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Originally Posted by disneysteve
I think the problem is that if you are truly responsible with it, it will not meet the need of self-defense. To me, being responsible means keeping it unloaded and locked up in a secure safe where nobody but you can access it. Of course, it may not do you any good there in an emergency.
If you keep it loaded in your bedside table, then you aren't being responsible with it IMO.
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These are similar to my thoughts.
As the daughter of a cop... I grew up with a gun in the house. BUT it was locked in its case locked in a closet and the master bedroom could be locked. It wouldn't have served its purpose very well if we were suddenly robbed because although my Dad was quick, he wasn't that quick.
When we moved to San Diego, I had my Dad send me a "motion sensor alarm" from Radio shack and I put that on the front door of our apartment (he did that to my sister and I when he noticed we were coming home at late hours of the night and he didn't want to stay up all night waiting for us... he even super glued the switch so we couldn't turn it off).
The motion sensor he bought us, you had to input a code otherwise the alarm would go off.
We have ADT here now that we own a place and it really helps my piece of mind when my husband is out on training missions. The alarm is really loud too, and our neighbor is a police officer... so I hold more faith in alarm systems than I do in guns.
A big dog wouldn't hurt either. I love Dobermans, but don't personally have one since we're novice dog owners and I've heard that they can easily become a handful if not trained properly.
Thats just my take though. I don't have anything against guns, but whenever I play the situation out in my head... I don't think I could get to one in time for it to be effective protection.