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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former Recon Marine here.  Feel free to drop by my house any night you'd please.  [/quote]
Not a marine, but if you do come into my home at 4am you better have a good game plan or else it's one shot to your chest with a follow up through your head. I'll then call 911 and tell the police to send over the crew to take the trash out.[/quote]
Too many Clint Eastwood (Magnum 44) movies for you.  :roll: [/quote]
Agree. The tough-guy gun owners don't seem to realize that if someone breaks into your house with the goal of hurting you, he is not going to wait for you to take your gun out of its locked case and load it. You will come out of your bathroom after taking a piss, or maybe just be lying in bed asleep, and that's when you will get grabbed. The alternative is to keep your gun loaded and easily available at all times, which is crazy foolish if you have kids or anyone else ever in your house. You are living a fantasy in your head. [/quote]
That is not true.  Quick-access safes have been around for decades are both reliable and fast.
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So do you carry that safe around the house with you?  Or do you just have several of them located in every room of the house, so when an intruder grabs you, you can knock him down with your cool kung-fu moves, and then quickly open the nearby safe for your loaded gun before he recovers?

The only way a safe like that makes sense is in a situation where you actually hear the intruder breaking in, and have time to get to the safe in advance, and then also have the training and opportunity to shoot the intruder.  IMHO, if you actually hear the intruder breaking in, a better response is to run out of the house and call the police.

I say all this not as some anti-gun crusader.  I own three guns myself, and I learned to shoot before I was 12.  I just don't think it's realistic at all to believe you're going to successfully use a gun for personal protection unless (1) you've had lots of special training, and (2) you are routinely in the particular sort of situation that might require you to use the gun for personal protection.  For example, if you are a security guard in a rough neighborhood, then I could see a gun being helpful as a self-defense tool in your professional capacity.  If you live in an area where you routinely need to be alone in remote locations and therefore might be an easy target for criminals, then maybe you might benefit from knowing how to use a handgun.  If you're a suburban housewife or white-collar worker who's worried about home break-ins in Chevy Chase, I don't think you benefit from having a gun in the house, and you likely are creating more risk than you're removing.  If you want more protection, get a dog or maybe an alarm system with a panic button.  Don't get a gun.
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