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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

*(well it doesn't rhyme worth a shit, but it's got several lines and stuff)

So, just call it a Haiku + One and you're all good.

And Fly-Sig, it never happens, then it happens. I bought my first pistol, a Browning 380 (pre-1968 GCA), on my 21st birthday, a couple months after getting mugged and beaten by two guys, three blocks from my home in a nice, safe area.

I had just enough warning that I could have pulled it and shot both of them, except it had never happened, so I wasn't ARMED!

Now, I am.

Milo certainly changed this guy's mind.
The front door was closed..

https://ring.com/share/db1805f...7f-b564-094f5723311e

BTW I did fix the flag after seeing this..

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:...

I wouldn't voluntarily live in a neighborhood where the risk of attack in my yard in daylight hours was so high it felt prudent to carry a firearm all the time.
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Moving to isolation is no different than one arming themselves in the shower.

Both are to put impediment between harm and self.

If all that live in a place where risk of attack in daylight is a reality and therefore arm themselves were to make a derisive comment about those who choose to live in isolation, as "feeling the need to hide", would it not seem arrogant or judgmental?


They are each side of the same coin, and neither side changes the coin.

I don't carry 24/7 because I feel unsafe. It's because one time would be unacceptable.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:
I wouldn't voluntarily live in a neighborhood where the risk of attack in my yard in daylight hours was so high it felt prudent to carry a firearm all the time.

Meanwhile, some of us simply do the best we can with what we can afford. Like Some Shot alludes to, there have been a few occasions where I really wished I had a gun on me and didn't. I try to learn from my mistakes.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Nobody likes strangers showing up unannounced, especially these days.

I don't like people I know showing up unannounced. That privilege is reserved for exactly two people. Everybody else? Call first.

Always be vigilant and prepared.

This was posted on Citizen Free Press a day or two ago. . .

https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1930652600212336966

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:
Y'all live in some dangerous neighborhoods to feel the need to be armed out in your yard.

About half the homes in this neighborhood are part time residents, which makes those homes more of a target than my home. Yet I have never heard of a break-in here. Only some minor vandalism of landscaping by the indigenous wildlife.

I live in what I would consider a very nice neighborhood, but not like an expensive gated community. Only for one short period of time did I actually carry while out in my yard doing yard work and it was due to my idiot neighbor’s dog at that time. The idiot neighbor still lives there to this day and still annoys me in absolutely every possible way he can. The list would be huge if stated all he does. Our HOA limits four pets and he has always had seven dogs. It is like living next door to a dog pound with the barking. Anyway, when I first moved in 24 years ago one of his dogs was a pit bull. I was weeding in my front yard with one of those hand held weeders and suddenly his dog ran at me full force barking and growling and I held the weeder ready to stab it in the neck and yelled and luckily it just nipped at me and ran back to the owner. Then another time I was in my fenced backyard and it jumped and climbed over the fence to come at me and I was able to make it inside my home. After that I carried while I did yard work and as much as I would not have wanted to do it, I would have shot the dog the next time. He then got rid of the dog and now has all small dogs that bark all day every second.

The house on the other side of me was burglarized at around 6pm, while I was out back cooking on the grill. He was a great neighbor and I wish I had heard something, but my camera system caught it all on video for the police and they were apprehended. The house across the street from me had an attempted home invasion where the people tried breaking down the front door but couldn’t and left. It was late at night and the local police know I have cameras and asked to review and luckily with the cameras you could see one of the suspects toss a lit cigarette as he approached the house, which allowed them to find the cigarette for DNA. I live in a dead end with a park at it and a man raped a woman in the park and my cameras caught images of him and his vehicle.

Multiple times vehicles at home on my street have been “broken into”, in other words the people didn’t lock their vehicles and left valuables in them, but I always lock my vehicles and don’t leave valuables. Each time the turds tried my vehicles as well and just walked away as they were locked, but I was able to give good video to police of the suspects.

Regardless of the fact I live in a very nice neighborhood and even if none of these events had ever happened, I would still have my front door reinforced the way I do and guns in strategic locations all over my house. Better safe than sorry is my motto. My doors are locked at all times and at night before I go to bed I get the coffee maker ready for the morning, arm the alarm system, and check that every door is locked.

I keep meaning to buy a couple of these:

Originally posted by Fly-Sig:

[/QUOTE] I wouldn't voluntarily live in a neighborhood where the risk of attack in my yard in daylight hours was so high it felt prudent to carry a firearm all the time.[/QUOTE]

Every victim of a violent crime never knew what was going to happen to them that day. I am sure the majority of them felt safe going about their lives.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:

I keep meaning to buy a couple of these:

My wife bought one, it is set in place every night before bed time.

I remember them being in widespread use in NYC in the mid 1950s, when apartment break-ins were common everyday occurences.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:

I keep meaning to buy a couple of these:

My wife bought one, it is set in place every night before bed time.

I remember them being in widespread use in NYC in the mid 1950s, when apartment break-ins were common everyday occurences.

I just ordered four and they were on sale.

We don't answer the door for strangers. This has been a household policy for a few years now.

Last summer I was working in the garage with the door up (FYI I live in a development). Guy starts walking up my drive towards my open garage and I yell, STOP. He stops a second then starts again. I reach for my pistol on my strong side hip and yell again STOP, DO NOT COME ANY CLOSER. He stops, see's my hand and high tails it back down my driveway to the sidewalk. I simply come to the edge of my garage and inform him that in this neighborhood you don't walk up on someones open garage without being invited. I then told him to leave as I have no soliciting signs and I'm not interested in anything he has to say to me.

Surfing for a moment on that door bar, I found another gadget: the Prime-Line Door Reinforcement Lock.

I’m trying to think now about the advantages/disadvantages of one over the other.
All I see so far is that I’m way less likely to trip over the reinforcer.

What do you guys think about this gadget?

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Originally posted by vthoky:
Surfing for a moment on that door bar, I found another gadget: the Prime-Line Door Reinforcement Lock.

I’m trying to think now about the advantages/disadvantages of one over the other.
All I see so far is that I’m way less likely to trip over the reinforcer.

What do you guys think about this gadget?

Anything is better than nothing. I like the idea of the bar better as the reinforcer is screwed into the wood frame, or do both! All depends on what type of length screws you can use. The default screws on a door lock are pathetic. This is how I reinforced my front door with a single plate to cover both the knob an dead bolt and used longer screws. This will be way harder to kick in and even more so once I add the bar.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

Every victim of a violent crime never knew what was going to happen to them that day. I am sure the majority of them felt safe going about their lives.

Like I said, the risk here is as near to zero as anywhere, at least from humans, and I am comfortable not carrying a pistol on my person while out in the yard. I understand the risk is always non-zero anywhere. But truly the risk of being attacked by a human during the day while in my yard or inside my home is the very lowest risk of anything I do.

That’s about what we’ve done here, Normin. )Love that you documented the project!) Similar to the plate you show, I mortised in a 3-foot span of 3/16” steel that I cut to fit the latch bolt and deadbolt, and attached with 3” screws. Solid.


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Back story:

Many years ago I got locked out of the house on a holiday weekend. All of my friends who had my spare keys were out of town. So I kicked in the front door. I was stunned at how easily it opened up. The following weekend, we tore into reinforcing door frames.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:
But truly the risk of being attacked by a human during the day while in my yard or inside my home is the very lowest risk of anything I do.

I pray it stays that way for you and all of us. I really do. We should be able to feel safe in and at our own homes.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:
But truly the risk of being attacked by a human during the day while in my yard or inside my home is the very lowest risk of anything I do.

I pray it stays that way for you and all of us. I really do. We should be able to feel safe in and at our own homes.

Agreed. I've lived the other way, too. For ten years we were in Albuquerque, before the days of concealed carry, with bars on every window and door, plus a monitored alarm system. Daytime break-ins were epidemic. Drive-by shootings happened daily, including one at our grocery store. The schools were quite unsafe, which was the final motivation for us to leave.

We have two of the door-bars, as shown in the lower-right of SN’s pic, and they are always positioned at night, and often during the day.

Although an aggressive attempt (or two or three, or so) to dislodge / defeat them would be probably be successful, the noise of doing so would be give me a moment to get prepared.

I also have also ‘coached’ my wife, son and daughter, that if an ‘incident’ is developing at the door and gets breached and they don’t have time to or want to grab one of the nearby pew-pews, to use the bar itself beat the crap out of whoever may need it.

Being attacked while mowing the lawn , etc, is not even on my Radar .