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WEAPONS FOR HOME DEFENSE: WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

March 23, 2018 by

 

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Home defense begins in the home, but you knew that. The real question of weapons and home defense starts with location, location, location.

 

I met a Portland man who bought a former crack house. Customers who didn’t get the press report on the crack wire crawled through his windows for a year. He didn’t own home defense weapons. Or he didn’t talk about what he did own.

 

And that’s one of the kickers here. Do responsible gun owners need to open carry their gear on the sidewalk, the street, or in the mall? What’s the intended message there, because it’s lost on half of the viewers who see open carry as open compensation.

 

Why not keep that stuff zipped down?

 

So where do you live that you need war weapons and a sh!tload of ammo to plug into them? Suburban Portland isn’t the same as suburban Syria, or suburban Iraq, or suburban Afghanistan, where weapons with hands attached drive around in Toyota pickups. Maybe it’s the same rig you’d find in Portland, but with a few extras.

 

Maybe an honest look at the gun buying public would show weapons stockpiled as if the owner expected a suicide charge in their front yard. Since I don’t live in a free fire zone I don’t expect my neighbors to own an arsenal, but they might.

 

What I do have is a regularly stationed policeman parking across the street in his battle wagon, but that’s a different post. He’s armed to the teeth and we’re friends.

 

Talk about home defense weapons to your friends and be ready for a shock. I told one man about the weapons that came from an abandoned gun safe.

 

“If you think that’s a lot of guns, you won’t want to hear about my collection,” he said. Just hearing the word collection was a good sign.

 

Another man I spoke to acted indifferent at first, then pulled out a suitcase full of pistols, then cases of rifles. Like it was all normal, and since it’s America, it is.

 

Considering the number of family members killed by home defense weapons each year, is it possible to agree there’s a gun problem? If a wife or kid ends up on the wrong end, mistaken for a home intruder, there’s a community burden. When a school is targeted, a church, then it’s a social burden.

 

No one asks for more burden, but looking away isn’t working either.
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Comments

  1. Scott Milburn says
    March 24, 2018 at 9:35 am

    I wonder how many gun owners have never actually bought a gun. I do enjoy shooting, I’ve joined a club in Bandon with a friend, and we go once or twice a month.

    I’ve got a gun safe with several handguns, rifles and shotguns. Most of them left to me by my Dad, my Grandfather and my wife’s father. I’ve also got some of their tools and personal items.

    There’s something about using these things and the connection with these people that using them brings. I wouldn’t want to give any of these up, not because of my “second amendment rights”, but like my Grandfather’s ring or my father-in-laws pocket knife or my Dad’s tools I like the fact that they actually used these things, left their mark on them.

    Kind of rambling here Deed, but you made me think this morning.

    • David Gillaspie says
      March 25, 2018 at 11:01 am

      ‘Collections’ are the key to most things. It’s a general term instead of a specific object. I believe cultural anthropology is another way of talking about the stuff that connects the past to the present. We know more about the past because of the tools they used, and five thousand years out our stuff will tell a bigger story.

      In the meantime, tools, guns, watches, give a nice picture of the near past, a shared past. I buy some things in doubles today so my kids can fight over other things.

      About that rambling, my friend, we call it thoughtfulness around here. Thanks for coming in, Scott. Going through the buying process is a nice window into the public mood for guns. And doing good deeds. lol