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Do you keep a gun by your bed?

Do you keep a gun by your bed

  • I lean right and keep a gun by my bed

    Votes: 20 33.9%

  • I lean right and keep no gun by my bed

    Votes: 8 13.6%

  • I lean left and keep a gun by my bed

    Votes: 9 15.3%

  • I lean left and keep no gun by my bed

    Votes: 22 37.3%
  • Total voters
    59
americanwoman said:
I just have this image of a grown man cuddling in bed with his guns. Certainly an unusual menage a trois, right? :lol:
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Now now, lady, I never said the guns were in my bed, I just said they were beside the bed... ;)
 
sawyerloggingon said:
Remind me not to break into your home in the middle of the night. :lol:
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well we have two dogs and an alarm. The older dog is worthless now since he is deaf but the 7 year old barks like crazy if anyone even drives up the driveway.

and if things get real ugly, I have another M4 in an easy access safe with 30 rounds of quad 556 (hp, AP, tracer, and FMJ) and a Gen 3+ NVD on it
 
Non firearm weapons suggestion

Knives are for small fast people
clubs are for big strong people

a small woman with a baseball bat isn't all that effective
 
americanwoman said:
I really need to get one of those. I used to keep my .380 under the mattress but after my daughter was born, I moved it to a more secure location but not very easy access.






Dogs are a great alarm system. Good thing my dog, while being a huge baby, looks all mean and tough. Plus I saw somewhere that according to statistics, houses with dogs are much less likely to be robbed.
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Yah. If a stranger talked puppy talk to my big dog he would maybe love him to death...but he puts out plenty of advance warning as soon as he knows people are there. I really doubt we have much to worry about where we are at. Its a fairly well off area. Plus...the dog already has a bit of a reputation. After about two weeks of living there one of the neighborhood teens thought it would a good idea to cut across the back acre. The dog went tear assin off after him and the kid started running. To the dog...that means game on and the dog caught him and grabbed him. Cept...the dog doesnt have hands...he only has teeth. SO...he grabbed him with his teeth. Right on the ass. We ended up paying for doctor bills and a 6 foot high fence around the property...but the reputation alone has far surpassed the benefit of any alarm system we could install.
 
TurtleDude said:
Non firearm weapons suggestion

Knives are for small fast people
clubs are for big strong people

a small woman with a baseball bat isn't all that effective
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We keep pepper foam canisters available. I dont want my wife wrestling with anyone with either a knife or a club.
 
americanwoman said:
I just have this image of a grown man cuddling in bed with his guns. Certainly an unusual menage a trois, right? :lol:
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Considering there is another active thread about 93% of British men cuddling in bed with other British men, I'll take the American man cuddling with a firearm image for $800 Alex.
 
VanceMack said:
We keep pepper foam canisters available. I dont want my wife wrestling with anyone with either a knife or a club.
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spray em with the PS and then cut them hard with the knife!

when I was in New Haven, I couldn't own a pistol on campus. and my residential college was on the corner of campus and a short cut to an area I had to go to at least twice a week was from a scrub field at some point, gangs of 3-4 "utes" would mug students there with baseball bats. SO I had the perfect counter solution-a can of military grade CS gas and a Gerber Mark II. never had to deploy that combination though
 
Dragonfly said:
yeah...because you're so identifiable here....:roll:
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Just because some might be paranoid doesn't mean the NSA isn't on to them:mrgreen:
 
VanceMack said:
We keep pepper foam canisters available. I dont want my wife wrestling with anyone with either a knife or a club.
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I heard that if you're car has an alarm with a key-fob that can activate it like a panic button kinda thing, that keeping your key-fob by the bed is a great idea.

Many people can activate that car alarm from their bedroom.
Of course this works better if your car is not parked in a garage.

Alarms sounding, lights flashing, and pissed off neighbors coming to see what's going on are a great way to scare off intruders.

Also - I ALWAYS have my cell phone by my bed.
 
Dragonfly said:
yeah...because you're so identifiable here....:roll:
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I don't give out present, personal information on chat forums.

You have a problem with that?

Guess how much I care?


Good day.
 
DA60 said:
I don't give out present, personal information on chat forums.

You have a problem with that?

Guess how much I care?


Good day.
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Then why bother posting at all?????

You brought nothing to the conversation other than paranoid nonsense.

Good day to you too.
 
Not right by the bed, but in the bedroom office accessible in seconds. I do however have a 5 lb. trailer wrench between the box spring and mattress.

Registered Republican but apparently no longer welcome in the party....I suppose I'm a RINO in todays world.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
I do but then again I have a loaded gun in every room in my house.:lol:

EDIT: I'm interested in how your politics relates to this decision too.
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The poll didn't reflect my true political lean; I lean right on most things and lean to the middle on the others.

I do keep a gun (pistol - small 25 caliber so the wife can use it quick) in the night stand. And, one just inside the closet (a Ruger Mini-30 with multiple large capacity mags).
 
I have to keep mine farther away in the closet. I've been known to sleep walk. I doubt that I would sleep shoot, but I'm not taking any chances.
 
I have my 1911 with .45 ACP hallow point

and my Merlin .30-30 Lever Action rifle with hallows as well.
 
I lean right, but there is no gun beside my bed. I do have several in my house though.

I have too many children and children's friends coming over to keep any kind of fire arm loaded and readily available. It will take me a few minutes to get the pistol, unlock it and then load it, but I can accept the delay.
 
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CRUE CAB said:
Yea, sure Chuck. This whole thread and forum is agenda driven. Get used to it.
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Names not Chuck. Agenda is one thing, asserting that I'm a "volunteer victim" because I choose other methods of self defense is being belligerent. I don't object to your choices, so keep off mine.
 
AliHajiSheik said:
Names not Chuck. Agenda is one thing, asserting that I'm a "volunteer victim" because I choose other methods of self defense is being belligerent. I don't object to your choices, so keep off mine.
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OK Mr Norris. So when you are older and a 20 year old with a gun makes it into your home you are going to do.........?????????
 
As far as which way I lean, right or left, I dunno. Ask different people here and you'll get different opinions. It depends on the issue I guess.

I always keep my guns locked away in safes lately. My 13 year old niece and her mischievous tweenaged friends seem to be hanging around here all the time ever since I got a new 60 inch plasma HDTV and subscribed to Netflix. I'd hate to accidentally leave a gun laying around somewhere and one of them get a hold of it.

I'm not really worried about anyone breaking in at night because this house is very secure. Heavily reinforced solid steel doors & frames. 1st floor windows are so high off the ground that you would need a ladder to get in them. And the windows are 1/2 inch thick Lexan with good locks and reinforced window frames. I guarantee you couldn't shatter them with a baseball bat. All doors and windows have loud alarms.

If someone tries to break in they are going to wake me up for sure. And they might even get in. But it would take them so long to get in that I would have plenty of time to go get a gun. Or alternatively, boil some oil and throw it at them.

TurtleDude said:
Non firearm weapons suggestion

Knives are for small fast people
clubs are for big strong people

a small woman with a baseball bat isn't all that effective
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What about this...
 

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CRUE CAB said:
OK Mr Norris. So when you are older and a 20 year old with a gun makes it into your home you are going to do.........?????????
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So much fear. So scared.

What if what if what if....

Not everybody wants/needs/chooses to live in constant fear.

Plenty of people live in very low crime-rate areas.

Simply not living in constant fear of the ultimate "what if" scenario (when those scenarios are few and far between in many places) is not "volunteering to be a victim".

It's simply living life with a different outlook. And that outlook isn't always pathetically ignorant, just in case that's the direction you care to take after reading this.

Lots of people live happy, safe, and violent-crime free lives, and die of old age in comfort and warm surroundings without ever having to need a gun for protection.
 
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