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ZoeyMarie
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BFP 04/15/2011; M/C 04/21/2011
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Do you own a gun?
ZoeyMarie
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So, I pulled up to our house today and there was a car parked RIGHT IN FRONT of our house. We are not in a busy neighborhood. Very few people ever drive through here. They aren't parked near our neightbor's house. They are centered in front of our lot.
I walked through our house with a knife and when DH got home, he walked through with a shotgun.
We are thinking about getting a handgun after taking classes, but I'm nervous. What about you ladies?
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Re: Do you own a gun?
No, but I wouldn't mind if we did.
I mean, if someone breaks into your house and you don't have a gun, how will you shoot them?
yes. They are Dh's. They are locked in a cabinet in the closet.
I am not a big fan of guns, but I trust that DH has taken the necessiary precautions for them.
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The car is still sitting there. DH wants me to call it in if it's still here at noon tomorrow and he's at work. Is that a crazy idea?
DH just showed me how to use his tonight. For the time being, we're going to keep it under the bed since G isn't old enough to know any different, but a gun safe (and maybe a couple of handguns) are most likely in our future.
I did tell DH that if we're going to get a handgun, it has to be something that I can handle and that won't knock me on my butt.
Funny you should ask this because DH is at a shooting range as we speak trying out different handguns. He also has a shotgun, but is getting a handgun as well for protection. It's easier than loading a shotgun in the middle of the night...
I have to say that I'm not a fan of guns, but they are a good idea to have for protection if you take the necessary precautions to keep them out of the hands of children.
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See, this is where I get stuck -- mostly because I haven't done any research, yet. What precautions can you take that also allow you to quickly access said gun should you need to?
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I would totally call the car in. It's creepy that it's still there there..
I myself haven't done much research on it, but from what DH told me about the particular gun he's looking at has 3 different types of safeties on it, and all 3 have to be released in order for the gun to shoot. I guess it allows it to be loaded, but nothing in the chamber until you release all the safeties. It would also be hidden of course, although I'm not sure where yet.
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I'm creeped out, too. I kind of want to set up a camera to see what's up.
in response to the second post, if you own a gun, and someone is already possibly in your house and you're not, how does the gun help? chances are, they'd have it already.
i'm not anti-gun, but i don't think they've thwarted many criminals. i have this conversation with my heat packing friends at least once every couple of years. i did mention to dh that i'd like to learn to shoot, because i'd like to know what to do with a gun if i ever came into contact with one. i'd like to be able to tell if it's loaded... i'd like to know how to put the safety on... etc. but i definitely don't think they make your home safer.
No. And I don't want one in my house. My (ex)stepfather was a drunk and slept with one under his pillow. My husband wants one.... But they just make me uncomfortable.
It's been said that you are more likely to get shot with your own gun if there was an intruder then you actually shooting the intruder.... I just don't like those odds.
But I do sleep with a knife (6" flip knife) in my bedside table.
H bought me a 9 mm beretta hand gun. It is really small, light, and easy to shoot. However, I don't really like guns so I wouldn't know how to use it if I was in a predicament. Like I said earlier, H has many guns because he uses them for sport. Hunting and shooting is his passion. All of his guns except for one are placed in his gun safe and he has another pistol that he keeps hidden in our bedroom for protection.
I have never once worried about our kids being hurt by his firearms, because I know without a doubt that they will be taught to respect guns. We practice extremely strict gun safety in our home, and I know that H will want to teach our little boy his hobbies. I think that having weapons in our home allows us to teach him this respect, and if we didn't have them around we wouldn't have this opportunity.
I don't want this to sound snarky AT ALL, but I don't really understand your logic here. When I hear people talk about being shot by their own guns, I think that they would be wayyy more likely to be assulted by an intruder by some other sort of object turned weapon, like this knife you are talking about.
An intruder would not be able to access our guns in our safe, because he won't know the combination, and he would have to look really hard to find the one pistol I talked about earlier. However, he could waltz right in grab a knife out of my kitchen, he would automatically know that they are there.
Plus, I'm pretty sure an intruder already has a gun on them. If somebody is going to break into my home an attack me, I'm probably going to be screwed anyways. I'll take my chances with trying to shoot back. (this post is making me want to learn how to defend myself)
I just feel like having a gun makes me feel more safe. It's about having the ABILITY to defend yourself if you really need it.
Please go to to a shooting range and become proficient with a small handgun (perhaps something easy, like a .22 caliber revolver) and gun safety before you think about purchasing something. If you already have a shotgun, you have the best home defense gun around. It's big, effective, and hard to accidentally discharge.
As for how to secure the gun while allowing quick access, they make biometric safes, which work by putting your fingers on a pad, which opens the safe.
H has a Kimber. He got it when I was pregnant and took me to a shooting range, but I was nervous and didn't want to worry about any harm it could do to the baby, so I didn't shoot it then but he will teach me this year.
One night when H was on midnights, I thought I heard glass breaking and even though I don't know how to shoot it, it was nice to have walking around in the dark.
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I have heard that about getting hurt with your own gun, too. But, DH thinks it would be easier for me to handle a smaller gun than the shot gun. And, quite honestly, the shot gun has so many different buttons to remember, I'd probably forget how to use it.
I told DH in no uncertain terms that if we were going to look at guns, we were going to do it right -- classes together first, then conceal to carry as well because he wants to be able to take a small gun with when we go on walks. He's paranoid because we've had, like, 2 coyote sightings in our area.
We have 2 handguns and a shotgun. We keep our handguns in a gun safe under the bed that we unlock before we go to bed and then lock back up in the morning. I actually bought my 9mm Ruger for myself when I lived alone. I am ex-military so I am very familiar and comfortable with firearms. It is very important to know how to handle a firearm and to know if it is loaded, and if so, how to safely unload it.
My 8 year old step son knows we have guns in the house and has shot a .22 under strict guidance and supervision of H. He is learning gun safety and to respect guns.
I would never consider not being armed. If someone breaks into my home, I don't care what kind of weapon they have, I plan to shoot them before they even get close to me or my kids.
Oh, and our guns aren't for home safety..that's what our rottweiler is for
Just kidding..she's more of a baby than the human baby!
I too would have called by now.
Are there people sitting in the car? Make sure you get all the information on it, license plate #, color, make, model.
To your question, yes we have gun. When we are able to have the time we are going to get our concealed weapons permit.
No one was sitting in the car. We did get all of the informtion, but when we woke up at 6 this morning, the car was gone.
We noticed that there were a bunch of teens going into a house down the street kind of sneakily, so DH thinks that maybe some teeny-bopper didn't want to park in front of the house because it looked like there was alcohol. I'm not convinced. If I see the car back at any time, I have the non-emergency number programmed into my phone.
This is me too. I mean, to keep your kids safe you should store guns in a locked place with the ammunition in another location. How do you think you'll have time to get that all together if there is an intruder?
https://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/guns.htm
A number of studies [9], [10], [11], [12], suggest that even kids who are trained not to touch guns can't resist, and that parents have unrealistic expectations about their kids' behavior around guns. That's why parents are encouraged to keep guns unloaded and locked separately from ammunition , and to ask about guns at the houses where their children play.
H has a few, but the only one we keep out and ready to use is a .45
Our parents live out in the middle of no where so he took me to a field one day and taught me how to shoot it. I've only "felt" the need to use it once, but it was just an ignorant maintenance man that didn't lock.
Guns used to make me nervous, but now I feel better knowing that I could protect myself if I was home alone.