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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
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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My house has 3 layers of defense, and if they can get past them, then I'll have to settle for my Ka-Bar collection. Most people can't hit what they aim at anyway.

Again, I don't begrudge your choices, lighten up on mine.
 
Dragonfly said:
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 fare 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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I have no fear. Its called precaution. Just like keeping a fire extinguisher in my home or jumper cables in my car. You hope you never need them, but you really wish you did if you ever do.
And lots of people die violent deaths at the hands criminals. And criminals will not care about your "outlook" on things.
 
I lean other and have a dog, and video recorder-monitor, two deadbolts on the doors, and a loaded Mossberg 12 gauge w/000 buckshot & slugs next to our bed @ night.
You're lacking at some level for protection-preservation.
 
AliHajiSheik said:
My house has 3 layers of defense, and if they can get past them, then I'll have to settle for my Ka-Bar collection. Most people can't hit what they aim at anyway.

Again, I don't begrudge your choices, lighten up on mine.
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Worst case scenario comes and you may end up with a knife in a gun fight.
 
CRUE CAB said:
I have no fear. Its called precaution. Just like keeping a fire extinguisher in my home or jumper cables in my car. You hope you never need them, but you really wish you did if you ever do.
And lots of people die violent deaths at the hands criminals. And criminals will not care about your "outlook" on things.
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Every time you respond with "what if.........." in defense of someone saying they don't own/want/need a gun, you're showing fear.
 
I am a Lib. I keep a shotgun with me. Also have a .22 pistol and rifle and a Walther P99.

Edit to add: Also have a Walther PPK. It was my Dad's he bought it in the 60s?!?!
 
Dragonfly said:
Every time you respond with "what if.........." in defense of someone saying they don't own/want/need a gun, you're showing fear.
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What if you get a flat tire on your way home. You have a spare? Well you must be showing "fear" of a flat.
The only thing I fear is my not being able to defend home and family at the drop of the hat in a worse case scenario. That kind of fear is a good fear. It shows I give a damn about my home and family and am willing to do whatever whenever to protect them. Anything else is for men that have no balls to do so and are worthless husbands and fathers.
 
45 in headboard cond 2 with a 150 lumen flashlight that has a strobe feature (amazingly stunning if you are not prepared for it), long barrel AK clone in bedroom con 2, mosberg pump with #4 in living room for 4 footed varmints.

The rest unloaded and in the closet that stores my hunting/shooting clothes.
 
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From my bed, I am seven seconds away from my weapon.
 
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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I don't keep a gun and I see no need to. If I lived out in the country I would...but there's no need to where I'm at.
 
To be clear, my "political lean," according to every test I have taken on the subject, suggests that I lean right, but barely. 55% conservative / 45% liberal.

So I clicked on "lean right," as there was no "middle of the road," option.

I have no children at home. I have a gun either in my car or on my person, (everywhere I go,) several in the safe and one, at arm's distance, from my bed.

But do not confuse me with a gun "nutter." I support sensible gun regulation and I do not fall for all that NRA, "They're coming for our guns!" nonsense.
 
CRUE CAB said:
What if you get a flat tire on your way home. You have a spare? Well you must be showing "fear" of a flat.
The only thing I fear is my not being able to defend home and family at the drop of the hat in a worse case scenario. That kind of fear is a good fear. It shows I give a damn about my home and family and am willing to do whatever whenever to protect them. Anything else is for men that have no balls to do so and are worthless husbands and fathers.
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Not one single person is saying you can't do what you think is necessary for your own comfort.

The issue is when you badger/bully others for their choices and make ignorant assumptions and just plain stupid comments.
 
CRUE CAB said:
What if you get a flat tire on your way home. You have a spare? Well you must be showing "fear" of a flat.
The only thing I fear is my not being able to defend home and family at the drop of the hat in a worse case scenario. That kind of fear is a good fear. It shows I give a damn about my home and family and am willing to do whatever whenever to protect them. Anything else is for men that have no balls to do so and are worthless husbands and fathers.
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You lost me at the last sentence. I can think of a few reasons why someone might not want a loaded weapon in the house. There are other options for defending your home and family. Firearm is one, but not the only.
 
voyager1 said:
You lost me at the last sentence. I can think of a few reasons why someone might not want a loaded weapon in the house. There are other options for defending your home and family. Firearm is one, but not the only.
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That last sentence is pure ignorance on so many levels it defies logic.
 
voyager1 said:
You lost me at the last sentence. I can think of a few reasons why someone might not want a loaded weapon in the house. There are other options for defending your home and family. Firearm is one, but not the only.
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I agree that was a broad brush, crass, offensive and assuming statement, Mr. Cab shared but I just consider the source. I have come to expect no less. So take it with a grain of salt.

The FACTS are that one could easily argue, and actually have facts to support them, that a man who keeps a gun by his bead is actually the more "worthless husband and father," especially when children are in the home. I count myself among that crowd. As I said earlier, I am one who keeps a gun by my bed. However, I have no children in my home.

The evidence suggests that on average, having a gun actually increases the likelihood that a person will be injured or killed, rather than that it will be used to protect that individual from harm. If you own a gun, the most likely person you are to shoot is yourself. The next most likely person you are to shoot is a close family member. Homes with guns are a dozen times more likely to have household members or guests killed or injured by the weapon than by an intruder.The odds are much greater that the gun will be used against you or a loved one than that it will be used against an armed assailant or an intruder. Firearms are more often discharged in a homicide, suicide or an accident, than in self-defense. <snip>

In this country gun violence is a daily occurrence. Eighty-five Americans are shot and killed on an average day. Sixty-two percent of those who are killed are the victims of self-inflicted wounds from committing suicide. Most adolescent suicides are committed by youths at home who used the family gun obtained from home. States with weaker gun laws and higher rates of household gun ownership have higher rates of gun suicide and higher overall suicide rates. Although many gun control opponents have argued against counting suicides by firearms as gun-related deaths, because the suicide victim can substitute another form of suicide, Harvard researchers have found that fatality rates for suicide attempts with a gun are over ninety percent while rates for cutting, piercing, and drug overdoses (the other most common methods used to attempt suicide) are under five percent. <snip>

Possessing a gun makes you less safe not more safe - Tulsa FBI | Examiner.com
 
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Dragonfly said:
That last sentence is pure ignorance on so many levels it defies logic.
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How so? Actually, the statistics actually support his claim. Why do you call him ignorant and defying logic? I think you would have been more accurate to say that ,"In my opinion......" That would not have set you up only to be proven wrong as we are all entitled to our opinion. However, we are not entitled to create our own facts.

You cannot think of any reasons that a gun in the house might be a bad idea in certain circumstance? Really?
 
tecoyah said:
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.
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what things make you no longer welcome? btw I was wondering whom or what your registered your weapons with-You claimed you were happy that your guns are registered and KY has no registration
 
AliHajiSheik said:
Assert your agenda driven nonsense somewhere else.

There are more ways to defend oneself than just a gun.
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true, in some situations a flame thrower would be just the ticket
 
Muhammed said:
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.



What about this...
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that's a club
 
Dragonfly said:
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.
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Unfortunately, car alarms are so commonplace that a lot of people just get pissed off that the alarm is going off. And even IF someone calls the police...what is the average response time?

I HOPE intruders would be scared off. But I wont trust my safety and well being to hope.
 
turtledude said:
what things make you no longer welcome? Btw i was wondering whom or what your registered your weapons with-you claimed you were happy that your guns are registered and ky has no registration
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TD... :2wave:

There are many of us who feel that the Republican Party has left us, rather than us leaving the Republican Party.

I think we could both agree the GOP has evolved a LOT in the last decade or so. Some welcome the change, others, not so much.
 
Captain America said:
TD... :2wave:

There are many of us who feel that the Republican Party has left us, rather than us leaving the Republican Party.

I think we could both agree the GOP has evolved a LOT in the last decade or so. Some welcome the change, others, not so much.
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I don't see much difference with the platform now compared to what Reagan ran on
 
TurtleDude said:
I don't see much difference with the platform now compared to what Reagan ran on
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I do.

Thirty-three years.

There is one thing that is constant. That is change.

I love Ronnie but America has changed. The GOP seems to have a hard time adapting to that.

Often, I wonder if it's not so much the GOP policy, as it is those who support it, and the way they present their views. Today's FOXNews generation has a way of turning a lot of people off with their views and the way they present them. Many people do not want to be associated with or identified as those kind of people. I certainly don't.
 
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