FBI report shows 10% of active shooters stopped by citizen with a gun.

[Littlejoe]

Can I ask an "out of curiosity" question as well? I understand it's universally recommended to keep your gun locked up in a safe at home. How would one be able to reach it in time in an emergency then?

I keep all my guns under lock and key except my carry weapon. It's pretty much on me at all times, except when I'm asleep and of course in the shower. If there's a home invasion while I'm in bed, I would roll out of bed and draw my gun out from under the mattress. If it were to happen while I'm at home and still awake, I would draw it from my pocket. (I carry my gun in a pancake holster in my front pocket most of the time). I do have a lock box with a back up gun under my bed...but that one WOULD take too long to get to. I like that thing you've got CP!

[Cow Poke]

CP might know the numbers better...but a quick research shows the population of Texas is approx 28.3 million. The gun ownership rate is approx. 35.7% in Texas. That would figure to about 10.1 million gun owners in TX. As of 2016 there have been 1.1 million carry licenses issued. But, that number will continue to increase IMO.

Yeah, I really don't know, but I was in one of the very first classes. I was fully prepared to be in a class with a bunch of "Bubbas", but I was pleasantly surprised to find it was mostly lawyers, a bank president, a couple of small business owners, and... a couple of Bubbas.

One of the reasons I find people NOT taking the class is that they see this as kind of a "gun owner database", and they don't want the government knowing they have guns.

[Cow Poke]

I like that thing you've got CP!

Thanks

Our grandkids stay with us a lot, and I wanted to minimize any potential threat to them as much as possible - it seems to do the job. To my knowledge, they don't even know it exists. And I have my "poor man's panic room" for my wife to run into if I'm not home and something happens - it has guns and a phone in it, and a pushbutton deadbolt.

[Starlight]

And I have my "poor man's panic room" for my wife to run into if I'm not home and something happens - it has guns and a phone in it, and a pushbutton deadbolt.

WOW. That's... wow.

Is this sort of over the top paranoia common in your area? Does everyone have panic rooms? Or is the crime in your area at some sort of post-apocalyptic levels where panic rooms actually are needed and used regularly? Have you considered medication to reduce your extreme paranoia?

[lilpixieofterror]

WOW. That's... wow.

Is this sort of over the top paranoia common in your area? Does everyone have panic rooms? Or is the crime in your area at some sort of post-apocalyptic levels where panic rooms actually are needed and used regularly? Have you considered medication to reduce your extreme paranoia?

It is amusing that the same guy that doesn’t want to visit the US out of fear of getting shot is accusing others of having paranoia issues.

[Cow Poke]

WOW. That's... wow.

Is this sort of over the top paranoia common in your area? Does everyone have panic rooms? Or is the crime in your area at some sort of post-apocalyptic levels where panic rooms actually are needed and used regularly? Have you considered medication to reduce your extreme paranoia?

Calm yourself, Star - it's a CLOSET - a simple closet with a pushbutton combination door lock on it. The MAIN purpose is to have a place to keep my guns and ammo secure and out of the reach of my grandchildren, or anybody else visiting my home.

[Littlejoe]

Calm yourself, Star - it's a CLOSET - a simple closet with a pushbutton combination door lock on it. The MAIN purpose is to have a place to keep my guns and ammo secure and out of the reach of my grandchildren, or anybody else visiting my home.

I would imagine it would also double as a storm shelter in case of tornado etc.

[Littlejoe]

WOW. That's... wow.

Is this sort of over the top paranoia common in your area? Does everyone have panic rooms? Or is the crime in your area at some sort of post-apocalyptic levels where panic rooms actually are needed and used regularly? Have you considered medication to reduce your extreme paranoia?

Do you also call people who buy insurance paranoid? I've spent literally 10's of thousands of dollars on home and auto insurance and have never used it. preparation isn't paranoia.

[Cow Poke]

Do you also call people who buy insurance paranoid? I've spent literally 10's of thousands of dollars on home and auto insurance and have never used it. preparation isn't paranoia.

In fact, preparation is prevention! It's when you don't have car insurance that you get into a wreck!



(I sure hope I don't have to have sarcasm tags for that)

[Cow Poke]

I would imagine it would also double as a storm shelter in case of tornado etc.

EGGzacly, it's an inner closet - not on the outside wall - and surrounded by the bedroom, bathroom, hallway, etc.... an ideal place to hunker down in a tornado or hurricane. It's also where my wife keeps her prescription drugs so the kids don't get into those.

[Cow Poke]

The door on the right is the door from our bedroom to the bathroom. When it's wide open - which it almost always is - you don't even know there's a closet behind that door. Pretty much anything we think could be a danger to our kids is in that closet.

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I love that lockset - unless you put the combination in, the handle just swings free, and since it opens out, you really don't have any leverage to open the door - you'd just rip the handle off.

[rogue06]

The door on the right is the door from our bedroom to the bathroom. When it's wide open - which it almost always is - you don't even know there's a closet behind that door. Pretty much anything we think could be a danger to our kids is in that closet.

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I love that lockset - unless you put the combination in, the handle just swings free, and since it opens out, you really don't have any leverage to open the door - you'd just rip the handle off.

But it has open and very vulnerable hinges

[rogue06]

Do you also call people who buy insurance paranoid? I've spent literally 10's of thousands of dollars on home and auto insurance and have never used it. preparation isn't paranoia.

One has to wonder if he locks his doors when he goes to bed or on a quick trip to the store (I'm old enough to remember when it wasn't uncommon to leave them unlocked), or ever lock his car doors.

[Goulette]

WOW. That's... wow.

Is this sort of over the top paranoia common in your area? Does everyone have panic rooms? Or is the crime in your area at some sort of post-apocalyptic levels where panic rooms actually are needed and used regularly? Have you considered medication to reduce your extreme paranoia?

Everything is bigger in Texas. Including crime.

[Cow Poke]

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But it has open and very vulnerable hinges

Actually, those hinges are the type that have interlaced "teeth", where, even if you removed the pins, the hinges themselves are inter-meshed.

Like below, but not quite as beefy...

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It is, after all, a "poor man's panic room".