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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
And the libtards would call that paranoia. Me, it's the same as having a fire extinguisher handy or using your seat belt etc.

Having a firearm that you are familiar with in a handy location is just a fact of life anymore. Having a firearm on my person at all times is nothing more than common sense. The odds are, as you stated Para, extremely small of ever needing those things I mentioned but I refuse to let the safety of me and my family fall onto anyone else.

Jim

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Worth noting is that Mrs DF asked me to keep a rifle out and within reach when we are home. She has been on a real journey relative to firearms. Early in our marriage my enthusiasm for defensive arms was mine alone. It took some tenacious nagging to get her to the range and she cared very little if I carried. She saw no reason to have a pistol out of the safe at home...even at night.

Years later after learning of some distressing events locally she was more comforted that I carried and there were guns loaded and chambered in the safe. Still barely got her to practice though. No guns out of the safe while at home....even at night.

She had a scare a couple years ago while I was working out of town. I noticed that she began to carry a firearm in her car and kept one out of the safe and hidden while I was away. She bought a small gun vault bedside safe and kept one of my 375 mags in it.....even when I was home.

Now she has had her eyes opened by global events and sees our vulnerable under belly exposed to militants of all stripes. She watches and reads about ISIS and knows extremists are already here. Her intent is never to have a knife at her throat. She scolded me -- and I mean angrily -- last week when she caught me not carrying while we were out. She has her rifle ready fully loaded and chambered in the safe. She has been practicing with enthusiasm with it and asks that I keep mine out and ready. Glad she has caught up to me.

It is better to have and not need, than to need and not have.

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Worth noting is that Mrs DF asked me to keep a rifle out and within reach when we are home. She has been on a real journey relative to firearms. Early in our marriage my enthusiasm for defensive arms was mine alone. It took some tenacious nagging to get her to the range and she cared very little if I carried. She saw no reason to have a pistol out of the safe at home...even at night.

Years later after learning of some distressing events locally she was more comforted that I carried and there were guns loaded and chambered in the safe. Still barely got her to practice though. No guns out of the safe while at home....even at night.

She had a scare a couple years ago while I was working out of town. I noticed that she began to carry a firearm in her car and kept one out of the safe and hidden while I was away. She bought a small gun vault bedside safe and kept one of my 375 mags in it.....even when I was home.

Now she has had her eyes opened by global events and sees our vulnerable under belly exposed to militants of all stripes. She watches and reads about ISIS and knows extremists are already here. Her intent is never to have a knife at her throat. She scolded me -- and I mean angrily -- last week when she caught me not carrying while we were out. She has her rifle ready fully loaded and chambered in the safe. She has been practicing with enthusiasm with it and asks that I keep mine out and ready. Glad she has caught up to me.

It is better to have and not need, than to need and not have.

Mr. DF,

Thank you again for posting this. Excellent food for thought.

Recently, I had to run an errand after dinner and could not go armed, so left the house pistol ready in its holster and told my wife that should someone come in the house to take it out, point it and shoot until they stopped moving. She has fired before (vacation trip to Thailand, etc., where it is possible), but has yet to come with me to the range. I told her to come along, next time I go, but will have to wait until it is her idea. (sound familiar?)

That being said, as I think she is more comfortable with a rifle, plans are still in process to have one ready for her to use, when I am not there; simple optics with a laser - just point and keep pulling the trigger. It may take a bit to get there, but this in addition to the house pistol seems to be workable.

As Mrs. DF has had her eyes opened, so has Mrs. EK. My intent is to never ever allow there to be a knife at her throat. We watch the satellite news out of Japan and there is so much more they report of what is going on in the world than we ever see from the libturd media here.

The local news is only watched in the morning for weather and traffic. When "Fox 2 News" had a several minute segment this morning about Ninny Pelosi and her "selfie" (do not like this word!) with the females of the SCOTUS (the "talking morons" were bent out of shape because Ginsburg was not smiling), I wanted to vomit. What about Tunisia??? What about Israel??? It just drove home again how much the local Fox News is carrying the libturd water.

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Worth noting is that Mrs DF asked me to keep a rifle out and within reach when we are home. She has been on a real journey relative to firearms. Early in our marriage my enthusiasm for defensive arms was mine alone. It took some tenacious nagging to get her to the range and she cared very little if I carried. She saw no reason to have a pistol out of the safe at home...even at night.

Years later after learning of some distressing events locally she was more comforted that I carried and there were guns loaded and chambered in the safe. Still barely got her to practice though. No guns out of the safe while at home....even at night.

She had a scare a couple years ago while I was working out of town. I noticed that she began to carry a firearm in her car and kept one out of the safe and hidden while I was away. She bought a small gun vault bedside safe and kept one of my 375 mags in it.....even when I was home.

Now she has had her eyes opened by global events and sees our vulnerable under belly exposed to militants of all stripes. She watches and reads about ISIS and knows extremists are already here. Her intent is never to have a knife at her throat. She scolded me -- and I mean angrily -- last week when she caught me not carrying while we were out. She has her rifle ready fully loaded and chambered in the safe. She has been practicing with enthusiasm with it and asks that I keep mine out and ready. Glad she has caught up to me.

It is better to have and not need, than to need and not have.

Mr. DF,

Thank you again for posting this. Excellent food for thought.

Recently, I had to run an errand after dinner and could not go armed, so left the house pistol ready in its holster and told my wife that should someone come in the house to take it out, point it and shoot until they stopped moving. She has fired before (vacation trip to Thailand, etc., where it is possible), but has yet to come with me to the range. I told her to come along, next time I go, but will have to wait until it is her idea. (sound familiar?)

That being said, as I think she is more comfortable with a rifle, plans are still in process to have one ready for her to use, when I am not there; simple optics with a laser - just point and keep pulling the trigger. It may take a bit to get there, but this in addition to the house pistol seems to be workable.

As Mrs. DF has had her eyes opened, so has Mrs. EK. My intent is to never ever allow there to be a knife at her throat. We watch the satellite news out of Japan and there is so much more they report of what is going on in the world than we ever see from the libturd media here.

The local news is only watched in the morning for weather and traffic. When "Fox 2 News" had a several minute segment this morning about Ninny Pelosi and her "selfie" (do not like this word!) with the females of the SCOTUS (the "talking morons" were bent out of shape because Ginsburg was not smiling), I wanted to vomit. What about Tunisia??? What about Israel??? It just drove home again how much the local Fox News is carrying the libturd water.

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Originally posted by entropy:
For my wife, 9/11 changed everything.

Everything.

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Originally posted by mrmn50:
DF ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You have a great insurance policy to avoid the knife to the throat. I have prepared as well, as well.

I have seen the horrors of an animal like enemy and swore that those things would never happen to me. I have discussed this with my dear wife and she is on board.

What I have, she has, right down to grips. We train diligently and use our range trips to run drills.The world is getting very hinky and I do not want either of us to become victims.
Great post on your part.
Be well

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Originally posted by Leemur:
Just put an illuminated scope on my AR Tuesday and got it zeroed.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I've been shooting a bit lately, made a couple of changes to a rifle I keep close at hand and I wanted to check it for function.

I'm glad to see some people in the world waking up to the barbaric nature of some in this world, but it's not enough not nearly enough, not yet.

We have a president who couldn't manage to keep us secure in the highly unlikely possibility that he would actually care to even try to keep this nation secure.

We are on our own in the face of imminent danger. This is not simply talk. I am not some young man full of hyperbole. This is real. We in the United States now face guerrilla-style attacks from cells of these psychopaths, and we, each of us, are on our own.

The odds are against you encountering such a thing. This nation is so vast, the odds are astronomically low that you will be at the wrong place at the wrong time. For some reason I do not take comfort in this.

So, I've been shooting a bit lately, and today I cleaned my rifle and threw three extra loaded magazines in the bag.

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Originally posted by entropy:
For my wife, 9/11 changed everything.

Everything.

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Originally posted by AdkMtnGuy:
In my experience, women are amazing at picking up and shooting a semi-auto rifle way faster,, more accurately, and more comfortably, than a handgun. They just need to not slouch to support eh weight of the rifle, and not have an idiot teach them to get scope hammered and scare them away from guns totally.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
In my experience, the more information she has about the true nature of the world and its inhabitants, the more willing she will be to defend herself from it. All I did, and quite by accident, is to expose her to the horrors of the world that, as you stated, we don't get on the six o'clock news. She caught on like dry tinder; slow at first, mostly smoke, but now she is fully engulfed. The more she learned, the more she exposed to herself for further information.

I suspect most of us are the same. we really don't want to know there is a monster under the bed. But once we do, we want to know what to do about it. One last thing. I asked her not long ago if she though beheadings would happen here in the US. She reflexively said, "no way...", but on further consideration was more honest with herself and agreed we would likely begin seeing them. I then asked her if she would submit and deny her religious convictions to save her life. She said she never would. She'd rather have her head removed. Then I asked her if she would submit to Allah to spare one of her boy's head.......she began to sob.

I did that not to be cruel, but to condition her to the kind of animals these extremists are. It is what they have already done to others. The answer can only be to never let it get that far. Die fighting, but no knives to throats. That is why we have the arms we do and over 10,000 rounds of ammo for them. Do I think it will ever come to my little hamlet? No. But if it does we go down fighting. No knives to the throat.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I have to say, it is gratifying to read others' experiences and preparations. Even better than what and how Mrs df and I have done to prepare is that there are at least 10 other families in my immediate neighborhood who are fully engulfed, equally prepared and intent on protecting each other. We meet occasionally, are organized and are prepared according to our specific skill sets. We all agree that no man is an island. No one can possibly store and prepare as completely as an organized, connected and committed group. It is comfort in an uneasy world. I hope others have done or will do the same.