On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 06:12 PM, Anonymous User wrote:
At 02:07 PM 1/6/02 -0800, Petro wrote:
Second, what makes you aware that there is someone in your home? Usually it's noises they are making (I would assume). Have you ever listened to your house at night? Every place I've lived there are all sorts of mechanical noises off and on all night long. Which your nervous system has learned. Other sounds it hasn't. The subtle click of the cocker engaging will (a) be lost in the other noises and (b) is innocuous enough that they probably won't. Yes, since the invaders have not learned what's 'normal'.
If you're the type of person who spends time in other peoples homes while they're sleeping or away, I expect you've gotten used to many of these sounds. Or you're oblivious to them.
If it was something I worried about (I don't keep a loaded
firearm in the house for home protection at this point, I'm not high enough profile for the Feebs or the BATF to want to raid my "compound", nor am I a sufficient irritant to the local Gestapo, and my neighborhood is relative free of home burglary/home invasion type crimes that I feel it is better to keep the guns in a locker than on my bedside table)
Me too, similar circumstance, with a kid in the house too, though I'm a little ashamed to admit it -its like decrying those who don't get vaccines and then not getting one yourself. But (using the analogy again) maybe the frail shouldn't get vaccinated because of danger to selves. (Assuming rational frail.) I'm thinking about a high-up clock-safe though. Or a more expensive (less reliable) finger-safe by the door.
There are 3 cases why one would keep a loaded firearm in the house for self defense--well, at least three, but three general cases is all I can think of off the top of my head: (1) Bad Neighborhood: The area that one lives in has a high incidence of B&E/Home Invasion, and one is afraid that their home will be hit. While this is a *very* good reason to have a loaded firearm close at hand, quite frankly there is a higher chance that the home will be burgled while you are away. Smart thing to do is move to a less dangerous neighborhood. (2) One has brought oneself to the notice of the kind of people who can use force with little or no repercussion, be that government or any other gang of thugs, and one wants to "go down fighting". (lets' face it, no matter how good you are, no matter how fast and accurate, you aren't going to win a firefight with the kind and number of troops the government, be it city, state, or federal is going to throw at you, all you can hope to do is repel the first attack, and take more of them than there are of you). In this case, there isn't a lot you can do. (3) One has developed a NGO enemy of some kind, either you did something to piss off the kind of person who will crawl in your window one night and slit your throat. Lock and load--there is nothing else you can do. I guess (thinking a little further) that there are 2 other cases: (4) One is doing something that may bring #3 to come about. (Don't do that) (5) Being Prepared.
All you P7 heads are too elite for me, but to each their own. I've collected from NAA .22 to a wide (12 round) Makharov to H & K. No .45's; so sue me :-)
Nothing special about the .45 acp. -- "Those without creative minds and agile fingers are of course welcome to hurry up with my fries. And they'll probably use a GUI to take my order, too." - Tom Christiansen