Home invasions up
50% since 2000. In response, the dumbest police lieutenant on earth opines:
He said he was not in favor of people having handguns for protection because if the weapons were properly secured in a safe, unloaded and locked, it would take too long to get them during a break-in. He also said a burglar could turn the gun on a victim.
There plenty of ways to secure a weapon and make it accessible. And, again, the myth that they’ll just use your gun against you.
Via LaPierre, who notes that enforcing existing laws and sentencing guidelines would help too.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Let me see if I get this straight.
Translated: If you’re going to have a gun in your home, it should be unloaded and locked in a secure container. This new law will make that mandatory. Also, people shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun in your house because you’d never be able to open the safe and load it in time to use it properly.
Um…OK.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Fixed.
I’m still not quite sure why something in a safe needs to also be unloaded and further locked. I actually do use gun locks (the chain type — whoever came up with the idea of trigger locks deserves a few hits with the common sense stick), but generally speaking if someone’s gotten through a safe’s specialized lock and rather hard core materials, I don’t exactly think they’re going to be defeated by some AWG 4 wire and a ten buck lock is going to stop them.
The rest of it’s normal idiocy, but at least the direction it’s coming from is obvious.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
“I’m still not quite sure why something in a safe needs to also be unloaded and further locked.”
I agree; it seems to me that if someone is smart enough to get into your gun safe, they’re smart enough to know how to load a gun, so why worry whether it is loaded or not?
April 4th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Keep your defense gun on your person. Store the other guns in your home according you’re own common sense.
My kids have been taught proper gun handling, and I figure if I can trust them around the kitchen knives, household chemicals, power tools, cookstove, welding equipment, lighters and gasoline cans, to say nothing of the fact that they, technically, have access to the car keys, I can trust them around firearms. Your choices may differ. None of them are anyone else’s business whatsoever. Simple enough?
April 5th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Well Hell, I am going to believe the dumbest police lieutenant in the world. Yessir, I am throwing all my guns in the lake, because when the bad guys show up, I’ll just pretend to be bad and take their gun and use it against them. It must be awfully easy to do. I’ve been hearing about it for years from all those professional ONLY ONES. Which makes me wonder why they carry guns if they are just going to be taken away by a criminal and used against them.
Funny, you would think they would follow their own advice.
April 5th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Our tax dollars at work. What a fool.