Open carry / firearm handy

[k0ua]

Interesting thread. Many different points of view. I do believe those that havent been raise around firears have a very narrow view of the subject. When you think about it, if you have lived for years and have never needed a gun, why would yo feel the need to be prepared. Times change folks. I have lived in a rural, small town area all my life. Never lock the doors and knew everybody I met. Present day, we have a new casino, read about new meth heads getting caught everyday. People homes getting broke into, people getting shot over drug deals, etc, etc. Its not the same place I grew up in. My brother lives next door, he has had stuff stolen out of his barn, even stole a golf cart, just drove it off.

Close friend told me of something that happend to him just last week. 10:30 at night, car stops at the end of his drive way and turns off the lights. He picks up his hand gun and slips out the side door and walks around to the front porch. One guy from the car was on the front porch and one had hidden in the bushes. He yells out at the guy on the porch and ask what he wants. Guy claims he was wanting to buy a cow. Right, at 10:30 at night, you drive up in someones yard and ask to buy a cow. My friend tells him no cows for sale and for him and his friend hid in the bushes, it would be best if they get in their car and drive off. Now ask yourself, do you believe they where wanting to buy a cow, or did they have something else in mind. Do you think they would have left as easy, if the homeowner hadnt been holding a gun. Now if your niave enought to think those guys where really wanting to buy a cow, then stay away from guns, your not responsible enough to own one.

That was what is know in the industry as a "home invasion robbery". You open the door and they are in the house. Your friend was prepared. It many never happen again in his lifetime, or they could be back tonite all "pissed off" with 2 more guys with guns. When they came to our door about 40 years ago, it was "do you have any goats for sale?" My brothers answer was "no but I have some hot lead for sale" This was around midnight or later. They left rather quickly. I had a "goblin" at my door about 2 years ago that had "something I want to show you" and reached around behind him. He got to look at my 9mm. Him and his two twenty something friends in their old suburban, which he had left his door open on and the engine running. I called the sheriff after they exited quickly. He said they had other reports. I think they were just looking for someone easy, like some old person. I AM an old person, but I still have a few teeth left. There are people in this world bold enough to rob or hurt or even kill you for what you got. Addiction will make people do some mighty mean things. And we sure have plenty of it in our area.

 

[Midniteoyl]

So, when I first moved here about 13yrs ago, scrap was at an all time high and scrappers where known to hit homes while people were at work and take anything not nailed down, and many things that were. One day not long after moving in, I noticed out the window a red pickup pull up, then back up behind the pine trees lining my drive. This was ~1:30pm and I was not expecting anyone, and we had also been having problems with 'friends of the previous owner' just showing up and walking the property, so I grabbed my P89 and headed out. Found 2 guys starting to walk towards the back and hollered at them. Startled, they turn and one goes "Hey, just wondering if you had any scrap to get rid off?" I tell them no. Guy looks at my old tractors (pair of 8Ns) that were left here and goes," Are you sure?" "Yep, pretty sure" as I gesture for them to leave. Looking around he starts to walk towards me, hands going behind his back. He starts saying, "Look, all we're doing is .." and thats as far as I let him go. I pulled the P89, point it towards the ground but still in his direction, and say "So, how much does lead go for?" His hands go up, his friend starts the truck, and they start to back out.. Only to be stopped by my wife who, unknown to any of us, had circled around behind them with the 870 :thumbsup:. She racks the slide and goes "Now, tell everyone that this is our place now, [Previous owner] does NOT live here, and nothing here is for sale or for scrap!"

Haven't had an uninvited guest here for 13yrs now

 

[bindian]

Now if your niave enought to think those guys where really wanting to buy a cow, then stay away from guns, your not responsible enough to own one.

In the words of Walter Brennan on "The Real McCoys" tv show...........No brag, just fact.
hugs, Brandi

 

[jimmysisson]

I always thought that quote was from Judge Roy Bean. So I looked it up and its from The Guns of Will Sonnett. All Walter Brennan, at least!
Jim

 

[17 Oaks]

Interesting thread. Many different points of view. I do believe those that havent been raise around firears have a very narrow view of the subject. When you think about it, if you have lived for years and have never needed a gun, why would yo feel the need to be prepared. Times change folks. I have lived in a rural, small town area all my life. Never lock the doors and knew everybody I met. Present day, we have a new casino, read about new meth heads getting caught everyday. People homes getting broke into, people getting shot over drug deals, etc, etc. Its not the same place I grew up in. My brother lives next door, he has had stuff stolen out of his barn, even stole a golf cart, just drove it off.

Close friend told me of something that happend to him just last week. 10:30 at night, car stops at the end of his drive way and turns off the lights. He picks up his hand gun and slips out the side door and walks around to the front porch. One guy from the car was on the front porch and one had hidden in the bushes. He yells out at the guy on the porch and ask what he wants. Guy claims he was wanting to buy a cow. Right, at 10:30 at night, you drive up in someones yard and ask to buy a cow. My friend tells him no cows for sale and for him and his friend hid in the bushes, it would be best if they get in their car and drive off. Now ask yourself, do you believe they where wanting to buy a cow, or did they have something else in mind. Do you think they would have left as easy, if the homeowner hadnt been holding a gun. Now if your niave enought to think those guys where really wanting to buy a cow, then stay away from guns, your not responsible enough to own one.

Over 70 years of living and nearly 60 years of home/car ownership and I have never needed a fire extinguisher. Heck, not even sure why I own one that is in the kitchen, on each floor of the home and out on the Patio close to the BBQ.

 

[ovrszd]

Over 70 years of living and nearly 60 years of home/car ownership and I have never needed a fire extinguisher. Heck, not even sure why I own one that is in the kitchen, on each floor of the home and out on the Patio close to the BBQ.

I had three in my shop when it burned to the ground.

 

[ovrszd]

Over 70 years of living and nearly 60 years of home/car ownership and I have never needed a fire extinguisher. Heck, not even sure why I own one that is in the kitchen, on each floor of the home and out on the Patio close to the BBQ.

I had three in my shop when it burned to the ground.

 

[dieselcrawler]

Ahhhhhhhhh..... The double post gremlin is back!

 

[Midniteoyl]

Ahhhh.. Run away!

 

[gwstang]

Where I live I have no worries...or words to that effect:

She didn't either!

July 1, 2015: 32-year-old Kathryn [Kate] Steinle was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant as her father watched. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez fired a stolen .40 caliber handgun on Pier 14 in the Embarcadero district in San Francisco, California.


I think how many times I have dined in the Embarcadero district and on that very pier that Kate was murdered.




I don't always carry, but when I do, I carry heavy: View attachment 515488

Did anyone ever figure out why the guy fired at her?