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Originally Posted by Grandpa Pipes
A gun? For Joe Average self defense? Oh, no. Oh, hell no!
There is but one tool that everyone knows how to operate and I mean everybody! That tool is as old as man.
That tool is a..........knife.
I'm never without at least one knife on my person or within easy reach 24/7/365.
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I get the question about twice a month in my shop: Q: "What would the best gun be for me or my wife for concealed carry and home self-defense?
I then ask them
(though it's a perfunctory question, since an firearms-experienced person would not need to ask this question) "How much experience have either of you had with a sidearm?"
Ans: "Side-arm? What does that mean?"
My answer, even if they say
"Yes, I used to shoot a .22 a lot whan I was a kid, and my wife's dad took her out to the range a few times!"
Well OK then, huh? Hunky-Dorry!
I almost always tell them the best solution, in the interest of their own safety and protection, is
NO FIREARM at all! Given that they would probably discharge
(Q: "what does that mean?") it when they didn't really want to, with an unfortunate result, ruining the door of their yuppie stainless steel refrigerator, or they might seriously injure or kill the person living next door (over-penetration with, for instance, a hot .357 Magnum load.....), or have it taken away from them by a real perp...
So what to do, huh? I point them as the 15% Bear Repellant stream-pattern spray
(not those common foggers, which can come back at them! Oh no!) Or there are those
combo pepper spray
and very loud air horns that can really disorient someone. Or a strobing ultra-bright LED flashlite pointed in their eyes, coupled again with rinsing them down with that 15% pepper spray stream
(the streams are very good out to about 15 feet or more!).
Then, all you have to keep handy at home or in your car to go along with pepper spray is a pint bottle of sterilized water mixed with about 5% baby shampoo. (Oh and some heavy-duty 10-12" long plastic tie wraps, just like the cops use!) Then, after you tie-wrap the Ork's hands together behind his back (all hile promising hm that you'll take care of his eyes just as soon as he puts his hands together behind his back!) you will take care of all the residual pepper fluid in his eyes with a simple flushing for a minute or two.
Simple. And... no legal problems with having shot a hole in his knee, when he was just the scruffy and lost pizza-delivery kid knocking too loud on your door. No arguments in court about whether you knew what you were doing or not (Heck; even us "experts" can't always claim
that!).
And, if the perp was serious, he still won't be so happy with being blinded, at chocking and coughing on his own saliva, and on rolling on the floor in agony! Now, if you can't then get the cops there quickly enough...
("When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away...")
...you or your wifey can always go get your pump-action 12ga shotgun from you gunsafe (another topic..) and let him clearly hear you cycling the action: "Kah-Chunka-Click!"
Again, if you already know what you are about, you don't need us to tell you what to get. (Now personally, I kinda like the compact .45ACPs, but always with that pepper spray as one first-call option, and the aluminum bat as another. Can you imagine being hit right across the chest by a rapidly swung alloy bat?
Smackkko! Followed by various sounds of agony associated with multiple fractured ribs or sternum or upper arm or... or...)
Just remember: if
ever you
do shoot someone, then the legal fun begins! And really now; it ain't fun at all!
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