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Old 08-09-2015, 02:25 PM
 
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In my own house? Impractical and uncomfortable. Plus my youngest kids are way too little for gun safety and they always want to get their hands on whatever I have.

The doors and security system is enough for me to retrieve one really quickly before anyone could get in anyway.

I want to add cameras into the mix, but I'm having a hard time finding the time to research a good system for my needs. (I'm an addicted DIY'er).

Your kids are too little for gun safety so you're going to have a gun in every room in the house?
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Old 08-09-2015, 02:38 PM
 
Location: London
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It seems like everywhere I look and see, I'm being pressured to buy a gun...not just one gun, multiple ones. Gun shows all over the place, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and non-stop talk about guns on TV and the radio.

It's like American culture expects me to be carrying around a gun 24/7, and that if I don't own multiple firearms, I'm somehow a second class citizen. Anyone else tired of this?
You're in Wisconsin. Come to the Bay Area, and you won't see any of that.
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Old 08-09-2015, 08:13 PM
 
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merica luvs walmart, suvs and violence. What do you expect. not a nation of hi-thinkers
Yet we are the most powerful country in the World by every measure. And people from every other nation on Earth want to move here. Guess our "low-thinking" freedom oriented society is worth something.
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Old 08-09-2015, 08:38 PM
 
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The more you Libs bleat on and on about some sort of heightened restriction on guns, or a gun-grab......the more people are going to go on gun-buying sprees...............thanks Libs!!!!!!
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Old 08-09-2015, 08:41 PM
 
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Someone would have to be pretty weak wills to feel that much pressure to buy a gun when they dont want one.
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Old 08-09-2015, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Palo Alto
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I went to Peet's this morning and was accosted in the parking lot by two guys who demanded I buy a gun! I couldn't get the car washed unless I bought an Uzi and a thousand rounds.
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Old 08-09-2015, 09:02 PM
 
Location: Lost in Texas
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I went to Peet's this morning and was accosted in the parking lot by two guys who demanded I buy a gun! I couldn't get the car washed unless I bought an Uzi and a thousand rounds.
Man, I just hate when that happens...
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Old 08-09-2015, 09:14 PM
 
Location: NW Nevada
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It seems like everywhere I look and see, I'm being pressured to buy a gun...not just one gun, multiple ones. Gun shows all over the place, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and non-stop talk about guns on TV and the radio.

It's like American culture expects me to be carrying around a gun 24/7, and that if I don't own multiple firearms, I'm somehow a second class citizen. Anyone else tired of this?
I see nothing such as you describe happening. Unless your reading gun related magazines and watching Shooting USA 24/7 on the Outdoor channel. I have no desire to see people who are afraid of guns, or unqualified in whatever way, to go purchase one. I see no flashing billboards anywhere advertising firearms. The only advertising I ever see for guns is in an around shooting related literature and events.

Are you attending shooting events and reading Guns and Ammo magazine without your gun hating pals knowing? Come out of the closet! Free yourself! Don't be afraid of expression! Lol....too funny.
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Old 08-09-2015, 10:00 PM
 
Location: Madison, WI
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You're in Wisconsin. Come to the Bay Area, and you won't see any of that.
I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life and have never seen what the OP is describing...although I haven't been in the rural northern parts of the state much.
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Old 08-09-2015, 10:21 PM
 
Location: The Silver State (from the UK)
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Yet we are the most powerful country in the World by every measure. And people from every other nation on Earth want to move here. Guess our "low-thinking" freedom oriented society is worth something.

I'm Europe (for sure), you will find very few pepole wanting to move to the US.
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