Toemeesleather wrote:Crime nor home invasion was ever considered by the authors of the Bill or Rights.
Home invasion by a man in a red coat with brass buttons
if once in your entire life you are in a position to use a gun as a defensive weapon, then its enough to justify it
worse, if once in your life you *needed* a gun in a defensive position and didn't have it, then you become a statistic
I'm personally not one of these people that think they need to carry a gun for protection, nor am I comfortable with the idea that the man sitting next to me in a theater, bar, grocery store or restaurant has a gun on him and a belief that in an environment he needs to use it.
but I absolutely have a gun easily accessible in my home - what it is doesn't matter. It may rust and never see light before I die, but because I *might* need it, is reason enough.
That rationale has nothing to do with whether someone else owning a gun and intends to use it against me. Its not about matching firepower, its about equalizing a threat. As long as there are people in the United States who are capable and determined to come into someone's home, then I am obligated to own a firearm for my personal protection as my family.
The logic to take that gun away from me as a law abiding citizen while doing nothing to eliminate the threat of people is the very reason it will never happen. It increases my chances of facing an adversary who is stronger and more capable of inflicting harm on me.
I can tell you that on 3 occasions my mother had her home invaded in a period of about 2 years. Twice by 2 young men addicted to opioids and saw them as an easy mark. They didn't intend violence, they came in the home, uninvited with some made up excuse, and while one talked to them, another went to the bathroom, went thru their medicine cabinet and bedroom drawers. After the second time it happened, they had to sit in the living room with a gun next to them. The reason it stopped is because one of the men died of an overdose and the other went to prison because he did the home invasion trick on someone else and lifted some rings and what not while he was there.
The 3rd home invasion was while my brother was home. He was riding his motorcycle around my grandfathers old property and stopped at a creek we used to play at as kids. A woman came out and started ranting at him. He started his bike up and went home. She followed him and came into my mother's home still ranting and accusing him of spying on here. Turns out she had a 1/2 acre of pot growing next to the creek and believed him to either be police or someone that was going to narc on her. Who knows what she and the man she was growing it with was capable of doing if they thought we were a threat to them just for stopping at a creek we played at as kids.
By definition this isn't the classic home invasion but these are people who came into the home of my mother who was her early 70's at the time without any idea of what they were capable of doing. She ended up selling the home my father built by hand and raised 3 kids in because she knew she was either going to get robbed or have to shoot someone.
I like the stinky pinky but only up to the first knuckle, I do not want a GD thumb up there--I've told her multiple times and I always catch her when she tries to pull a fast one---it's my butthole for Chrissakes I'm gonna know--so cut out the BS.
