400k hhi, Vienna, 1 sig sauer p365 with laser sight. But I've shot various guns many times including lots of clay pigeon shooting over my life. I finally decided to keep a gun at home after everything went out of stock and we almost ended up in a post-apocalyptic movie due to a virus slightly worse than the common flu. No longer have any faith in humanity. All we need is a real virus to come along (like with a kill rate of 5% or more) for our society to descend into chaotic hell. The police can't even control BLM, wait until people are rushing the stores for the last can of soup armed to the teeth.

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Anonymous wrote:We have guns, and because of my husbands job most people know we have them.m. I am huge hypocrite because my husband is one of the few people I feel safe with having a gun. Most of our friends are anti-gun and agree that my husband is one of the few people they feel safe with owning a gun. He has had extensive training, is an expert marksman and nothing is more important to him than gun safety. You won’t see him wearing any ridiculous 3 percenters shirts or pretending be some kind of sheepdog either.

I guess I should add none of our guns were recent purchases, and our kids have never shot a gun. If my kids wanted to when they was older and went through the gun safety classes, my husband would take them to the range, but as it stand they are still young and impulsive. They would never be able to touch a gun in our home since ours are stored properly in a safe, and in a room that the kids don’t even access to. However they have been taught what to do if they ever see a gun at someone’s house or a friends tries to show them one.

What are you teaching them to do?

Children first need to be taught: “If you see a gun: STOP!; Don’t touch; Leave the area; Tell an adult.” Drill them from time to time on this to see if they remember.

When older, children (even if you never expect them to touch or ever see a firearm) should be taught the four rules of firearm safety, especially rule one:

1. All guns are always loaded. All the time. Always.

[1.B. There is no such thing as a toy or pretend gun, only practice guns that must be treated as real.]

2. Never point a firearm at anything you’re not willing to destroy.

3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire.

4. Be sure of your target, and what is beyond it.

People today, especially kids, are immersed in exposure to firearms, whether they or their parents realize it or not. Video games, TV and cinema constantly show the use (indeed, typically the gross and criminal misuse) of firearms.

Kids need to understand from the earliest possible age that firearms are dangerous, just like chain saws and household chemicals, and are not something to just pick up and fool around with.

Adults who decide to arm themselves need to get adequate training and experience to be sure their firearm will do what is needed and they can handle it safely. This may not require much, but merely owning a firearm makes one a competent marksman to approximately the same extent that merely owning a guitar makes one a musician.

I live next door to you, we make the same amount of money, our kids play together, we might even vote the same way. You’d be surprised how many people own guns.

Bought a shotgun and a Smith and Wesson 40 in April. Both loaded and unlocked. Not like the looters are going to wait for me to open a safe. Pistol on my bedstand shotgun by the front door. Kids are 11 and 14 so they know not to touch them.

Old Town, 400k.

Anonymous wrote:Bought gun in June.
Arlington, 3 kids.

Scares me to see lack of police response to violence. Had neighbor in Boston go through a home invasion. Held at knifepoint. Still has nightmares about it.

No way I let my family ever go through that.

Where are the police???????? They don’t even respond to car robberies. And if BLM or anarchists come to Arlington, who will defend us?

What is a car robbery?
Do you mean theft of a vehicle? And what do you mean they don't respond? Did you get a report? What more do you want?

If by car robbery you mean a car jacking? I am pretty sure Police actually respond out to those.........................

Anonymous wrote:The BLM riots have made me purchase 2 guns.

65 y/o female with no kids.

Fairfax.

Same question to you. Have you actually fired these?

Anonymous wrote:HHI 1.4 mil. Mclean.

Bought 9mm handgun in March. Locked in safe.

It seems that police won’t be defending us from robbers or looters seeing the videos out there. Need to defend my family if needed.

Hope to never have to use it, but if someone breaks in, Better to have it than not.

After seeing all the violence out there and robberies, looting, assault since June, feel even better about having one.

All for being safe. But have you actually fired your 9mm with the ammunition you intend to use, both to function test and confirm you know how to operate it safely and effectively?

As you watch Portland, damage and fires spread out into suburban areas around city. Who bows how much worse it gets i the next few months. Rather have one than not.

Anonymous wrote:The BLM riots have made me purchase 2 guns.

65 y/o female with no kids.

Fairfax.

Were there riots in Fairfax?

The BLM riots have made me purchase 2 guns.

65 y/o female with no kids.

Fairfax.

Bought gun in June.
Arlington, 3 kids.

Scares me to see lack of police response to violence. Had neighbor in Boston go through a home invasion. Held at knifepoint. Still has nightmares about it.

No way I let my family ever go through that.

Where are the police???????? They don’t even respond to car robberies. And if BLM or anarchists come to Arlington, who will defend us?

HHI 1.4 mil. Mclean.

Bought 9mm handgun in March. Locked in safe.

It seems that police won’t be defending us from robbers or looters seeing the videos out there. Need to defend my family if needed.

Hope to never have to use it, but if someone breaks in, Better to have it than not.

After seeing all the violence out there and robberies, looting, assault since June, feel even better about having one.

My entire neighborhood is armed. I only have one (Glock) but many in my hood had several pistols and rifles. Suburban area, good number of ex-military. Also equal opportunity: the Muslims, Christians, Jews, and agnostics all have them, as do the whites, Asians, Latinos, and blacks. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. We are the true America (a diverse mix of 2nd amendment and Bill of Rights supporting folks).

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Anonymous wrote:What sort of training are you doing to justify that arsenal?

And is this sort of mental health problems (paranoia, irrationality) a new thing or have you struggled with these problems before?

Arsenal? Uh huh. Sure.

OP must not have family in PA. Everyone I know outside of the big cities have lots and lots of guns and have for generations. And I have the impression real gun enthusiasts have closed to hundreds of guns not two or three.

45. Glock I’m combination safe unloaded. 3 kids. North Arlington

I’m from the south so consider guns just another tool (it’s far more likely my kids will kill someone with a car than a gun. So I want them trained to use both guns and cars safely.

I am as liberal as them come and think guns should be highly regulated and registered, but having lived through hurricanes and such sometimes the police will not be able to answer when the stuff hits the fan. It’s just a form of insurance.