop eating Wheaties.

After being the victim of two violent felonies in less than 10 months, I'll keep a gun on me in the house.

Mogollon

03-13-2008, 01:00 PM

Always,always,always!
My folks live in a small development in a rural area in eastern AZ, and a vagrant living in the woods asked an elderly neighbor to use their phone. He went to bring the phone to him, the vagrant kicked the door down, kicked him down, tied him to a chair, then raped and stabbed his 78 year old wife to death. He finally freed himself and shot the SOB three times in the chest with a j-frame S&W. Since then my folks both have their CCWs, and constantly have an Alloy 5-shot Taurus either in a pcoket or within immediate reach.
The lesson was not wasted on me, as I live near a freeway, and periodically have strangers ask to use a phone, or for water for a radiator, etc. i don't think it matters where you live anymore.

Anvil

03-13-2008, 01:18 PM

Yesterday someone rings my doorbell. I go to the door and there's a 20 year old male black. He says, "Good afternoon sir, would you consider adopting me? Adding some color to your family? (with a grin)".

I'm dumbfounded.

me "huh?"

him "Good afternoon sir, would you consider adopting me? Adding some color to your family? (with a grin)"

me "no"

him "....sales pitch for chemical cleaners...."

I'm sure he just got tired of giving his sales pitch over and over and over again door to door and just wanted to change things up to make his work more amusing to him but it was a bit strange if not a little creepy for me.

Point is, Anytime someone is at my door I'm armed, there's always a gun within reach of the parts of the house I stay in.

freakshow10mm

03-13-2008, 01:23 PM

I do, same rules as P99.

Exception is today. I'm sick with a sore throat, son has infections in both ears. Just moping around all day, not a care in the world.

Not the attitude to have, but doors are locked (need to break down two of them to get in the house from either side) and there is a GP100 with 180gr XTPs and 7gr Longshot 6 feet away in the closet. Upstairs next to my bed is a G30 with 200gr XTPs and 9.5gr HS6 with a 10mm 1911 stoked with 135gr Noslers and 17.5gr #9.

freakshow10mm

03-13-2008, 01:25 PM

thorn

03-13-2008, 01:38 PM

I live downtown, not in the suburbs... crime isn't "could it happen in my neighborhood". It's "crime can and does, maybe tonite and maybe not". I rarely have one on my waist in the house, but i almost always have one nearby.

thorn

layusn1

03-13-2008, 01:55 PM

I have one on each side of the bed and one in the coffee table drawer right in front of me. I don't go walking around the house with one. I think that might be a little paranoid but that could just be because I don't have any personal experience like Mogollon. I think I am ok having one within reach.

Leftglock

03-13-2008, 02:38 PM

Didnt think there were any lowlifes in the UP freak.Espessially the Kewanee. Whered they come from,Cheeseland or the lower?LOL

freakshow10mm

03-13-2008, 02:54 PM

If there was nothing to fear, we wouldn't have LE up here.

Off the top of my head:

Guy in Hougton got stabbed in Walmart parking lot two years ago.

Little Caesar's in Houghton got robbed at gunpoint last year.

Guy in Iron River (or Iron Mountain) got tortured and then killed.

Several breakins the last 6 months or so in Calumet/Laurium.

Few guys got shot at while picking berries on land they had permission to pick berryies.

Handfull of rapes.

Two home invasions of elderly folk.

Murder/suicide in Bessemer a few months ago.

We have low crime, but we are not immune to it. Small town complacency has gotten more than a few people killed. I'm literally the next block down from the police station, but they don't always have an officer on duty. Call 911, you might see one show up within a half hour.

Jammer Six

03-13-2008, 03:01 PM

*CLICK* (safety off)
Well, maybe I won't buy from you, then.

Freak, that's wrong-- you had no cause to point a weapon at him, and you don't take the safety off until the sights are on the target.

There was no target there.

layusn1

03-13-2008, 03:05 PM

Just have a life size stand up of my Avatar...that will distract any criminal long enough for you to club them to death... :rofl:

MakeMineaP99

03-13-2008, 03:09 PM

I think you're miss rereading freak's post, I detect sarcasm.

MakeMineaP99

03-13-2008, 03:09 PM

Just have a life size stand up of my Avatar...that will distract any criminal long enough for you to club them to death... :rofl:

Just having a life size stand up of the "upper" part of your avatar will distract them.

freakshow10mm

03-13-2008, 03:13 PM

Where did I mention anything about pointing a gun at someone? NEVER.

ept000

03-13-2008, 04:03 PM

I carry at home only about half of the time, but always in reach. We have a neighbor who is a total mess. Into meth, broke the window out of my wifes car, ripped some of our live chickens apart, need I say more. Worse is a guy that used to be a friend of mine knew about the problems I was having and he and one of his friends thought it would be funny to sneak through my front planter box and try to jump out and scare me. well my dogs heard them way before I did, but it was dark and at the time I had no idea who they were. I opened the front door to see what was going on and the FORMER friend jumps up and yells. He was VERY close to being the first guy I put two rounds into. Possibly the dumbest thing I have seen another person do.

layusn1

03-13-2008, 04:37 PM

Just having a life size stand up of the "upper" part of your avatar will distract them.

That is a match upper...they both match :rofl:

BIGGUNGOBOOM

03-13-2008, 05:07 PM

I used to have two guns at the ready, until untill ten days ago, when little man was born. Now i have three, i dont trust anyone "montegod will vouch for that" but that dosent mean that i have them on my side at all times. but their always close to where i am. plus the ol dog barks at anyting that moves so i have a little bit of a warning and deturent system. we dont live in a bad neighbor hood, but since all of these people have been loosing their house's "do to bad home loans and crappy intrest rates" there have been several break ins at homes that are vacant, i guess there looking to see if anyoe had left anything good.

oh yea and i have one placed out in the reloading room.:thumbsup:

coltc

03-13-2008, 06:57 PM

This is why I keep my gun on me most of the time, and if not on me, it's close by. This is where I live. The newer shirts have more dates on them.
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee87/wydrjc/Youngstown.jpg

Trooperdan

03-18-2008, 06:41 PM

Just have a life size stand up of my Avatar...that will distract any criminal long enough for you to club them to death... :rofl:

I have to agree with that! Hope I'm not out of line, being the FNG and all, but WHO DA HECK IS THAT? If she is a relative or your SO, more power to you.. and I'm envious!

DCGoth

03-28-2008, 06:05 AM

Having grown up in and around Washington, DC, (talk about murder capital of the world), I always keep at least three within reach while at home, take the G33 with me to the bathroom, as the .357 Sig round is the best one to penetrate a door and I always have two on me when in public, one on my belt and one elsewhere, depending on how I am dressed.

I also keep an additional one next to my car seat when driving.

mitchshrader

04-07-2008, 11:36 AM

i dunno if there's a combination category for 'most guns and knives combined' .. but if there is, i'm in. ;)

motorsporting

04-07-2008, 12:02 PM

You guys need better homes, or you need to stop eating Wheaties.

Hey Jammer, I think it can happen anytime, anywhere - no matter where you live. I used to live, since you're a Seattleite, in a nice suburban neighborhood on the "Eastside", and there were two home invasions within 5 miles of my house. It's not that I carry 24/7, but I don't feel that any neighborhood is immune to violence/criminals any more. Sure, it may happen less frequently than "bad" neighborhoods, but it only has to happen once.

chewy

06-24-2008, 01:11 PM

I do from time to time, although a hand gun is always close by it ain't alwasy handy. I hate when I find myself answering the door at night or whenever and don't have my G-23 on me. In the 9 years bein' a sunstance abuse counselor I've had 2 verbalized death threats due to someone being a little too hot in the head, but you never know with this population. Right now, only a couple of clients know where I live, but paranoid or not, I hate wheh my intuition is right, in other matters, and I have rationalized myself from that intuition.

Jayhawker

06-24-2008, 02:43 PM

I have at least one if not two loaded within relatively easy access to my wife and I at all times in the house. Kind of like Chewy, I get the occasional threat due to my job. In a small town, if they do not know where you live, it is not too darn hard to find out.

ISUSteve

06-24-2008, 03:51 PM

I live in studio apartment. Not enough time to get a gun. I just want to headbutt someone. I have the thickest skull of anyone here. To prove it, I'm willing to have an autopsy done.

jtrade

06-24-2008, 04:33 PM

I always have an AK or pistol within reach.

J

AlPackin

06-24-2008, 04:51 PM

I'm willing to have an autopsy done.

Steve I think you're freakin nutz ... I mean that in a good way :)

jawjaboy

06-24-2008, 05:07 PM

Keep a gun on you even when you are at the house?

Why do ya wanna know? :confused:

:sifone:

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Sky Pilot

06-26-2008, 10:41 AM

I was taught a rote, standard response to such questions:
"I can neither confirm nor deny the presence or absence of any nuclear device on or about any ship, aircraft, station or port of the US Navy, sir or ma'am."
To this I would add, specific to your question:
I married a youngest.
No matter how old a youngest daughter gets, she is always going to be Daddy's Little Girl.
When I married that fine woman I as much as looked her long tall Pa in the eye and said one man to another that I would provide for and would protect YOUR LITTLE GIRL.
I take that seriously.
I therefore can neither confirm nor deny the presence or absence ... well, you get the idea!

BigSlick

07-03-2008, 10:13 PM

Hafta be safe even at home nowdays

mbradst

07-06-2008, 08:15 AM

I live in a nice suburban area right outside a ****ty city. There have been an increasing incidence of home invasions over the last two years. Two of them within a few blocks in the last few months. Scary stuff.

Jammer Six

07-06-2008, 03:57 PM

When I married that fine woman I as much as looked her long tall Pa in the eye and said one man to another that I would provide for and would protect YOUR LITTLE GIRL
My youngest is a woman.

She is by no stretch of the imagination a little girl.

If you had said that to me, I would have thought to myself "Great. She picked a guy who thinks of her as a little girl."