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Why do these stories almost always come from Texas, usually somewhere near Houston? I mean, I’m glad law-abiding people are defending themselves, but what the heck is going on over there that so *many* of them have to do it?
I realize Houston isn’t all of Texas, but maybe you all should rethink that move-to-Texas-for-2A-freedom meme. There are all sorts of places in the West where you’ll have just as much firearms freedom, likely more…and you’re also a lot less likely to be forced to use your firearms to shoot somebody.
On that note, I guess it’s time to start carrying consistently at home; if I’m ever unlucky enough to suffer a home invasion, I’d rather be able to shoot the invader *before* somebody gets forced into a closet. Also, I’m curious as to what the young man used to ventilate the robber. Was it a closet full of guns, or a single just-in-case pistol? From the nonlethal wounds, I’m guessing a pistol.
Ing, I home carry always. We’ve had a series of home invasions in the area. Just yesterday we had another, violent invasion.
Let’s repeat the gospel “Where do 100% of home invasions occur?”
So far, they all occur at other people’s houses. 🙂
This reminds me of something I was thinking about the other day — what makes the difference between someone who owns/carries guns and someone who may not be anti-gun but (like almost everyone I know) chooses not to own any.
There are two very different and equally valid ways to look at the same thing. The odds of an armed home invasion ever happening to any given person are actually incredibly small (where I live, probably far smaller than the norm). Going by the odds, I probably wouldn’t need to worry about home carry in three lifetimes.
Yet there’s also the question of what’s at stake in that game of chance — my life and the lives and welfare of my whole family.
Choosing not have a gun accessible would be perfectly reasonable given the long odds against my ever needing it. Choosing to have a gun within reach would also be perfectly reasonable, considering that it’s always possible to lose a gamble on even the most favorable odds, and that in this case losing means death (or at least terrible trauma).
I’d guess almost everyone here (me included) is looking at the high stakes of the game as being more important than the long odds against ever having to play.
Great line of thought, Ing. I choose to have the gun available for that one in a million probability. It’s too late to think of buying a gun at 1 am when you hear the sound of breaking glass.
Most of us, myself included, do not live alone and our decision to not own a gun can be disastrous for the innocents that we have responsibility to protect.
For whatever reason the Petit family decided they did not need a gun. And now there’s only 1 guilt ridden survivor left from that decision. And if he’s not guilt ridden, he should be.
Houston is like our Chicago. The rest of the state is fine. Even most of Dallas.
“Hogue actually got it’s start not with pistol grips, but with steering wheel adapters for the centerfire bicycle.”
As the neighbor was extolling the virtues of guns it appears he was censored. Can’t have too much gun saved the day stuff. It is a shame that 2 model citizens got away, Randy
So will he take responsibility when a kid stuffs some M&M’s in his dad’s shotgun and blows away his sister? “Aw, isn’t that cute, a kid thinks guns should shoot chocolate, let’s encourage that idea.” Why are people not tearing him a new one over this and the “blast both barrels through the door” crap? (I mean, I know why, but WTF?)
While I’m commenting anyway I’d appreciate if TTAG could run an Irresponsible Gun (stuff) Co. of the Day on this: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/nra-ex-girlfriend-zombie-target-173325873.html I didn’t see a post on this on here and this is the sort of thing that gun blogs need to get out in front of and tear a company like this apart for being so stupid and disgusting. Lots of deaths and injuries with guns are to ex-girlfriends and ex-wives and it’s no f’ing joke. Even if you actually were a horrible misogynist and don’t care, it looks bad for gun owners when these things happen, and joking/encouraging that behavior is NOT acceptable. We (not to mention the NRA) need to be more proactive in telling companies like this that it’s totally unacceptable to market something like this. (If you already posted about it, forgive me.)
Oh come on. He’s corresponding with a 7 year old kid. You sound as hyper-sensitive and over-the-top as the left.
And saying that target dummy is promoting domestic violence? Really? Really…? So anyone who doesn’t care about this zombie dummy target is a misogynist?
Besides who cares what kind of violence it is — gun violence, domestic violence, whatever. The same kind of thought is what the left does — “We have to eliminate GUN/DOMESTIC/HATE violence” Why distinguish? If it’s wrong, it’s wrong.
7.62xDelicious anyone?
http://www.chocolateammo.com
Sure, a chocolate-shooter. Then some poor kid can bring one to a park in NYC, some self-absorbed beyotch will call the cops and the kid’s dad will get arrested.
I’ve seen this movie before.
All roads lead to gun grabbing for zombie gerney. His choice is fine for him & I wholehearted think he should let criminals kill him. Hopefully we can get this on PPV./// Gottleib just sent me a census & it clearly states that the root of all this is the trayvon shooting & I sure agree. Randy
Could this actually be another Biden gaff? His support for chocolate bullets goes against Michelle’s child obesity fight!
I think RF posted this to show how indoctrinated kids are against guns, to assume that guns are inherently bad, that they hurt people and make them sad. I know when I was 7, I had a respect of firearms, and knew that they could be dangerous, but that they had a very important place in life. I guess I just had good parents.
Also, taofledermaus is awesome.
Today’s special at Walmart, the deluxe variety pack of chocolate ammo, includes an assortment of 12 calibers, in your choice of milk or dark chocolate. And don’t forget to pick up an extra box for grandma. Also, just in time for Father’s Day, the new 12 ga. Pez dispenser.
Just wait till Bloomy finds out. All candy bullets larger than a .22lr will be banned!
There’s only one firearms law necessary:
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Isn’t it telling when an idiot kid’s fantasyland idea sounds more practical than anything a leftist comes up with?
“Then no one will get killed and no one will be sad.”
Except those murdered by knives, clubs, cars, bombs, fire and everything else people have been killing each other with for millenia. Except now, good people won’t be able to defend themselves.
“I really like your idea. If we had guns that shot chocolate not only would our country be easier for tyrants to control, it would be more victimized. People love chocolate. You are a good slave.”
Fixed. If I were this boy’s parents, he’d be grounded ’til he grew a brain.
This issue is a great argument for the end of the era of the “law enforcement officer” and the return of the “peace officer”. If an LEO was actually upholding every law without question then all of their friends, family, co-workers and acquaintances would be locked-up for something within a few short years.
I think the father in the video was completely in the wrong. I watched the video and saw the cell phone pictures. The mothers in the video obviously don’t know what a firearm is, so anything that looks like a gun it treated like a gun. The ‘father’ removed the orange plastic tip (what got him in trouble) and spray painted it chrome to resemble a real firearm even more. He broke rule #1 of gun safety and pointed it at people (kids younger than the kindergardeners that got shot up at Sandy Hook). I thought everyone here on this board is for safe responsible gun use/ownership. Many of us teach our children with a BB gun then go up to a .22LR from there. The father in the video let his kid run around pointing a gun that shoots something at other kids. Who on this board would let their kid point a BB gun at any stranger. When I was a kid we shot a cow with a BB gun and got our asses busted, and rightfully so, by Dad and had to fix the fence the cow ran though.
The gun in question is an airsoft pistol. It shoots a 6mm hard plastic BB that weighs 0.12gm-0.40gm. It shoots anywhere from 200-400fps, faster than a paintball, and faster than many BB guns. This isn’t a cap gun that just makes noise. The BBs leave welts and feel like getting a bee sting. SO IT HURTS.
The father was shooting it in a crowded park. Letting his kid aim it at 2 yr-olds and other kids. If some tool was shooting your toddler with a BB that HURTS would you not put a stop to it? Why did everyone expect the mothers in the video just to lay down and take it? Because we have our rights…. That include violating the right of a toddler to play in peace at the park?
One of the biggest complaints gun advocates have with the gun-grabbers is that their arguments are all based on emotion, no facts. We have had an all out assault on our 2nd Amendment rights since Obama was reelected. We have become sensitive to every attack that seems like a gun-grabber attempt that we automatically just fight back without looking at the merit of the argument.
This is an emotional issue for us. Everyone is posting, “I wish the mom would just die”, “what a bunch of pussies”, “oh, its just a toy, it doesn’t hurt that much”, “give me a freaking break”.
I say it is emotional because no one has bothered to check FACTS. Just look up “kid gets shot by air soft gun” in your favorite search engine like Yahoo/Google and watch some videos before making a semi-informed decision/posting a semi-informed comment. Almost every one of the videos feature some idiot kid dancing after he volunteered to get shot by a buddy like a scene from the movie Jackass. Or better yet get an air soft pistol for yourself and shoot some tin cans. If you can poke holes in a tin can you can certainly leave a welt (cause significant pain) to a toddler.
I actually wonder if this stunt was orchestrated by a gun control advocate. If you saw the picture you could image that on the front page of a paper. A middle-aged white male pointing what looks to be a 9mm into a gun-free playground through the fence at kids.
We should be most vocal when someone is doing something stupid with a gun. If we don’t hold irresponsible gun owners, even if the guns are BB guns or AirSoft guns, accountable, we are leaving it to others to do it. And their solution is just to ban everything.
I think this is a job for the Mythbusters, ballistics gel, and a shotgun with slugs replaces by Hershey Kisses.
Anyways as much as I loathe Biden, he is responding to a seven year old child. To ignore him would be rude, to respond with the intalectual level a man of his age should be at, would be assanine.
Mythbusters++
Chitty chitty bang bang!
Buy a Hershey. Buy a Hershey.
If Biden had his way this is what our military assault vehicles would look like.
Yeah man,peace & love….the colors. I see we are back to the gun just as likely to hurt a family member as a robber,lol. Here’s hoping the first robber parts his scalp with a nice head canoe, Randy