Who are you to tell ANYONE what they need and don't need? Your opinion, I get it. So here's mine.
You say a double barrell will take care of me, and my family, at home? Against what? A single person with a knife? If I'm lucky, two guys with a knife? At least where I live, home invasions occur quite often and normally with more than one intruder each with a gun with a capacity larger than 1. If there's only two guys, each with a 6 shot revolver (rare in today's society) there's 12 possible shots coming at me and my family, and you want me to have 2?
Hunters with no scopes... So, you are against improving shot accuracy, increasing the suffering of the animal? That's a nice thought.
And you don't think anyone except police should have a gun outside their house? Really? Police response to a call outside the home is easily double that of a domestic call. Know why? How accurate are most folks under pressure with telling the dispatcher exactly where they are at any given time? It's laughable. And that's IF you have the opportunity to call. Next time you are out driving with your wife or kids, or girlfriend, whatever, at a random place that you are familiar with along the way ask them. " If you had to call the police right now, where would you tell them we are?" See how fast the response is, and truly listen from a dispatchers standpoint to see how helpful it is. Don't forget. The second question the dispatcher will ask you after they say "911, what is your emergency?" is "What town are you in?". And on most phones, once you are on a call, you can't look at your phone and google maps to see where you are. Hopefully, you have a good navigation system. Still, most folks don't.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...***-shootings/
I won't let ANYONE tell me that I don't have the right to protect myself or my family outside my home. Whether we are traveling by car, in our boat, at a restaraunt, the bowling ally, movie theater, even kids sports function, I carry. I carry EVERYWHERE. I even carried when I coached kids soccer. NO ONE knew. Ever. Not my wife, the other parents, friends, and certainly not the kids, not even my own. That's the point of conceiled carry. It was there for protection and protection only. If it's not needed, no one well ever know. No conversation about it, no show and tell. And that's' the beauty of the concept.
I think EVERY legal and sane person should carry EVERYWHERE. Even if you carry where you aren't supposed to, if done the way it's intended, no one will ever know. Carrying where you aren't supposed to might help ya make better decisions to keep you out of trouble and being found out about. But it's there if you need it.
If EVERYONE assumes that EVERYONE else is carrying, I think we'd be a much more polite society. I bet the shootings in the "Gun-Free" zones would stop completely.
Criminals, as history shows, more times than not tend to be cowards. They strike when and where they know, or think, they will face zero opposition. When faced with opposition, they run. Many mass murderers kill themselves rather that face opposition or come to grips with reality and pay for their mistakes.
Do I NEED a 30-40 round clip? Nope. But that's just me. However, a law Limiting a clip or magazine to 10 rounds would make my wife's personal 9mm illegal. I want you to personally deliver that message to her that you don't think she needs it, or that the law makes it illegal. Let me forewarn you though...
She carry's because her ex has verbally threatened her life as well as mine, too many times to count. Prior to the sheriffs deputies physically removing him from the house prior to their divorce, he had the muzzle of his .45 pressed against her head so hard it split it open...numerous times. He is not in jail. He is not restricted from purchasing another gun (his was confiscated by the Sheriff). He left the state to avoid being thrown in jail for child support and Protection Order Violations, and promptly purchased another .45, told the kids about it, and sent them pictures of he and his new wife (who is 2 years older than his oldest daughter) shooting it. And there's NOTHING anyone can do about it. It's actually illegal for us to keep our home address hidden from him, because of the kids. He's not restricted from seeing or contacting them. Judges are great, arent they? But we don't know where he is, ever. Numerous creditors and others, still call us looking for him.
You have your opinions. More than likely, like myself, yours were developed from years of life experiences. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I have mine. I'll live by mine. And I also will never support taking away anyone else's right to decide what is right for themselves, so long as they are legally, physically and mentally stable enough to do so.
Originally Posted by fordman1
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