Lets say you're keeping a gun at home for "protection." Then you have a break-in.

[Gomez163]

How do you get to it in time before the bad guy gets you??

Do you have it loaded on the dresser? What if you kid finds it?

Is it in a safe? How do you get to it before the bad guy gets you?

Must you always be on guard, sleeping in a chair with the gun at the ready?

And why are bad guys that interested in killing you?

How does this work with an AR-15? Do you have that leaning against your bedstand?

I want to know?

[Glassunion]

1. What if you don't have one for "protection". Then you have a break in.

Does the bad guy just get you?

[Gomez163]

2. Don't they usually just want your TV?

[Glassunion]

3. Then, in your rhetorical OP, why is the bad guy in your bedroom?

[Gomez163]

5. Im just working out the worst case scenario.

[Glassunion]

7. What's the worst case scenario?

Are they just nabbing the TV, or are they coming into the bedroom?

[Gomez163]

9. Nabbing the TV. But who actually has a loaded gun at the ready?

[Glassunion]

22. At the ready and quickly accesible are two different things.

But you could conceivably have one loaded, and ready inside of a nightstand safe.

This keeps it out of the hands of kids, yet is still accessible to the owner.

[Gomez163]

24. Do you practice? Drill?

[Glassunion]

29. I don't do anything. This entire conversation is rhetorical.

So I offered rhetoric.

But would one need to practice or drill taking something out of a box?

[Gomez163]

30. I think if a had a gun, I would want to have the drill down.

[Glassunion]

37. So be my gest.

I'm not stopping you.

[Gomez163]

39. If I feel the need to get protection, I'm getting a dog.

[Glassunion]

42. Sweet... They tend to be much smarter than a gun.

[ManiacJoe]

40. That is smart thinking.

[GummyBearz]

32. My dad always kept one in his night stand

We practiced with it around once a month, shooting targets outside of city limits. We disassembled it and cleaned it, reassembled it and put it back. He was a battle tested veteran from Vietnam, his respect for guns and what they can do, and how to safely handle them was pretty high. I'm glad he taught me those things. My gun is locked up in a closet in my parents house, my wife doesn't want it in our house. And I'm fine with that given we live in a freakin fortress of a gated building complex with guards 24/7. If we lived in a single family house, that gun would be in my night stand for sure.

[NoMoreRepugs]

31. Ever been in a really serious fistfight or adrenaline

Inducing situation??? Cops miss 90%+ when they fire (I believe I read).. aND they hAve some training..... but the average schmuck is going to Remerber his combination and turn into Jason Bourne? Give me a break.....

[Glassunion]

34. Not 100% but I think I've seen safes with no combination. Just finger prints.

I can unlock my phone at 3am, in the dark by using my thumb, I'm sure someone else could do the same with a box in their dresser.

[Gomez163]

35. I used to wrestle when I was younger. Long ago. I remember the adrenaline.

[Jerry442]

38. When you're in a house-a-fire emergency...

...you can, no shit, want to call 911 and for a moment, not remember the number.

Been there.

[Gomez163]

6. I didnt say he was in my bedroom. I said there was a break in.

What good is a gun going to be for me in that scenario? I'm not really quick draw McGraw.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

13. Thieves who want your TV don't break in when you're home

[uppityperson]

10. Of course. If you don't have a gun, your only other option is to cower.

[Gomez163]

12. I can do cower.

[Blanks]

45. Or hide. Either works for me. They can have the tv. Eom

[Dawgs]

14. Best video on the subject

[Gomez163]

17. heh

[NaturalHigh]

4. I would tell you...

but you just want someone to confiscate it anyway.

[Gomez163]

11. Do you have a quick response plan worked out?

[onehandle]

8. No matter the answers, you are many times more likely to use your gun on a family member at home...

...than in absolutely any other situation.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. Or yourself! n/t

[ManiacJoe]

41. That would be a gross misstatement of that flawed study.

[John Poet]

47. And if you had MY family, you'd understand WHY!

Muwhahahahahahahaha.

[TeddyR]

16. Dunno

Ask these people:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-mom-hiding-kids-shoots-intruder/story?id=18164812

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2015/06/09/detroit-home-invaders/28728493/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/80-year-old-woman-shoots-kills-intruder-attacked-husband-article-1.2628602

[jmg257]

18. "Why are bad guys that interested in killing you?"

Not sure - you might need to ask them, but why would they break into my house even though they knew someone was there?

What are they prepared to do, what with coming into an occupied house in the 1st place?

Is the hopes of a free TV worth the possibility of getting shot?

Is the hopes of a free TV worth them killing you instead?

Is getting away with robbery by killing you worth it to them?

Did they come in for the free TV, or something else?

Is their breaking in on the ground floor going to give you time to arm up on the 2nd floor?

Did your dog bark?

Do you have kids so that you need to be concerned about them playing with unsecure guns?

Is your safe located, and of such a style, that it is quick and easily accessible?

etc. etc.



Good questions, hopefully people give them lots of thought.

[Gomez163]

19. I think you hit on something. Get a dog.

[Lurker Deluxe]

20. Easy enough to answer

First things first.

My home is extremely secure, to get into my home you will have to defeat:

Gated community
Two possible secure entry points - front/back door - all windows are barred
Dog - not mean or anything - but you are not going to sneak up on her
Alarm system - hardwired and monitored

Yes, my pistol is loaded and easily accessible in the master bedroom, if you know where it is. The other guns are in a fire safe.

I have no children and generally visitors do not go into the master bedroom.

To get to the weapon in time requires one thing. Time. In reality it takes time to defeat the measures in place and during that time I would; call 911, retreat to the master bedroom, upstairs, and lock the door. I would then be armed. I would do everything in my power to not shoot someone including verbally warning them that I am armed. However, if they proceed and break into the master bedroom I would shoot and kill them.

I have never been in this situation and hope never to be, I do personally know people who have been in a home invasion situation and it is one thing that have a reasonable fear of. So I am prepared for that.

I do not own an AR platform rifle, kind of smallish caliber for anything I would use it for.

I hope that helps you understand.

[hunter]

21. I live with a dragon. He eats the bad guys.

Sometimes I'll hear a quickly extinguished shriek of terror, but usually I don't even wake up.

[Fresh_Start]

23. My attack kitty and I faced him in the living room with a baseball bat

while my mom let the police in.
In the middle of the night..looking for things to steal for money for drugs

and we all survived

[Gomez163]

26. I'm thinking of a Guns for Goggies Trade Program.

[Fresh_Start]

27. I'm thinking of telling children the truth about guns

the most dangerous thing in their lives are
1) daddy with drugs and guns
2) daddy with alcohol and guns
3) daddy and guns

[Gomez163]

28. I would agree with you in most instances.

[guillaumeb]

25. What terrible questions to ask!

In gun enthusiast world, there is always a good person with a gun to stop the evil person.

In gun enthusiast world, the good person never misses.

In gun enthusiast world, children never find guns.

In gun enthusiast world, the gun magically falls into the good person's hand.

In gun enthusiast world, the 30,000 firearms deaths are excused as the price of freedom.

In gun enthusiast world, "Red Dawn" is history, not a right wing gun owners fantasy.

[REP]

33. Why exactly do you want to know what guns people own and where they are stored?

You want photos of my jewelry, too?

[ManiacJoe]

43. Answers to your questions.

> How do you get to it in time before the bad guy gets you??
If I am awake, yes. If I am asleep, maybe.


> Do you have it loaded on the dresser? What if you kid finds it?
No. There is no excuse for an unsecured firearm. Plus, I have no kids.


> Is it in a safe? How do you get to it before the bad guy gets you?
All the guns except the one doing defense duty are in a safe.
The defense handgun is in the holster and out of sight for the night.


> Must you always be on guard, sleeping in a chair with the gun at the ready?
That would depend on your goals. My goal is 8 hours of sleep, so no not in the chair.


> And why are bad guys that interested in killing you?
You said this was a break in. Why change the story now?
If someone breaks into your house while it is known to be occupied, they intruders obviously intend to do you harm.


> How does this work with an AR-15? Do you have that leaning against your bedstand?
If the AR-15 was doing dense duty, it would be standing in the closet.
But I am too lazy to have a long gun doing my home defense work. All the long guns are in the safe.

[Gomez163]

44. Sorry about the one snotty question

[Dem2]

46. Most people end up shooting themselves or one of their family members

Guns are almost never used for self-defense, which should be a good thing, until you look at our suicide and domestic violence and kids shooting people stats.