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re: Do you own a gun?
Posted on 6/15/14 at 8:46 am to SoFla Tideroller
Posted on 6/15/14 at 8:46 am to SoFla Tideroller
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Get a gun.
Or a big dog.
But seriously my GSD has protected me several times in ways that a gun cannot. There's just something about them that inherently scares off bad guys.
With a weapon I have to engage the bad guy somehow for it to be effective, either by declaring I have a weapon, displaying it or actually shooting it...that means I also have to be vigilant enough to recognize trouble at all times and be prepared to deal with the consequences of using a weapon on another person, which even in self defense I imagine would be a headache and an experience that most people would like to avoid.
...now a big arse German Shepherd that sits in my yard all day, barks like crazy at any approacher and destroys anything that enters my fence line...that is preferable, at least in my mind, to owning a firearm. I do own one but it's a LR and of limited use in self defense.
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Posted on 6/15/14 at 9:31 am to KSGamecock
Posted on 6/15/14 at 12:44 pm to KSGamecock
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...now a big arse German Shepherd that sits in my yard all day, barks like crazy at any approacher and destroys anything that enters my fence line...that is preferable,
German Shepherd is probably the best deterrent there is. I took mine down South with me when I went back in 2005. I stayed at a rent house that we had and the neighborhood had gotten much worse over the 10 years I was gone. People would cross the street to avoid walking by this dog. Unfortunately someone poisoned her, and I was never able to bring her back to Ak.
Posted on 6/15/14 at 11:34 pm to KSGamecock
A dog is only your first line of defense, and even then only as an alarm system.
Dogs are easily poisoned or shot as many an overzealous Cop or desperate crook has proven.
The locks on your doors and windows, as well as your home alarm system, is your second line of defense.
But criminals learned long ago how to get past those.
You are your third line of defense. You will be what stands between harm and your family.
It's your choice how the LEOs end up writing their incident report ... what sort of statistic you choose to be.
A firearm is both a tool and insurance. It can both feed and protect your loved ones and you when no one else will. History has proven that over and over again.
We're not the most well-armed society in the world, just the largest. Israel is the most well armed ... ask yourself why, then realize that it is coming here eventually.
The first step to a dictatorship is always disarming the citizenry. Our forefathers warned us against letting it happen. We'd be absolute fools to allow it to happen.
And oh, BTW, our military and most of our LEOs would never allow it to happen. Only the UN could even try and foreign troops would be massacred in this country if they were to try and our leadership that allowed it ... they would not like what would happen to them.
Look at it this way.
Since Obango was elected there hve been enough guns and ammo sold to private citizens in this country ... to outfit the five largest armies in the world. Think about that. Fifty*five million firearms and seven billion rounds of ammo sold to private citizens in this country in the last six years. That's not counting all the FTF transactions nor the guns that were already owned by us prior to 2008.
Dogs are easily poisoned or shot as many an overzealous Cop or desperate crook has proven.
The locks on your doors and windows, as well as your home alarm system, is your second line of defense.
But criminals learned long ago how to get past those.
You are your third line of defense. You will be what stands between harm and your family.
It's your choice how the LEOs end up writing their incident report ... what sort of statistic you choose to be.
A firearm is both a tool and insurance. It can both feed and protect your loved ones and you when no one else will. History has proven that over and over again.
We're not the most well-armed society in the world, just the largest. Israel is the most well armed ... ask yourself why, then realize that it is coming here eventually.
The first step to a dictatorship is always disarming the citizenry. Our forefathers warned us against letting it happen. We'd be absolute fools to allow it to happen.
And oh, BTW, our military and most of our LEOs would never allow it to happen. Only the UN could even try and foreign troops would be massacred in this country if they were to try and our leadership that allowed it ... they would not like what would happen to them.
Look at it this way.
Since Obango was elected there hve been enough guns and ammo sold to private citizens in this country ... to outfit the five largest armies in the world. Think about that. Fifty*five million firearms and seven billion rounds of ammo sold to private citizens in this country in the last six years. That's not counting all the FTF transactions nor the guns that were already owned by us prior to 2008.
This post was edited on 6/15/14 at 11:40 pm
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