Utah_jeepster said:
Sound_Man said:
The best alarm I have found is made by Smith & Wesson. :wink:
jhiggins said:
That sux and I hate to hear that but like Sound_man said
Shame on you J... you know better and the rest should know that to point a gun at a thief...you may be commiting a crime.
I am sorry to say this gents but protected by S&W or Ruger (my personal CCW) or any other gun will get you in trouble. I hate car thiefs and other scum bag's just the same, but if you find a creep breaking in the best thing is to call the police. The law states if you shoot an un-armed person who wasnt threatening your life you have commited a crime a capitol crime at that. The wording varies state to state but the police are trained to handle this cituation. Be a good witness thou.. get a good look at the scum bag.. if he is in a car get the plate number. Dont be a dead hero...just a smart one and put the "crim" behind bars and give him a record.
Agreed that it is a crime to shoot an unarmed person. What I have done and will do again when and if necessary is detain a person(s) at gunpoint and call the police and let them do their job. When my house was broken into I held 2 guys down in my yard at gun point until the police showed (my neighbor made the call) and I know that if I had not let them see that I was armed they would have fled. Is the reason they got caught because I had a gun? Could be. Would they rip someone else off after they were done with me? Probably. Do I condone the use of weapons for civilians to enforce law at their own hand? NO. Should everyone own a gun? No.
I do however believe in our right to bear arms as Americans and know that if a thief knows that this house/car owner/land owner has a gun they are more apt to leave it alone. As far as I am concerned that is all good in my book.
I have a concealed firearms permit. I am sure that most of you over the age of 21 could get one too as long as you have not been convicted of a felony. Do I conceal my firearms? Hell no. I want every scumbag that might even consider being stupid to know that I am armed. It may make them think twice before they get stupid.
I have years and years of military training and I am sure that my opinion and stature towards weapons and the way that I handle them is different than most people. I want to bear arms and I want thieves, crooks, and drug dealers and screwed up people to know that I carry one. I wish that everyone I know was trained in how to use a handgun and carried one with them all the time. Would this lead to anarchy? No. Did it 200 years ago? No. It lead to a very strong group of people that were able to get this country on it's feet and make something of the country. Crime was almost unheard of back then and when it did happen it was resolved very quickly.
BAH!! I am on a rant and venting. I have been in a few combat zones in countries where people were not able to fend for themselves. Here in the US we can and I think we should. If some crack head wants to try to rip me off I will rip off his life by making sure he winds up behind bars not dead. If some @$$hole wants to mess with my car, jeep, or the tree in my front yard I guarantee that if I say stop and the guy thinks he can run and get away he will. If I stay stop or I will shoot they stop and stop quick.
I really don’t mean to offend anyone with my views but they are mine and I am free to have them. That’s the 1st amendment. I choose to bear arms and that is my right. BTW that’s amendment #5. I spent 17 years doing my part to make sure that everyone, from tree hugger to want to be Nazi’s that live in this country are free to voice his or her opinion. I also spent a great deal of time in other countries trying to help people or nations that do not have the freedom that we have to voice themselves or to protect themselves the way we can. Then when I hear someone say that bearing arms is a bad thing it chaps my @$$. Why is it that this country has never had a full-scale invasion from one of our enemies? I'll tell ya if you have not figured this out yet. 1 in 3 people in this country own a gun. That 3rd of the population owns enough weapons to supply the other 2/3rds and guess what, when threatened we as Americans will use our weapons. At least that’s what history has shown. With all the "greenies" and "humanitarians" running around today there is no telling. The French were that way and it took the Germans less than 30 days to take their country. Do you think the Canadians or the Mexicans could do that to us? I doubt it. The civilian population is armed, and feared by other countries.
RANT RANT RANT.
Let me get off this soapbox before I explode.
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