(January 6, 2014 at 1:35 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(January 6, 2014 at 1:09 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: I have a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun that is used occasionally for trap shooting but whose primary purpose is as a last line of home defense (in my neighborhood this is not paranoid of me). I keep it unloaded and locked away during daytime hours or when I am not home. At night, it's loaded and ready. I doubt it would come to a shootout in the event of a break-in because there is not another sound in the world that would be confused with the sound of a shotgun being racked. That alone would deter all but the most determined intruder/attacker. But if the shit really hit the fan, I'll take a shotgun at close range over a handgun any day. I'd hate to have to shoot someone, but given a dire situation in which it was me/mine versus some predator, I wouldn't hesitate.
What kind of hell hole do you live in!!!!!
Let's put it this way. In the past four weeks, a cop who lives in my neighborhood had his place broken into and ransacked while he was on duty, and a friend of mine was shot twice in his own home by an addict who thought there was something of value worth stealing (there wasn't). I have heard shots fired in my neighborhood several times in the past year.
