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Stealing a Stolen Post - What Would You Do
From the Health and Fitness Board by way of ML...
Have you ever thought about what you would do if someone broke into your house in the middle of the night?
As an aside - I can't believe how many gun-owners responded. Not to be Pollyanna-ish, but the fact that so many of those people have litle kids makes me queasy. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen a gun irl...
http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/40477082.aspx
Re: Stealing a Stolen Post - What Would You Do
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I mean, I wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone who had broken into my house in the middle of the night. I don't care if he intended to kill me or just steal my aunt clara's pearls. You scared the f*ck out of me and for that you deserve to die.
Having said that, I don't like, own weapons or anything, so I guess I'd try to keep my wits about me, grab the baby and try to run downstairs and out the door. If I was trapped upstairs where all of the bedrooms are, I guess I'd either lock myself in the bathroom or go onto the balcony and try to either scream my head off or else - what?? - jump?? With a toddler and an infant that doesn't seem like a very good plan...
I get irrationally irritated at "what body part would you shoot" posts.
I don't keep a gun in my home. I won't have a gun. More power to those who do if it makes them feel safer but I just don't believe it does. I can't find any statistics on the # of people who save themselves from crazed killers in the middle of the night by shooting them with the gun they keep in the nightstand and the bullets they keep locked separately in the bureau. Perhaps I'm missing something. But that just doesn't happen around here.
I will say that books like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo make me realize how not fight ready I am. And after reading the first two I start thinking of "weapons" I could kill criminals with. "First, i'd windex him in the eyes! Then I'd use my electric toothbrush in his ear. Then I'd kick him in the balls annnnnd...so on."
We have a gun in the nightstand, but I have no clue how to load it or use the gun lock. And come to think of it, there's no ammo in the house either.
Anyway I would grab the gun so the stone cold killa couldn't use it on me and exit as quietly as possible through the porch doors. If H was gone, the only key to that door would be in the laundry room so I would probably lock myself in the bathroom and try to squeeze my ass through the window.
If they came in my bedroom I would play dead and hope the intruder was actually a bear.
The nerve!
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I grew up with guns in the house. My father always had one, so it wasn't a novelty. We learned what it was, why it was dangerous, etc. I could shoot by the time I was 6. However, his gun was never left to where we could get it. I only get squeamsh when people have guns in the house with small children if they are not responsible about it.
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
This is how I feel. Brett just cannot wrap his head around the fact that I wouldn't kill someone who came into our house. But I just don't think I could do it.
Guns are really the only "big" issue where we have extremely different views.
The nerve!
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first i'd have to wake Andy up. He'd sleep through the whole thing and I need to use him as a human shield while I go save my baby.
I can't imagine taking someone's life either. If push came to shove, maybe? But it's honestly too hard for me to wrap my brain around the scenario to decide whether I could do it or not.
I do think if I had a gun in the house, it would be the first thing I went for if I was scared. THAT scares me more than anything and is why I wouldn't have a gun. I'd be too scared that I'd immediately escalate things by grabbing my gun and shooting rather than yelling, "Get out of my house!" and calling the police.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Really? All the doors in our house except for the closets have locks. And I think that's been the case for every house I've lived in.
But a door knob lock isn't going to stop an intruder intent on murgling.
The nerve!
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Our doors have locks. Even Will's room. Luckily Lorne figured out that you can unlock them with a paperclip, but this was after the time Will locked himself in the bathroom for 15 minutes and laughed while I tried to talk him into opening the door.
I haven't ever thought about someone coming into my home with the intent of killing me. I mean, why would they want to? I'd happily let them take my TV if it meant they didn't want to hurt me. We aren't gun people. I don't mind the idea of shooting one in a range, but the idea of keeping one in my home with the thought that I'd actually use it on an intruder...no. I can't imagine. A couple years ago someone in my complex was beaten and raped though, so I've thought about that. I've taken self defense and took kung fu for a little while, and I've gotten out of bad situations before, but those weren't ever in my home. I don't ever leave the door unlocked.
Or a little sister who wants to read your diary.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
We'll never have a gun in our home. A classmate of mine accidentally killed another classmate in 5th grade with an unsecured firearm in the home. If you are properly storing a firearm, I don't see how it's going to help you in an emergency intruder situation.
I'll take my chances improvising a weapon in the highly unlikely situation that someone breaks into my home while I'm there and intends to do me or my family harm. I'll go MacGruber on their asss.
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I've seen enough cops to know that if someone is breaking into my house, in 9 out of 10 cases, they are looking for cash for drugs. They don't come in w/ the intention of killing me and I'm sure as sh*t not taking someone's life over $50 in a piggy bank and a TV.
Yeah mulva, I've always thought that too. If they want my TV< they can have my TV. Frankly I own nothing so valuable in my home that it can't be replaced through insurance etc...
Lindsay do you ever see how many "i'm jumpy because my husband is out of town so I put his loaded gun on my nightstand tonight and the baby is sleeping with me ::giggle::" posts there are on the bump? I swear there is one a week. Where do these people live that they think at a moment's notice someone is going to be shot coming through their bedroom window while their husband is out late?
So you're jumpy and freaked out with a loaded gun on your nightstand and your baby 3 feet from your bed.
Also, I love my husband dearly but I don't think he'd be any great protection. Maybe as a human shield. Maybe. But he's also jumpy and very every man for himself. I'm fairly sure he'd not be any great help so I don't freak out when he's out of my house for the night.
We will never have a gun in our home. No way could I live with myself if I shot an intruder who wanted my HDTV. I've got homeowners' insurance and a telephone.
If there were a rash of crime in the area maybe I'd want a baseball bat handy, but really, I know Mike and I would just cower in the bedroom with the kids if someone invaded our home.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I wish we all could. "hide yo' wives b/c they rapin' everyone out here"
i thought someone was breaking into my bedroom when i was in high school. so i grabbed my weapon and hid under my desk, where i fell asleep.
my mom discovered me in the morning still holding my weapon- a can of aqua net and a lighter. she almost got a beehive hairdo, so i swore to never use a weapon again.
A few years ago my friend Gabby had just moved in with her BF (now H), who lived in a pretty crappy part of the city. It was her first weekend alone in his house, and she thought she heard someone trying to break into the house. She panicked and started looking around for a weapon. What she found was a can of bear mace that her BF had from a trip he had taken to Alaska the previous summer. Gabby did not know how to use bear mace, and she wanted to make sure that she was prepared when the evil burglars came to murder her, so she decided to test it out by spraying it in the sink. Ya. I'm not sure if you're familiar with bear mace or how it works, but the idea is that it's meant to be used in an open space from very far away. So basically, she maced herself. She had to go spend the rest of the night at our other friends house, so that her house could air out. High-larious!
My action plan for a break-in is to press the panic button on my house alarm, and hide in the bathroom.
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Lucky for me, I've got a very loud, scary sounding dog who barks when she hears anyone around our house. Hopefully that would scare away an intruder. I also don't understand why people (with kids!!!) keep loaded guns in the nightstand. I can't be the only person who's read stories of people accidentally shooting their child, whom they mistakenly thought was an intruder. Or, what about the example one of these ladies brought up of the 12 yo autistic boy who broke into someone's home? I don't think I want that death on my karmic report card.