Frightening! Three Masked Teens with Guns Shot Dead by Homeowner in GA w/ AR-15

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  1. Professor Peabody

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    Thanks!
     
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    This is the way I see it. It's the same with the UK. There are certain things that I would like to see be scrapped, such as the perks staff get in local government jobs and child benefit payments. But I've always said to people, whilst they're there then take them. It's the same with assault rifles in America if I lived there. Buy them and use them but if there were a national vote to ban them, my vote would be to ban them. If the vote was to keep them, I would live by that decision, I wouldn't be campaigning that I lost. Then people can choose to own one or not. It's simply just having that democratic right to vote. I know Americans will default to rights but life and priorities change over time.
     
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    40 cal is closer to 9 than 10 mm.

    I'd say sub .45 cal.
     
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    Yeah, between the two.
     
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    That statement pretty much shows you don't have a clue.
     
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    Yes that is exactly what it is, for the simple fact folks have been protecting their homes with a good ole shotgun for decades. Btw I am speaking from personal experience.
     
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    You are not counting on it, you are counting on the blast.
     
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    That is exactly what happened with the 94 Clinton assault rifle ban which also banned new magazines over 10 rounds. The police found criminals were turning to larger, more powerful rounds such as .40, .45, .357 mag, .44 mag and complained they were outgunned. Gun control policies always have unintended consequences that usually makes things worse.
     
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    Yes, hence the shotgun in your hands to save your life.

    Working any gun action (like cocking the single action revolver in a western) is not a deterrent.

    My home defense shotgun is stainless with an orange synthetic stock.

    Its highly visible, but im not counting on it.
     
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    What about the rest of the state?
     
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    “You're still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/prison?
     
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    Or you get caught with them in your possession.
     
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    Never got to live in that lilly white world.

    Have had to use a gun to defend myself from a home invasion.
     
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    Sure, people have done so successfully. I like shotguns. I’m just not going to base my expectations of how they or the ammunition in them will perform on my wishes or needs. I’m going to base that on verifiable facts.

    When you say you are speaking from experience that could mean you’ve tested your firearm and ammo simulating shooting someone, you have scared people away by brandishing, or you have incapacitated someone by shooting them. Or you have been safe and had a shotgun in the house at the same time with no clear correlation between the two. For what it’s worth, there’s a big difference in those kinds of experience.
     
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    I’ll tell YOU what’s enough. Never the other way around.
     
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    No when I say from experience, when I was young someone broke into our basement my dad went into action with that shotgun. Dude got up out of there in a hurry. Any gun will work in your home, I prefer the shotgun.
     
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    Glad you’re family had that option and you all are ok.

    Again I’m not against shotguns or any guns. Just concerns me when there is a cavalier attitude about ramifications of choices especially when calling someone else’s informed statement on penetration of different projectiles bull****. Did your dad put holes in walls? Do you know what ammo was used? If it came down to actually incapacitating the intruder are you certain that ammo would have been able to do the job safely?

    When I was 11 I watched my dad put 3 rounds of hollow point .22LR in the lungs of a mountain lion. Luckily the cat jumped the “right” way (even though it was starving and on a kill) and died quickly. I own the Higgins lever action now that he used simply because that’s what he had in his hands that night. But when I know there’s a lion in the area and I have to go see why the cattle are restless I don’t grab that rifle even though it worked in the past.

    Again I’m not criticizing you or your family. I’m just of the opinion responsible gun owners have a responsibility to take these issues seriously.
     
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    Read what I post and I won't be forced to take you to task so. Do you see what you make me do?

    "So the police report would be hearsay, its an unsworn out of court statement offered for its truth. But the COP testifying what he heard the defendant say would be EXCLUDED (rather than excepted) from the hearsay rule because the defendant is a party and the plaintiff is offering the statement through a witness who heard it with personal knowledge and who is subject to cross then.."
     
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    Yeah but only in the civilian market and only because they want to sell $500 models for $1000 to the military
    instead of trying to compete with the saturated civilian market where the floor price is $350 or so.

    They LITERALLY just released a statement to that effect TODAY. It had NOTHING to do with "mass shootings", everything to do with there being too many manufacturers in the market for their taste, and they even said its not a permanent measure.

    Which DOES invalidate your comment.
     
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    Will somebody sell me an M-16, a real military weapon?
     
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    And new orleans is blue as blue gets and not run by the state government during katrina. Mayor Nagan's decisions were one of the major contributing factors to the cluster **** that was katrina
     
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    My computer cannot get to the site. I really didn't think anyone sold them except black market street.

    Has the switch been disabled? How much fortune for one?

    I really don't want one, and expected that a military assault weapon would not legally be for sale in the USA.
     
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    That is your interpretation of "to that effect", and it is wrong. Colt hates mass shootings with semi-automatic rifles and does not want to be associated with them.
     
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    JakeStarkey said:
    Louisiana is a red state, my friend. When given the chance, the GOP disarms the citizens.
    Which shows that Red State Louisiana government and Red State US government was disarming city residents, who mostly vote blue.

    Thanks, Reality.
     

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