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Reply to
Larry W
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If you're protecting your home with a firearm you're in the wrong neighborhood.

Unlocked guns have no place around children.

Jim

Reply to
JimT

You crack me up, laughing. I'm the owner of all my guns -- in "active possession". Locks and safes do not make a gun any safer.

Build more prisons -- but NIMBY ism won't help either.

I will agree that gun stores should have trigger locks on guns, just so no numbskull places a round in the chamber and goes all postal.

Since age nine and given guns and knives at age sixteen for my birthday, nobody has ever been harmed.

Heck I sleep with a gun and it has never harmed anyone!

Reply to
Oren

Too late.

That wasn't the point. In any case, Children can be taught better.

Reply to
krw

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Jim

Reply to
JimT

My motto: _If it ain't documented -- it didn't happen._

Reply to
Oren

So some squint decides to leave LA, drive to Vegas, conduct a home invasion, maybe I should move? Don't think so!

Absolutely wrong. Children can be trained just like I was.

Reply to
Oren

Thanks.

It's 4x8 sheets. They were added 25 years ago to cover the gable area of the back of a concrete garage. I thought it was built in the 1940s, but when I got a ladder to check for damage inside, I found knob & tube wiring!

The hole is about 2 feet below a 1-foot overhang. The first concern I see is to keep carpenter bees away from the boards behind it.

When I probed the hole with a screwdriver, I heard the bullet drop to a ledge a foot below the hole. Perhaps it's better not to remove the Masonite so that I'll always know where the bullet is, in case someday I need to demonstrate that the incident occurred.

How about starting by gluing a slat of wood behind the hole? I could cut it so it just fits through and knot a string through a hole in the middle to hold it in place while the adhesive sets.

What kind of adhesive would you recommend? Lately I've been impressed with GE Silicone II caulk, but I haven't tried it to stick wood to the back side of Masonite.

Would acrylic latex caulk made a good filler?

I've got shellac-based sealer. Would that prime as well as oil-based primer?

Reply to
J Burns

Women are more fun, and keep you warmer in winter.

Reply to
aemeijers

But women get hotter when they know there is a big caliber gun next to them. Makes 'em wanna kick the covers off, it gets so hot. The smell of gun oil (Men's Discount Cologne) has some interesting effects on them.

Reply to
Oren

File a police re[port and an insurance claim before doing anything else. Then let your insurance company contact their insurance company for repiars. KEEP A COMPLETE PAPER TRAIL OF EVERYTHING!!!!

reply: The discharge of a firearm into a structure REQUIRES the filing of a report. If the structure was occupied, the seriousness increases. I am surprised that no one has asked about the police or insurance report yet. How long ago was this? Were the police called? Did the person whose house was damaged get the name of the other party's insurance company?

Steve

Reply to
Steve B

Yeah, a trigger lock or a gun in the safe will do a *lot* of good during a home invasion. ...almost as much good as the police.

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Huh? Why do you need a gun to protect yourself in your own home? Why can't you use a baseball bat, iron pipe, 2x 4.

If somebody needs a loaded gun to protect themselves in their own home they are most certainly living in a bad town or neighbourhood and they have done something in their life, drugs, dropped out of high school, bad debts, criminal themselves etc to be living in that part of town.

Reply to
The Henchman

Home alone, the nine-year-old next door discharged his father's deer rifle in the house. The bullet went through the wall of the house and the Masonite siding of my garage. A plank a couple of inches behind the Masonite stopped it.

Is it better to repair or replace the Masonite?

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I'd be more worried about the attempted manslaughter charges...

Reply to
The Henchman

  1. Squints, mopes, goblins, 'roided-up primates, and other assorted do-bads are not known for their intellectual acumen; they make mistakes. Often one of their mistakes results in them choosing the wrong house.
  2. Children can be taught proper firearm handling, same as they can be taught not to play in the street or put toads down their little sister's dress. There are more than a few cases on record where a child wasted a slope that was bothering his parents.
Reply to
HeyBub

Accidents happen. Sometimes with regrettable results. I, however, am willing to accept the unfortunate cost of these accidents as the price one must pay for access to a useful tool. The same attitude can be said of power tools, swimming pools, and other common items.

  • "911 - Dial-A-Prayer"
  • "I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop"
  • "I carry a .45 because they don't make a .46"
  • "I carry a gun for exactly the same reasons a cop does: protection for himself and others"
Reply to
HeyBub

Umm, with a bat, a pipe or a 2x4 you have to stand real close and not miss the target?

I prefer distance as it gives an advantageous space. I've never read any reports where bad guys, willfully wanting to harm on an innocent family could catch bullets in their teeth.

Reply to
Oren

Umm, with a bat, a pipe or a 2x4 you have to stand real close and not miss the target?

I prefer distance as it gives an advantageous space. I've never read any reports where bad guys, willfully wanting to harm on an innocent family could catch bullets in their teeth.

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If you are living in a house where bad guys, willfully wanting to harm on an innocent family, then you are living in in the wrong part of town and you have probably done a few wrong things yourself to end up in that sitution.

Sensible and reasonable people do not live in houses that need to be protected by firearms...

Reply to
The Henchman

If you find a perfect neighborhood, don't move in as it won't be perfect anymore. Same as if you find a perfect church.. don't join it as it won't be perfect anymore.

Reasonable and prudent people protect their homes by any means necessary. That includes biting off fingers of the do-bad's if called for.

Smart people keep guns and draw them to bear when needed. I prefer not getting real close, unless I have too.

Example: My neighbor and I have a pack. If you hear gun fire, that may mean the bad guy jumped the fence and is in your yard.

Solution: shoot the bastard. The reason I say this is because we would get tired fighting him at our age. Brass knuckles are illegal here. Not so for guns.

Reply to
Oren

Easy to say if you have the cash to move. Not everyone does. And especially for older folks that have lived in the same house 50 years or so (while the neighborhood went to hell around them), they may be too attached to the place to move, even though it would be the prudent thing to do. (Or the major investment of their life is now worth a fraction of what they have in it, and moving would mean moving someplace worse.) I left one apartment complex because I was tired of seeing cop cars every damn night, but I was fortunate enough to have a job that paid well enough to do so. It was a decent place when I moved in, but then the owners got greedy and started taking section 8 tenants. Sadly, a significant fraction of folks in that program do make poor life choices, and some of the single mothers in the program seem to have poor taste in men that they let move in with them.

Reply to
aemeijers

I was brought up around guns. My father was a ex-marine and a state and city cop. I damn near shot my friend's head off in the 5th grade. Shit happens.

We teach our kids all types of crap but they are "kids".

Jim

Reply to
JimT

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