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[SXRguyinMA]

That is the exact reason I sleep with my .45 on my nightstand and every gun in my home is loaded. If someone is stupid enough to break in or just shoot up my house they better hope they either A. Kill me or B. are out of range by the time I can draw down on them.

I don't own a gun but I agree with them being loaded at all times (kids safety another issue, but I don't have any right now). It's no tlike you can tell the guy that just broke into your hosue and is threatening to kill you to hold on a minute while you get the keys to your gun cabinet, then the keys to the ammo safe, then load your gun lol

[x88x]

B. are out of range by the time I can draw down on them.

That's what the bigger guns are for.

[Xpirate]

I am going to get some kind of child proof lock because I have a 5 year old. I'm going to get a 9mm because the ammo is cheaper and it's probably easier for a beginner to learn with. I can always get a larger caliber if I enjoy going to the range to shoot the smaller pistol.

I did report the guy to the police. Unfortunately, they do not investigate it unless I get more calls from him within a certain time frame. I went to the station to report him and learned that they would rather just send an officer to your house.

At first, I wanted the guy to call back so we could discuss his problem like civilized men. But, he already proved that he probably isn't very civilized from the "I know where you live" threat. I just hope he is not the kind of crazy that makes lists of people he wants to mess with when he gets bored.

I was around 25 years old when I delivered pizza. I had customers do mean things to me like sic the dog on me, pay me with a big bag of change that was short, or spray me with a hose. I even got slapped in the face once. I gave some very serious thought to doing something to their house while they were asleep. But at the end of the work day, I would remind myself that I was an adult. I just went home and forgot about seeking revenge. Some people forget that they are adults.

[Snowman]

I am going to get some kind of child proof lock because I have a 5 year old.

Safer than a lock is teaching your five year old, my grandpa took me out back to shoot his 9 millimeter luger he brought home from the war, after I picked myself up off the ground I didn't touch a gun for 10 years. I very firmly believe in gun control, you never know what could happen if you don't grip firmly. My son knows everything I do about guns or atleast the parts he can understand, I could try to hand him my gun and he will ask me if it is ok first, and whether or not it is loaded. Some of you may be going but I grew up with a marine in what some would call the boondocks and I trust education a hell of a lot more than I do a gun lock. The knowledge and lesson will be there even if you forget the lock.

[x88x]

Safer than a lock is teaching your five year old

Agreed+1000. Everyone these days seems to think kids are idiots who can barely string together a full sentence....idk where that idea came from, but it's very much not true. Education is always better than locking something away, especially with kids, who will want to get around that lock just because it's there, keeping them from it. ..ok, a lot of adults are that way too.. Anyways, point being, teach them about guns, how to handle them, how to fire them, let them use them under controlled circumstances, and so on. Not only will you be the coolest dad in the world, but your guns and child(ren) will be much safer than if they were just locked away (the guns that is, not the kids ).

I very firmly believe in gun control, you never know what could happen if you don't grip firmly.

Definitely sigquoted.

[Airbozo]

...Some of you may be going but I grew up with a marine in what some would call the boondocks and I trust education a hell of a lot more than I do a gun lock. The knowledge and lesson will be there even if you forget the lock.

I completely understand. I grew up with relatives that hunted and by age 3 was exposed to all sorts of weapons. I had fired my first pellet gun by 5 and my first 22 rifle the following year. Guns were not a feared item in my mind whereas most of my friends were never taught about guns and they held a certain fascination of them. If they were around one it was like show and tell and everyone was fighting to touch it. The mysterious smoke cannon whoa! Those of us that had been around them all our lives thought it was no big deal _until_ those that were completely fascinated by them started acting like a bunch of cavemen. That was the cue to leave and notify the parents...

[diluzio91]

I had customers do mean things to me like sic the dog on me,

Trying to get donations for my eagle project i had a guy do that... The dog probably wont be coming after me again.... I wore my steel toes as part of my uniform that day...

edit: i love dogs... i just dont like large mean ones that want to bite me... and if i wasnt about to be attacked i would have never hurt the poor thing. Not the dogs fault. but the a**H*** owners