re: Parents home break in

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Time to teach some gun safety to the kids. I keep a loaded one in my nightstand next to my bed. My 6 year old son has never touched it. He knows NOT to touch it either.

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This right here! I have had loaded guns strategically placed throughout my house my son’s entire life.

I have taught him gun safety since he was 4 years old shooting a Red Ryder. He shot his first flying duck when he was 6. There has never been any “mystery” or curiosity about firearms to him. He knows exactly what their purpose and potential is. I can assure you that there is no person alive that I would rather have beside me in a blind, dove field, or if an intruder was in my house.

His college education and his upcoming grad school has/will be paid for by his proficiency with a firearm. If I had hidden all my guns from him until he was an “adult”, none of this would have been possible.

I suppose other kids may be different, but an unloaded gun in a home invasion situation may as well be replaced by a rock or baseball bat.

Law of averages will catch up with this guy.

He’s well on his way to breaking into the wrong person’s house.

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That’s a cop who didn’t feel like writing a report.

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Sounds like a cop who is in on it….

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unloaded revolver

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An excellent way for the good guy to get killed.

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People will absolutely torch me for saying this, but I will speak my mind anyway.

Your child is 6 years old. I don’t know your child at all, he’s probably a great kid. I’m not leaving any 6 year old on the planet access to an unsupervised gun. I don’t care what kind of training they’ve had.

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The gun is loaded but not chambered, which is an extra layer of protection. I also have two other pistols hidden in the same room that are loaded Bur not chambered so that they can be accessed and ready to shoot quickly. But he (the 6 year old) does know not to mess with guns and the dangers of them. And in the next year or two I will go through more complete gun safety with him.

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put an unloaded revolver

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As in he plans to load it if he has to use it right? Not just to scare someone? Because that can be worse than not having a gun.

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would have immediately been 3 rounds center mass before a word was ever spoken.

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oh sure you would tough guy”, I have already been in this scenario.

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But you didn’t put 3 center mass before a word was spoken the first time. And an 18 year old doesn’t say… hmm I’m outside, castle doctrine only applies inside my house so I’d better not shoot.

And his situation would have been similar. You would have had to shoot the guy in the back most likely. That would have been trouble. And scared, smart, whatever. But you didn’t shoot in the first scenario so don’t act tough guy.

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But you didn’t do it did you pussy boy?

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No I didn’t because as I clearly stated he was outside my house which would have made it illegal. I kept my gun on him and he stayed put until cops arrived. Had he took off running then I would have had to just let him.

Ive got my .40 pistol loaded, not chambered, in the dresser w the tac light by my bed. Kids cant get to it, cant chamber it without jamming, and is safe away from the kiddos. Plus ive taken them out for gun safety training. A damn revolver is not a home defense weapon, and even with a speed loader like i have resting in my .44 and .38 sp way out of reach so that its ready to go, youre limiting yourself by the ammo, neglecting the bullet power and where it could land, and blowing out everyones eardrums in the home. Im no expert, hell, id call myself a rookie outside of my personal equipment, but if ive had a break in, id have done my research a dozen times over. That situation is nuts.

I’m sorry this happened to your parents.

Sounds like cops don’t want to do paperwork.
Guys has probably done this way more that three times.
Cops tell everyone same story.
So criminal don’t have a long rap sheet due to no one pressing charges.