Question, who here carries at home?

[Treo]

I keep reading news stories in which the home owner is able to run to where ever his/her/their/its gun is and defend themselves against the bad guy. I don't understand that mindset, when I get dressed in the morning I put my gun on when I go to sleep at night I put it on the nightstand next to my bed(no kids at home). It seems pointless to me to carry a gun only sometimes, and I wondered who here agrees .

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Not me ,How about just in a dangerous places ,like a war zones.

[Fresh_Start]

2. I did a lot of research before I bought my home

I don't need to be armed at home

[EmeraldCityGrl]

3. I carry the laundry up from the basement.

:evilgrin:

[RoccoR5955]

4. I have 2 Louisville Sluggers.

Lil' Slugger, by the bed, and big slugger by the door. I have never had to use them, but wouldn't hesitate to. I have never been of the school of thought that a gun will protect you. A bat, on the other hand, can be used as a defensive as well as offensive weapon. I grew up in NYC, where you can't legally have a gun, so people have alternatives. Sluggers were my alternative, and I guess that even though I moved out of NYC almost 30 years ago, you can't take the city out of me.

Oh, and when I lived in the city, I never had the need to use them either.

[Aragorn]

7. 9 iron and pitching wedge

That's what I gave my girls for their college apartment. As you say, defensive too. No problem carrying either - 1 is in law school and 1 in med school. :)

That reminds me. I once got ID'd by a rural TX cop as being a doctor without showing any ID. My passenger said "He must have seen your bag." My golf bag was in the back seat.

[tucsonlib]

5. If You Feel It Necessary To Carry When You're Home....

..then your house isn't really "home". Sell it, and find yourself a home.

[orpupilofnature57]

6. K&R!!!!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. I disagree, but am in an unusual position

I live out in the twigs (that is well past the sticks) on significant acreage backed up on BLM land.. Out here, guns are tools and the loons are the ones who come out here without them, especially in snake season. Its not the wild west, we don't shoot at each other, but they are a necessity. Recently a neighbor had one of their dogs bit by a rattlesnake, inside their garage. The dog survived (it wasn't a Mohave Green) the snake was dispatched with a 44.mag shot shell by one of their daughters.

Because we are out in the twigs, we are notionally 30 minutes response time from the nearest cop shop (county sheriff in our case). If there is a problem, be it an animal or a person we are on our own. I haven't had much in the way of people problems since I put up the mother of all security gates and the local MC shops quit telling people that my property was BLM land.

Depending on what is going on, I have a 44.magnum with a selection of different cartridges types handy. I have a scabbard for a lever action on the ATV. So yes I carry at home outside of my domicile, but its clearly an exceptional situation.

I do have a combat firearms as well (scoped mini-14 and semi auto handguns) but they are locked up.

[k agathon]

13. Have your rounded out your skills with

medical training. First Aid, First Responder, or something similar. How is your CPR certs? Do you have a major trauma kit or the first aid thing for scrapes and scratches? If you are 30 minutes from a police response your ambulance response isn't much better.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

16. I have most of that, but the real answer is not to be alone out here

I do love it out here though

[nevergiveup]

8. I still have the Red Ryder BB Gun I received for Christmas as a child.

It is the one and only gun I will ever own.

[rrneck]

15. Don't shoot your eye out. :) nt

[geckosfeet]

9. Locked up and stored until I go to the range.

[GreenStormCloud]

11. A home invasion can happen anywhere.

Our area is one of the safest suburban in the state, but only a few houses down from us a man & wife were killed by home invaders.

We don't carry inside the house. But we do have handguns in several positions about the house. We can get them very quickly if needed.

[Treo]

19. I've considered stashing guns

But just wearing one seems easier

[k agathon]

12. I do.

As a student of Gun-Do, if clothes are on the guns are on.

[Treo]

20. So say we all NT

[MichaelHarris]

14. I'm not sure

I've ever seen a more stupid thread.

[timeforpeace]

18. Dude, that's hilarious! I was wondering if it was just me.

[PavePusher]

21. I have.

The ones where you repeat the rest of your silly Brady agit-prop ad nauseum.

[spin]

17. My firearms are locked up but I can access them very quicky...

A 9mm revolver is in a gun box 2 feet from where I am typing. An unloaded side by side 12 gauge shotgun (a coach gun) is also within my reach. The ammo for the shotgun is locked in the same gun box as the revolver.

There's a .38+P revolver and a .357 revolver in separate safes in the bedroom. A loaded .45 auto and a .357 are in the safe in the hall closet. I usually carry a 4" fixed blade knife and a 4" folding knife. The fixed blade has a plain edge, the folder has a fully serrated edge. There is also an actual sword (not a cheap show replica) in my living room. The blade is 36" long.

I'm never very far from a weapon.

[AtheistCrusader]

22. Awfully specific questions there.

Suffice to say, anyone breaking into my home while I am home, is going to have a very. bad. day.

[Treo]

23. There was only one question in the whole post

"I wonder who here agrees?" But if you feel that your privacy is violated you don't have to participate .

[AtheistCrusader]

24. More.

Do you advertise your status as a gun owner.
Have you ever had a defensive display.
Guns and Alcohol.
Passive Non-compliance.
What's your plan.
etc.


Unusual compilation of information.

[Treo]

25. Actually I'm lazy

And I stole damn near every one of those titles from THR.

Is this the part where you call me a FREEPER?

[AtheistCrusader]

26. What is THR?

I'm not going to accuse you of anything. Just pointing out that some of the information you are asking for is of a sensitive nature, and people may not think of that before answering.

You're only SO anonymous online. There are ways to discover who people really are. The thieves you have to worry about, are the ones who know what they are doing. (I'm not accusing you of lining people up for theft, but there could be interested bystanders)

[GreenStormCloud]

28. THR is a gunnie board. The High Road.

www.thehighroad.com

It takes a rather sophisticated geek to find out a true identiy from a DU account. Violent criminals don't tend to be that smart.

[Euromutt]

27. I carry at home part of the time

I have separate carry and "first resort" HD guns, though they are, respectively, the compact and full-size versions of the same gun. I keep the carry piece on me when there's some likelihood of my son deciding on the spur of the moment to go roaming the neighborhood; there's a few too many idiots with mean dogs who let them run loose around here. But frankly, burglaries in general, and hot burglaries in particular are not something I'm overly nervous about, simply because I live in a neighborhood with one outlet and a sheriff's sub-station less than a mile away on the nearest arterial. This does not make for good getaway options. I read the police blotter in the local weekly, and almost nothing ever happens in my quadrant of town. Okay, they don't print everything, but when they're listing somebody's bicycle being stolen from outside a house on the east side of town, I doubt they're omitting to mention any burglaries on my side.

My HD gun lives in a quick access lock box bolted to my bed, with an extended mag and a weaponlight in place.

[Tim01]

29. It is hard enough to find my house on purpose, let alone on accident.

Badguys almost always go to a house on purpose, not because they stumbled across it. Still, my gun is always close by, just the way my house is laid out.

[Euromutt]

31. You raise a good point

A large number of home invasions, particularly the nastier ones, aren't random occurrences. A large number of houses that become the target of home invasions are ones of which the invaders believe--rightly or wrongly--that one or more of the occupants is involved in the illegal drugs trade and will have a stash of drugs and/or money, and possibly a firearm or two in the house.

So one important way to avoid home invasions is: don't deal drugs out of your home!

[Katya Mullethov]

30. You've heard of Skoal pocket ?

All my jeans have a bad case of KelTec pocket . I dont remove my wallet just because I am home , and the gun and the pocket knife are no different .

[jeepnstein]

32. Not me...

I'm not going to go around strapped 24/7, that's too much of a burden. I have a plan at home that is sufficient. If I were living in an area that demanded I go armed at all times, I'd be moving on.