Home protection package

[lemaymiami]

In and out of uniform, over a 22 year career in police work I had occasion to point a sidearm at quite a few folks when necessary... Ordinary types paid attention - street rats might pay attention but too many of the ones I ran into paid little, if any, attention to a handgun pointed their way (it was a different story when I had a shotgun in hand - but that's another story...). On those same scenes though if one of our female officers pointed a gun at them - the bad guy not only paid attention but usually was downright terrified... since in the world they come from a woman with a gun -is probably going to use it... At least that's what I actually saw on more than one occasion....

I'm no gunfighter - in 22 years I fired only one shot (then spent six months in and out of court until it was ruled justified... and it took a few years before I got myself sorted out over it...). My sympathies to those folks in Missouri - they're between a rock and a hard place with a really nice house and no one in authority willing to defend them locally.... Very bad situation and I'm betting they'll not be able to defend it a second time...

[vintage hunter]

I reckon if I absolutely had to choose just one gun for HD it would be a shotgun. Probably because that's what I had coming up and have more time behind the trigger that anything else, that and an semi auto .22 rifle.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Another personal defense strategy in the current environment might be to simply hurl a history book at the approaching hoard. No doubt the vast majority would flee in horror.

[old tanker]

It's time to lay in the Final Protective Fire Lines and record them on the range card.

[DaveHH]

When you really think about it an '03 and one of those 5 foot long bayonets would really deter that mob of fools. During the Korean war an army Captain cleared off a mountain top of Chinese just by saying "Fix bayonets" The bayonet was feared by everyone from the revolutionary war to WW2. When they went to a little baby knife and called it a bayonet, nobody cared. In the war, I used mine to open cases of Crats. Those big honking blades on a 10lb wood and steel club, gets their attention.

I don't think that anyone was trying to belittle or make fun of the couple. I've never seen anything like what we are living in in 75 years. I received a letter from the CEO of my credit union the other day. He was apologizing for having "White Privilege" . Ask a plumber in Lodi if he has white privilege. Cities kicking the police out of town, shopping malls being looted and then burned down just for fun. I think that if this keeps up the "Running Dogs" are going to stop it themselves. Nobody else seems to care.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Prayers and preparation in equal measures.

[tenOC]

I don't think that anyone was trying to belittle or make fun of the couple. I've never seen anything like what we are living in in 75 years. I received a letter from the CEO of my credit union the other day. He was apologizing for having "White Privilege" . Ask a plumber in Lodi if he has white privilege. Cities kicking the police out of town, shopping malls being looted and then burned down just for fun. I think that if this keeps up the "Running Dogs" are going to stop it themselves. Nobody else seems to care.

Many Americans from the turn of the century helped build America at a time when they couldn't afford shoes. Other groups of near peasants didn't come here until the early 1900s and were hated by some groups already in America (but more importantly were hated by old world grudges that came with them to America). My point is the people who built the nation were poor and only did it with determination, at least until the 1950s. The majority of groups were not working together as a cohesive unit with one common purpose. They each had a personal interest of advancement and that benefited the collective. Now since WWII the rest of the world was destroyed and looted, at which time the USA took advantage of the situation to increase our standing. Now that there's no domestic production, advancements were done with debt. We're at the end of that cycle now and some of the groups seek to scapegoat and take advantage through plunder. America will quite possibly remind you of 1920s Germany before it's done.

[Surpmil]

America will quite possibly remind you of 1920s Germany before it's done.

It already does, but we haven't quite reached 1929 yet.

[tenOC]

When citizens are selling their children to pay foreigners for a week or month of survival, it'll look like that. Hopefully we don't experience a hyper-inflation like that.

[Daan Kemp]

I believe SWMBO will have some words about the burn and scratch marks on her floor from the Vickers tripod feet and hot cases.