Yup, training and learning and understanding the power and that dead is dead.
I can't handle paintball, shooting a person is so wrong to me. I *think* if
threatened I could perform but I have it lodged in my head that you don't shoot
anything you don't want dead...
-Curt
From: Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Cc: Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: New gun
And now we are heading down the political road. I have a gun within reach
loaded and ready to go all over the house. Kid knows not to touch it or he will
die. A locked up gun does no good. Proper training is the key.
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> On Jan 30, 2017, at 5:27 PM, Larry Turner via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> Hopefully everyone who owns or enjoys guns and shooting are NRA members. The
> monthly magazine members get has a full page column called "The Armed
> Citizen", It tells 8-12 stories about people who use guns to defend
> themselves or their property. Sometime it just take the presence of a gun
> while other time lethal force is use. The thing that hits me the hardest
> about these stories is how a calm situation can turn into a confrontation in
> a skinny instant. There's no time for, 'I got a gun in the bottom of a
> closet' somewhere when someone (or more than one) decides to kick in your
> back door while you and the misses watch TV. The media never publicize a
> citizens use of a gun unless they can spin it to fit their agenda. That's
> why I love these news stories. It shows that it happens all the time - a
> couple or family will be sleeping or watching TV as in my 1st example and
> someone breaks a window and starts climbing in. Or they might be out on the
> town when they turn a corner and are confronted with a groups of people
> looking for someone to rob or worse. Often a retired octogenarian is the one
> sleeping or watching TV... without a gun they are at the mercy of who ever is
> breaking down their door - and they may not have any mercy to spare.
>
> My point is, we need the NRA to protect our 2nd Amendment right which gives
> us the right to bear arms and protect ourselves against those stronger, more
> numerous or more willing to be violent than we are. We have a God given
> right to protect ourselves from being beaten, robbed, raped or murdered and
> having a firearm gives us the means to protect ourselves.
>
> Rant off - 'nuff said.
>
> LarryT
>
>
>> On 01/30/2017 3:37 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
>> Personal protection is a necessity in every area.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Jan 30, 2017, at 2:30 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Handguns are not a topic I care to broach at home. Wife had a very
>>> unfortunate incident when she was a kid where her father was accidentally
>>> shot with a handgun that was improperly stored in an overnight bag. I know
>>> it was an accident and preventable, but it was pretty terrifying to her as
>>> she was the one who was the first responder and had to deal with the trauma.
>>>
>>> As a result I defer to her concerns about having a handgun in the house.
>>> It’s easy to understand why it would freak her out. It’s not like we live
>>> somewhere that personal protection is a necessity. If we lived in a rural
>>> area with some distance between ourselves and others I would definitely
>>> want some sort of personal protection in-house. That would be after she
>>> took the proper courses in proper use and handling, too.
>>>
>>> Safety first.
>>>
>>> -D
>>>
>>>> On Jan 30, 2017, at 3:19 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I own many hand guns
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 30, 2017, at 2:12 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
>>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I don’t really have a desire to own a handgun, but if I did I have always
>>>>> considered a Ruger Mark IV. Yes, I know it’s a .22 pistol, but I’m not
>>>>> interested in something for personal protection, just a target pistol or
>>>>> something to plink with.
>>>>>
>>>>> -D
>>>
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