Why do I support the right for a person to have a gun you ask?

[T Park]

I will always support the right to have guns for protection, and I have little sympathy for people who are too stupid to keep their guns out of the reach of their children.

That said, I don't think I'll ever own a firearm... I've thought about situations where I might use one, and I don't think I'm prepared for the consequences. For example, if I shot a burglar, I would live in almost constant fear of retaliation. Not just the night of the break-in, but all subsequent nights.

I would prefer to have a stunner/tazer of some kind, especially for my wife. A gun just wouldn't make me feel any safer.

Fantastic post as usual Spurm.


My exact feelings.

[Useruser666]

Uh that zombie thing is disturbing,

[SpursWoman]

I have little sympathy for people who are too stupid to keep their guns out of the reach of their children.

Spoken like someone who never has had to smack the hands of little people that won't stay out of their .

Although, I've been pretty successful keeping them out of the locked box.

[SpursWoman]

So you sure about no handguns in the house?

[Jekka]

Spoken like someone who never has had to smack the hands of little people that won't stay out of their .

Although, I've been pretty successful keeping them out of the locked box.

Hmmmmm.... someone has a goody chest.

[Useruser666]

Hmmmmm.... someone has a goody chest.

Oh, you meant that in a non-anatomical way!

[ZStomp]

Tonight, while Jessica and I were watching a movie, we heard a noise outside of her window and in the bushes. She thought it was a cat, but I thought it was somebody who had stumbled into the bushes. I looked out the window to see a hispanic man standing around.

A few minutes later we hear a few more crashes in the hallway adjecent to her apartment.

Thinking it was one of Jekka's neighbors, we paid it no mind and simply went back to watching the movie.

Fast forward 30 minutes later, and we see a spotlight on the window for a minute. We wonder what it is and then I hear a helicopter circling. I call SAPD to find out that there has been a break in on a third floor apartment. The third floor apartment right above Jessica.

What we heard was the a potted plant falling from the balcony above while they were climbing up to the apartment. The man I saw was a lookout for the break in. And the crashes in the hallway we heard were them running after they got a VCR and a DVD player.

I gave the description (a lot of good it will do, it narrows it down to a few hundred thousand men in SA) to the police, and spoke to the guy who lived in the apartment. Nice guy, I'd spoken to him a few times before.

But the thing is now, Jess lives on the first floor. What the is to stop the same ers from trying something here?

I have two guns at my place. Ready and loaded.

[ZStomp]

Manny, go talk to the police and let them give you their opinion on whether it is safer to have a loaded gun in your house.

Leave it to the people who know the real facts, ok?

At least do that for me.

Manny doesn't need to talk to police. He's a smart guy and can come up with an answer all by himself.

[bigzak25]

Woman beats off burglar with gnome


LONDON, England (AP) -- A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him, police said Friday.

Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England.

"I grabbed the first thing that came to hand -- one of my garden gnomes -- and hurled it at him, and hit him," she recalled.

"He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."

A neighbor alerted police who arrived shortly afterward and arrested the intruder.

He added: "Our usual advice would be not to get involved, but to contact the police straight away," said a spokesman for the Devon and Cornwall Police.

"We do appreciate that in the heat of the moment people react to that situation, and if it results in a happy outcome that's great."
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screw the gun man, get one of these....

[SpursWoman]

[Useruser666]

I expected a different story with the le, "Woman beats off burglar with gnome."