Guns kept in the home for self-protection are 22 times more likely to be used to kill somebody you know than to kill in self-defense, according to a 1998 study by the Journal of Trauma. When someone is home, a gun is used for protection in fewer than two percent of home invasion crimes. More kids, teenagers and adult family members die from firearms in their own home than criminal intruders.

 

Agreed, you hear more of accidental shootings with a ready gun than you do people defending their homes with a ready gun.

JD, if I ever disagreed with you in any thread...someone else had hacked onto my BGP account. We're cool right?!?!?! :scared::scared:

 

:laugh:cool as a cucumber:lol:

No need to argue the point, because the facts are clear. It takes about 30 seconds to unlock a properly stored weapon. If you keep an unlocked, loaded weapon in your home, you are doing the very worst thing possible to protect your family. Simple as that.

 

Might not have that 30 seconds. Could just be a split second decision. *See Sean Taylor.

 

A friend of mine has a gun similar to this. I am going to go shooting with him later this month. If I like it good enough I might start saving up for one of my own.

Agreed, you hear more of accidental shootings with a ready gun than you do people defending their homes with a ready gun.

 

This is because the American public only wants to hear about the tragedy, which is sad..

We stored a B B gun at an uncle's house when our boy's were younger. Worried about summer vacation and horseplay.

This is because the American public only wants to hear about the tragedy, which is sad..

Actually, I would think it's the new's stations who want to report the tragedy.

Guns kept in the home for self-protection are 22 times more likely to be used to kill somebody you know than to kill in self-defense, according to a 1998 study by the Journal of Trauma. When someone is home, a gun is used for protection in fewer than two percent of home invasion crimes. More kids, teenagers and adult family members die from firearms in their own home than criminal intruders.

 

Agreed, you hear more of accidental shootings with a ready gun than you do people defending their homes with a ready gun.

 

Propaganda.

 

Why? Because not all incidents of guns preventing crimes (even when not fired) are reported.

 

How do I know? Because THREE (3) times in my experience guns were introduced into a situation, and those situations were IMMEDIATELY difussed. And I guarantee that none of them were reported, and in NONE of the situations were the guns fired.

 

 

 

Those stats only include the REPORTED discharging of firearms.

Those stats only include the REPORTED discharging of firearms.

No matter how we bend the stats, the point is still the same.

My 1911 IS loaded and in reach from my bed. All adults in my house. No kids around.

I think we have a misunderstanding about my original post.

I qouted myself because in my house as it is today with me being the only person with access to my firearm I feel a lock is not needed.

I am not saying the locks are not neccessary. In fact it's been just recently that I brought my guns home. When my kids were younger I kept most of them at my dads and my pistol was in a small safe. Believe me if we have visitors with kids or the grandkids start arriving the safe will come back out.

I'm not big on locks, they take too long to unlock in many cases. That's why I keep a speedloader ready to go. Much faster. If you own a semi-auto and worry about kids, just keep the magazine out of it till you need it, again much quicker IMO.