Anti gun fact?

[ibanezfoo]

well now days thats what a lot of gang bangers are doing. what they do is knock on the door with some kind of excuse like can i use your phone theres been an accident or something and as soon as you open the door bam out comes a gun and his partner. what do you do in those situation? keep in mind that they use a reasonable excuse to get you to open the door. so i dont wanna hear well i just wouldn't answer the door. and this isn't in the getto there doing this in nicer nieghborhoods so your not expecting a hood at the door. what do you do?

Yep... Happened a couple months ago a few streets away from me. Lucky for me I have a big steel security door and my main door has a big decorative window that I can see through. It will be hard for them to pull off should they try it at my place.

-Bryan

[DedEye]

Usually the quote is 43 times as likely, but this is covered here.

[anothergunnut]

Life is full of trade offs. I prefer to take the very remote chance of having a thug force his way into my house over the much more likely chance of my children getting unsupervised access to guns. When I was a kid, me and my next door neighbor shot his dad's guns in the backyard in suburban San Jose. That is why I am careful to not let my children have unsupervised access to guns. Each person needs to assess their own situation and make their own decisions.

[Grouch]

I just heard that you are 9 times more likely to shoot a family member or yourself than an intruder if you have a gun in your home. Is this true? I have an anit gun family member and we argue all the time, but sometimes I don't have a come back to prove him wrong.

Hey, that gives me an idea. What about an anitgun fact or fiction forum. I'm sure everyone here has heard a lot of different things from the anit's. Would be cool to post what was said and let a group put a response together.

While it is probably true. It's a stupid fact.

It's no more significant than saying, that if you own a car and drive it daily, you are X times more likely to get hit by a semi truck than someone who does not own or drive a car.

Of course proximity to something deadly is going to give those in proximity to it a higher change to be injured by it than people who are not regularly in close proximity to it.

[DedEye]

Life is full of trade offs. I prefer to take the very remote chance of having a thug force his way into my house over the much more likely chance of my children getting unsupervised access to guns. When I was a kid, me and my next door neighbor shot his dad's guns in the backyard in suburban San Jose. That is why I am careful to not let my children have unsupervised access to guns. Each person needs to assess their own situation and make their own decisions.

Exactly. If I had kids or lived where kids had access to my guns, I probably wouldn't keep a loaded one around.

[ghettoshecky]

Uh the stupid gun owner in this instance. At no point did he actually identify a target. He just took a random shot

I totally agree. YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SHOOTING AT! So what happened to the guy? I hope he got involuntary manslaughter or at least worst father award.

[Dr. Peter Venkman]

First thing installed at my house was a peep hole on the front door and the second was an simple Radio Shack battery operated camper intercom. If I don't recognize who is at the door, the door does not open, and I talk to them through the intercom.

Only person who ever asked to use my phone was my usual mailman (locked his keys inside his truck).

I don't know what's worse, letting in an unknown gang banger or an upset postal worker.