Home Defense Opinions
POSTED BY: AnthonyT
UPDATED: Friday, October 24, 2025 16:55
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Live in a crappy house with a crappy car in a good neighborhood and then all you have to worry about protecting yourself from is the FEDs. Only an idiot will try to rob the poorest looking house on the block.
As far as guns go, you all probably know I'm an advocate for guns rights, but I don't own one personally, so I can't say. I've been meaning to get around to getting one, but I've got a lot of research to do and then I gotta get out to the range too. I've actually never fired anything short of a pellet gun before.
Nice thread though. I like to read Browncoat's opinions on this.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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I hafta agree with a lot of whatGeezer wrote.
I remmeber hearing about a gun group ( not the NRA, but somebody similar.) counseling home owners here in Los Angeles county on this subject. Their main point was, " No matter what happens, if you shoot a burglar, even inside your own house, expect to have your weapon permanently confiscated, and expect to go to jail that night. If you kill him, expect to be charged with homicide. This is how the LA County DA's office handles it. "
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Yeah... that's a load of crap and an infringement of our Constitutional rights. Not to mention one of the leading reasons that the crime rate is so high in this country, which in turn lends to the willingness of the taxpayers to pay even more of their salaries to subsidize a larger police force, who most of the time are busy doing nothing but harassing the very citizens paying their salaries by pulling them over for misc trivial bullshit so they can meet their quotas to justify their own jobs and pay. It's a sad, sad circle.
If you are in my house and you don't belong there, I have every right to shoot your ass dead if it means the welfare of myself or my family as opposed to your own. Period. If I ever go to jail for that, then go ahead and make me a martyr. "A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
If not, what's your preferred defense tool?
Forgot this before.
Browning Hi-Power in 9MM. I've had this pistol for over 30 years, put tens of thousands of rounds through it, and it's never failed to fire - not once.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Quote:
Originally posted by Geezer:Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
If not, what's your preferred defense tool?
Forgot this before.
Browning Hi-Power in 9MM. I've had this pistol for over 30 years,
OH, my, the dinosaur of the nines. Classic weapon.
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Heh.
I like dinosaurs, myself.
All the weapons I own... I think all of them have a design that is over 50 years old.
My most modern weapon is a Makarov semiauto from (if I recall) Bulgaria.
Tied is my SKS rifle from (if I recall) Yugoslavia.
Then my Gaucho single-action revolver from Taurus, who manufactures in Brazil if I recall.
Then my new double-barreled side-by-side external hammer shotgun from Interstate Arms, who imports it from China.
Dinosaur designs have character.
And now that I look at the list... I see I don't have a single firearm made in the USA. Does that make me a
communist? ;-)
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Oh! How could I forget! My one American weapon!
First handgun I ever bought... for 100 bucks.
A single-action .22 caliber revolver from Heritage Manufacturing! They are based in Opa Locka, Florida. (again, if I recall correctly.)
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Quote:Yes. Yes, it does.
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
And now that I look at the list... I see I don't have a single firearm made in the USA. Does that make me a communist? ;-)
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Since I got them all not only because they were 'classic' designs, but also because they were cheap as dirt, can I also be capitalist?
Capitalist Communist?
Is there a such thing? ;-)
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Well judging by American military standard issue it may make you someone who wants quality merchandise...
M16, Worst. Assualt Rifle. Ever.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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