Do you feel safe in your house?

when people talk about guns people tend to say: i need it for self defence if someone breaks into my house and in all honesty it does tend to be americans.

pour example' I just read a guy post something to the effect of: i'd give mine up in a heartbeat if I could be sure no crackhead would break into my house with one.

wtf?
the only place I would feel the need to carry a gun is south africa and I wouldn't go there in the 1st place because of that. I know if you'r eborn in the US you don't have mnuch choice in the matter but do people really fear it like old women who live on there own over here do? (which i dont get either, what does an old person have worth nicking? )

I live in a manky scheme and I've never felt scared in my own home or around here at all. I thought we were getting broke into once and I ran downstairs with a belt ready to go to town, i didnt think man i wish I had a gun....

thoughts, comments, opinions.................

some quotes from the thread I'm reffering too:

I doubt your common sense here. What am I supposed to let a theug tie me to a chair and ass rape my wife and daughter then just call the cops and let them deal with it? You can be a victim, I refuse to be someone's food.


I would give up my guns in a heartbeat........ if I could trust that my fellow citizens wouldn't try to break in my home and murder me to steal some stuff for crack.

It's "par exemple" not "pour examplé" :P

not the way we got taught it. If you're right then it's kinda funny how much disregard we have for the language

You can't have been taught that And of course I'm right! Google it if you don't trust me

meh.

anyways back to the topic at hand:

another quote: When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns



no shit. happens to be like that here, people aren't being shot left right n centre.

If you want to debate gun ownership, just say so!

I feel relatively safe in my house. There have been times in the past when I didn't, but overall, I feel pretty safe. I feel much MORE safe knowing any feral loser who tries to come down the hall towards our bedrooms will have to take a dozen or so rounds of .45 from my dad to get to us.

The only time I really don't feel safe is when running, and that's not cause of people I pass, it's because of the idiots who don't chain their dogs. Nothing says "leash" so much as standing out in the street being circled by a snapping German Shepherd and wondering if I have to, if I can get my hand down to my Spyderco without getting it torn off. I'm planning on picking up a canister of pepper spray or two when I get out to the gunstore next - a much better defense than a knife.

Adrian

you mean just downtown jo'berg at night?

you believe far too much of what you read.

lol - I thought he meant 'poor example' lot's more fitting


as for the topic:

I don't lock my doors half the time, especially at nights. I used to go to bed leaving the garage door wide open. I leave the deck door open and go to work. I don't do it deliberately, but locking doors is not something that is constantly on my mind. I have to say that I do live in a very safe neighborhood/town/area/state/side of the country And of course I don't own a gun.

Me worried? Only after I watch a scary movie

I've never heard a good word about south africa from people I know who have experience there.

a girl I work with moved here with her whole family because "she was sick of being mugged and having her house broke into" and she knew too many people who'd been raped and felt it was just a matter of time.

A guy I know's ex wife got car jacked last year/ instead of leaving her at the side of the road the guys that did it kidnapped her, raped her repeatedly then slit her throat.

another guy who emmigrated here said he'd never go back even to visit family because he hated it so much getting broke into andf mugged all the time.


If I knew people who said the same about Crete I wouldn't be flying out there next week either.