Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Massad Ayoob, A Gun In The Safety, Of Your Own Home?

I'm not gonna fault anyone who thinks they need to carry

I have a revolver hidden near the entrance of each door of my house and one in the night stand. The only time they aren't readily accessible is when family comes to visit - I put them back in the safe until they leave.

If only have 1 gun that I'd want to carry - thats my LCP as someone mentioned earlier. I think I'm going to get the 9mm just because I want one.

Herb Clutter lived in a virtually crime-free part of Kansas the day that Richard Hickock and Perry Smith slaughtered him with his entire family. The book Truman Capote wrote about it, In Cold Blood, is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand the criminal mind. It certainly motivated me to start carrying a pistol on my person at home at all times as soon as I could do so, and I still follow the practice. I put my pistol on when I get dressed in the morning, and take it off when I go to bed at night. In my home or on the road, it doesn't matter. Evil can and does show up without warning anywhere.

Oh, and as for dogs... I have several cases in my files where the intending murderer(s) killed the dog(s) as the first phase of the attack. Almost any dog can be lured closer with a tasty bit of raw meat, then shot in the head with a .22 or other quiet weapon. If your dog(s) are your first line of warning/defense, what's your second line?

My second line is a .357 double tap center of mass to anyone who enters my home uninvited. If the situation progresses beyond that,..it's a very short trip to retrieve the FN FAL in the closet.

,...but this is rural central Kentucky,...not the outback of desolate Kansas. The entire area is an armed camp.

A home invasion out here is just a creative way to commit suicide. Hence,...you very, very rarely hear of one.

"Oh, and as for dogs... I have several cases in my files where the intending murderer(s) killed the dog(s) as the first phase of the attack."

I used to work with a very pretty single lady that was always hitting on me. The problem was that she a radical union member, a Democrat and didn't believe that citizens had the right to own a firearm for any reason. I told I had a lot of firearms and would use one if someone broke into my home. She asked why wouldn't I just call 911 and I told I would after I shot the intruder. She said she didn't need a firearm because her dog would protect her. I asked if her dog had a gun and she said of course not. I told her that if somebody broke into her house they'd just shoot her dog first thing. She couldn't imagine that ever happening..

So does anyone here have a "shower gun"?

We have shower dogs.

This is a picture of my wife in the shower. The little one is waiting for her to come out, the big one is hoping to get in.

Probobly not all that much for protection.....

Used to carry at all times. That was BC. Now with young children in the house, I choose the bat method. The dog gives the wife additional piece of mind when I travel for work.

These threads always amaze that there are so many people that can predict the future.

One of the most profound statements I have heard in > 50 years of studying self defense:

"Think more about the consequences of failure than the odds of occurrence"

Don't worry you have the rest of your life to act in an emergency


mike r

You stopped carrying because you had kids?

LOL.

Please explain that logic.

Do you carry when you're not at home?

Sometimes.

I didn’t stop carrying totally. I stopped carrying inside the house. When I get home I will park it in the safe until I leave again. We are talking first grade and preschool. They know guns are for hunting and self defense but they don’t need to see me strapped while I make tacos for dinner or play LEGOs with them...

Roger that.

We always had loaded guns in our house when I was a kid. Everyone knew where they were.

I've done the same with my kids. Never had any issues.