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Would you like to have a gun?

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  • #62
    ballyharpat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭ballyharpat


    I'd have no problem using a gun on an intruder, have had to physically kick someone out before -on more than one occasion-and had no problem using extreme force, had to use a knife on a guy once and didn't like the feeling when it went into him.....
    I wouldn't like a gun, with the crazy women I have dated, I know that one of them would end up using it on me..... :/


  • #63
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Mr. G wrote: »
    No but I'd like to be legally able to shoot our neighbours alarm. It's been going off a lot recently.

    You don't need to shoot it, you want to insulate it :

    http://www.tec7.ie/products/pur7


  • #64
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    ballyharpat wrote: »
    I wouldn't like a gun, with the crazy women I have dated, I know that one of them would end up using it on me..... :/

    Could be preferable over the aul knife and garbage disposal for the crown jewels :P


  • #65
    ballyharpat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭ballyharpat


    wexie wrote: »
    Could be preferable over the aul knife and garbage disposal for the crown jewels :P

    Made me laugh and cringe at the same time...


  • #66
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    whirlpool wrote: »
    Imagine it. The middle of the night, you're sleeping in your bed, when you're woken up by a burglar in your room with a baseball bat. The burglar threatens you.

    Maybe your young daughter is asleep in the next room.

    You don't have a gun near your bed.

    Imagine it.

    Now imagine if you did have a gun near your bed.

    Would you rather have a gun or not have a gun in that situation?

    The Poll question is and the main question of this post is Would you like to have a gun?
    I have a gun so how do I vote :)


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  • #67
    yoajing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭yoajing


    Honestly, I think it would do more harm than anything else.


  • #68
    moc moc a moc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭moc moc a moc


    Blay wrote: »
    if I had the money etc. I'd have 5/6.

    What are you going to do with five sixths of a gun?? :confused:


  • #69
    IamMe33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭IamMe33


    2011 wrote: »
    As a keen target shooter I have firearms in my home.
    As with all of the people that I shoot with my firearms are disassembled and securely stored. I do this not only to comply with the law but also because I have children in my home and to ensure that criminals can't gain access to my firearms.
    This means that even if I wanted to use my firearms against an intruder it would not be possible as it would take too long to access more than one safe, assemble and load.
    If I felt I needed a firearm for protection in my home I would move.
    Bepolite wrote: »
    I really like guns, I enjoy shooting. There is absolutely no place for them in the home as you describe. Broken down in a proper safe is one thing, under the pillow/near the bed? You'd have to be a complete moron. What more likely is your young daughter gets hold of the gun one day and kills herself.

    This.

    US guntards always trot out this vigilante-protection-of-loved-ones fantasy to justify keeping guns in the home, but unless they are safely under lock and key as described above you aren't going to be able to access and assemble it in time.

    Rather than flourish it during a home invasion, the more likely outcome of the loaded-gun-beside-the-bed scenario is young daughter finding it while rooting about, as children do, and playing with it. Best case scenario - it would go off and only put a hole in the house. Worse case scenario - gun goes off and she or a playmate she is showing it off to is killed.

    This scenario is played out again and again in the US where private gun ownership is common.


  • #70
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    IamMe33 wrote: »
    Rather than flourish it during a home invasion, the more likely outcome of the loaded-gun-beside-the-bed scenario is young daughter finding it while rooting about, as children do, and playing with it.

    can't even keep fecking babyoil in the nightstand anymore without having to answer awkward questions : daddy has very dry skin on my elbows darling :o


  • #71
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    No way. I'd only go down and use it on the neighbours' kids/skangers yelling on the street/someone's house alarm.

    I have a selection of kettlebells behind the door, 4 locks on the front door, and a ferocious cat. Actually, the cat is timid and useless, but he wakes us both up everytime he hears a leaf drop.

    Realistically if I had one, the cat would wake me because he had a nightmare about spiders, I'd shoot myself with the shock and then no-one would be able to get through the front door as I bled out.

    Also, guns scare the sh*te out of me.


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  • #72
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    moc moc a moc wrote: »
    What are you going to do with five sixths of a gun?? :confused:

    shoo them.


  • #73
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    I'd love one. But as has been said, only useful against intruders if kept beside the bed, where my little girl could find it.
    I would sooner have a can of pepper spray. Non lethal, which has a couple of benefits. If I mistakenly thought I had an intruder and got a member of my family, they would recover well enough. If I did get an intruder, it would give me time to grab a torque wrench and go to town on him.
    I wouldn't mind a decent air rifle for getting a few rabbits, though.


  • #74
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    pablo128 wrote: »
    I'd love one. But as has been said, only useful against intruders if kept beside the bed, where my little girl could find it.
    I would sooner have a can of pepper spray. Non lethal, which has a couple of benefits. If I mistakenly thought I had an intruder and got a member of my family, they would recover well enough. If I did get an intruder, it would give me time to grab a torque wrench and go to town on him.
    I wouldn't mind a decent air rifle for getting a few rabbits, though.

    They have them on eBay, cheap enough, I'd know. Missus not too happy with you?


  • #75
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    They have them on eBay, cheap enough, I'd know. Missus not too happy with you?
    ?? I'm guessing I posted a double entendre that went over my head!:pac:


  • #76
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    They have them on eBay, cheap enough, I'd know. Missus not too happy with you?

    You can't just buy an air rifle off ebay can ya? Are they not licensed as well?


  • #77
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Yes, they are. Anything firing a projectile with a muzzle energy over one joule is a firearm and licensed as such.


  • #78
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,199 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    wexie wrote: »
    You can't just buy an air rifle off ebay can ya? Are they not licensed as well?

    All air-rifles in Ireland have to be licensed regardless of muzzle energy, unlike the UK.


  • #79
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    wexie wrote: »
    You can't just buy an air rifle off ebay can ya? Are they not licensed as well?

    I thought he wanted a Rabbit for the missus.


  • #80
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Who needs a gun when you can dress up as a sexy rabbit, beguile the intruder, and then whack him over the head with a heavy frying pan while his guard is down.


  • #81
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    Who needs a gun when you can dress up as a sexy rabbit, beguile the intruder, and then whack him over the head with a heavy frying pan while his guard is down.

    hmmmmmmjessicarabbit.....


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  • #82
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    Who needs a gun when you can dress up as a sexy rabbit, beguile the intruder, and then whack him over the head with a heavy frying pan while his guard is down.

    You'd be screwed if a female burglar comes for you.


  • #83
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,465 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Don't have a gun. But i most definitely want one.

    I substitute with a locked bedroom door and a wood axe and a combat knife beside the bed.


  • #84
    Shanotheslayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Don't have a gun. But i most definitely want one.

    I substitute with a locked bedroom door and a wood axe and a combat knife beside the bed.

    Do you live in Irish equivalent of Kompton? Jesus.


  • #85
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    You'd be screwed if a female burglar comes for you.

    PHWOOOOOAR.. screwed by a female burglar.


  • #86
    murray.eoghan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭murray.eoghan


    I agree with a previous post that says, the gun should be disassembled and put into different locked safes. I think i would just have an airsoft gun to make the lad sh!t his pants. As well as the real one locked up in the safe :)


  • #87
    Padkir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭Padkir


    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    I don't really feel that unsafe in my own home to warrant the buying of a firearm. And having a gun just lying by your bed in the unlikely case you become the victim of a home invasion? That just seems somewhat negligent, honestly.

    I don't need to be careful, I got a gun.


  • #88
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    Nah, I'm quite comfortable with the size of my penis.


  • #89
    RenegadeDisco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭RenegadeDisco


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Don't have a gun. But i most definitely want one.

    I substitute with a locked bedroom door and a wood axe and a combat knife beside the bed.

    What will you do if there is a fire in your house and you can't get out cause you've locked the escape route??


  • #90
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,881 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    If you don't feel comfortable with a firearm, so be it. At least you know you're not comfortable with them, and you're making an informed/intelligent decision.
    Bepolite wrote: »
    I really like guns, I enjoy shooting. There is absolutely no place for them in the home as you describe. Broken down in a proper safe is one thing, under the pillow/near the bed? You'd have to be a complete moron. What more likely is your young daughter gets hold of the gun one day and kills herself.

    My daughter will be doing well to get at mine. It's in a quick-release safe. Unless she does a James Bond thing and manages to replicate my fingerprint, which is, I think, unlikely, as she's five years old, she's going to have some trouble accessing it.
    This scenario is played out again and again in the US where private gun ownership is common.

    So are other scenarios, which have other outcomes. Guess which is more common.


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  • #91
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Who needs a gun when you can dress up as a sexy rabbit, beguile the intruder, and then whack him over the head with a heavy frying pan while his guard is down.
    Tail Docker wrote: »
    You'd be screwed if a female burglar comes for you.

    Amazing to think there's almost certainly already porn out there somewhere catering to this exact scenario.

    What a time to be alive.


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