You know what one thought *hasn't* passed my mind throughout this entire crisis?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

"I need a gun now."

Not once have I thought I desperately need to go out and buy a gun.

Even with all the worse case scenarios that have been playing constantly in my head, not once have I felt compelled to become a gun owner. No desire whatsoever.

Perhaps there is something wrong with me. Or maybe not. But I just don't feel any such urge.

And yes I do have a family who I want to protect. And if God forbid we are talking about a situation with any sort of civil unrest or looting...but still.

I have a baseball bat I keep under my bed in the seemingly unimaginable case of home intruders. And honestly, that's still enough for me.

[katusha]

1. oh LOL i thought it was gonna be about John Bolton's book n/t

[Sherman A1]

2. I picked up 4 cans of

Wasp and Hornet Spray to have around the house just in case.

[leftieNanner]

3. Ooh! Good idea! nt

[Doreen]

4. I have several cans of flea spray.

[2naSalit]

8. I keep a can pf bear spray by the door.

I have a couple guns but they are in storage and neither are breech-loaders so they work like a baseball bat with corners.

[underpants]

5. Something that just popped into my mind

[ragemage]

6. Exactly...

What always seems so annoying is that the gun crowd always talks about keeping a weapon for self defense...ok, so if I purchase a weapon, I would have to keep it loaded and close to me in bed (under my pillow? in the night stand?) to be of any use in the case of a home intruder. The intruder is not going to patiently wait while I go to the gun safe, unlock it, load the weapon, and then proceed.
And seriously, you are really going to use an AR-15 style weapon for home defense? Really? Hope you have good trigger control and don't fire through the walls into your kid's bedroom or out the window into your neighbor's house.

Baseball bat, bear spray, hornet spray...if you really want to go Rambo get a machete or big hunting knife.
And get yourself a powerful flashlight to blind the intruder as they are coming at you...nothing says hello like a 1000 lumen beam of light into your eyeballs in darkness.

[Poeraria]

7. Actually, I have considered getting a single or double barreled shotgun.

Girlfriend and I have a small "hobby farm" with garden and chickens (for eggs, not meat). One way we've been wasting away the time is by setting up and monitoring trail cameras around the 3 acres (north Georgia mountains). In only a few days we have recorded bobcat, fox, oppossum, all of which are dangerous to chickens (like her dad says, "Everythning loves to eatt chicken".) (We've recorded loads of deer and taken a cast of a bear print last year).

We lost two hens to a opossum over Christmas and they don't eat the birds, they mutilate and torture them. What we found of our girls was bloody and violent, but should I have been able to find them before they passed (excruciatingly), I would have wanted a way to end it for them, or could have intervened if I had known about the attack.

Not for any Rambo, prepper scenario, but when you're in the sticks and are charged with caring for and protecting animals, it's a bit of a responsibility. Trigger lock, locked closet, store ammo away from the weapon, but it's not a bad idea in the country to have a gun as a tool.

[abqtommy]

9. Earlier in my life I owned guns and I'm not disappointed that I got rid of them. But I think we

all need to embrace the uncomfortable reality we're facing and if someone doesn't want to own a gun
then I'm ok with that. I do think it would do everybody good to take a firearms use/safety course since
being prepared is better than not being prepared.

[doc03]

10. I have plenty guns and ammo don't see any need

for more. Someone will have to pry my toilet paper from my cold dead hands.

[manhattan123]

11. My one thought that has never passed through is...

"Wow, Trump is really doing a good job."

[panader0]

12. No guns in my house.

I have a Louisville Slugger by the door, but it's for the endless stream of javelina
that seem to visit every night and daytimes too. They can be quite nasty.
I have nothing of real value except some guitars. Nothing I would kill or be
killed over. I've lived here many years, close to the border, and have never
feared for my welfare. Pan y paz para la gente.

[Amishman]

13. I be curious if this were first time buyers or the same rednecks buying their 20th

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Far more likely the latter. nt

[GulfCoast66]

15. As a hunter I have several. All for specific types of hunting. No AR type shit.

They remain locked and unloaded and until this thread have not given them any thought. It’s 6 months till hunting season. We enjoy wild game.

I’m not shooting a fellow human for toilet paper, frozen venison, my truck or any material item.

The wife and her safety is the only thing that would push me to use violence.