You live alone ? Do you keep a gun in your residence ?

No guns.

My daughter's boyfriend (that she lives with) does, and it worries me because he's imbued her with an (in my opinion) overblown fear of 'invasion' and also because she has a number of emotional/psychological conditions that I doubt he knows of.
 

Ruth n Jersey said:
We don't have a gun.
I really don't understand the concept of having a gun in the home for protection.
Both of my kids have a gun which is unloaded, and in a safe in some obscure area of the house.
So when the burglar comes into your home do you kindly ask him to wait while you go to the safe, fiddle with the combination ,load the gun and then find the guy and shoot him?
I'm pretty sure I would have better results with a baseball bat or frying pan.
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No, you don't kindly ask an intruder to wait while you go to the safe, fiddle with the combination, load the gun and then find the guy and shoot him. That would make you an idiot.
You have the gun already loaded in a quick-access lockbox to keep it unaccessible to unauthorized persons but available to you in an emergency.
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win231 said:
No, you don't kindly ask an intruder to wait while you go to the safe, fiddle with the combination, load the gun and then find the guy and shoot him. That would make you an idiot.
You have the gun already loaded in a quick-access lockbox to keep it unaccessible to unauthorized persons but available to you in an emergency.
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@win231 I was only kidding about asking the intruder to wait and maybe my kids have a lockbox.. They probably called it a safe because mama would never know what a lockbox was.
 
tortiecat said:
I don't know anyone who has a gun except for a few hunters.
I don't think Canadians are as obsess with firearms as our
neighbours to the soouth.
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Tortiecat. Millions of Canadians own legal rifles and shotguns, for hunting use. Hand guns in Canada are VERY restricted . In order to get a permit to posses a hand gun in Canada, the applicant has to pass a number of RCMP investigations, and once they have the permit, they can ONLY shoot the pistol at a registered gun range. If an immediate family member objects to the application it will be denied, and of course no one with a criminal record is going to be approved for a gun license, of any kind. They can only transport the pistol directly from their home to the gun range, and then directly back home again in a gun case that is locked . The pistol must be stored unloaded, with a trigger lock on it, in a approved gun safe, at all times. The ammunition must be stored in a different gun safe.

Rifles and shotguns must be stored safely, unloaded with a trigger lock. Hunters must be licensed, and can only transport rifles or shotguns in a vehicle during the time period of a hunting season. No one in Canada ( with a few very specific exceptions ) can carry a hand gun in public. The exceptions are, on duty Police officers. On duty armored cash truck guards, and members of the Canadian Forces, while on duty. About 7,000 people in Canada have a "wilderness hand gun permit " that allows them to carry a hand gun in the course of their employment as trappers, hunting guides, or exploration crew members in the oil or mining industries. In Canada off duty Police are not armed. JimB.
 
Gaer said:
To gun ownership, when they confiscate them.
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Who, exactly, do you think is going to knock on doors and take guns from people unwilling to give them up? A cop, sherriff's deputy? There would have to be martial law and the military deployed to do that. There are an estimated 600,000 fully automated machine guns owned by US civilians. Semi-automatic rifles number in the millions.
 
hollydolly said:
I'm doing neither I'm just answering the question... Many country people in the UK are legal gun owners..
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Anyone who has livestock needs to possess a gun. Those who enjoy killing animals for pleasure should hire a gun for the purpose.
However, the question was directed at those who live alone, so the implication is about having guns for defence.
 
Gaer said:
When gun registration and confiscation comes around, might this statement be looked to as admission?
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Gaer.... In the USA it is estimated that we have 325,000 active police officers and 1.3 million active people in the military. That says that at most, around 1.7 million officials are available to come take our guns. The most conservative estimate I could find say that in the USA over 72 million people own one of more guns. And you can bet that more than half of those know how to use the guns to defend themselves and family.

Therefore, I do not lose any sleep about anyone coming around to confiscate my guns or force me to register them with the government.
 
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