Re: Finger-Wagging
First off, no I'm not joking.
Secondly, I don't really like people and I'm not a social butterfly, so I rarely have anyone over. Those that I do have over have no clue where the guns are located. And I don't like children, so they're never over. And if a child were to come over, I would re-locate my guns to somewhere out of their reach temporarily. In the 10 years that I've had guns, I could probably count on one hand the number of times that a child came over where I live.
And thirdly - the guns are only needed in a life or death emergency. THAT IS IT. They are not toys. They are not for show and tell. They are not to "settle an argument." These tools are to protect me and those that I love from any crazy that enter my "castle" and threaten grave harm to me or my loved ones.
Oh and yea - the first and last rule of self-defense is to try everything else before using your gun, including calling 911 first! The gun is the tool of last resort, PERIOD. There are horror stories of people who legitimately were in fear of their life, used a gun to kill someone and either the government arrested them (criminal charge) or, the estate of the deceased/wounded person sues (civil). I want to avoid both of those outcomes. If I have to discharge my weapon at someone, it will be absolutely because there was nothing else I could do.
Hell, speaking of weapons in a home or apartment, I have plenty of other dangerous weapons - in my fridge, German 0.5L beer bottles (they weight about a kilo full and are thick as shit). Next to my fridge is two dozen steak knives and butcher knives. I also have two rolling pins, two different canes (not mine, but my partner's and one of them has a nice quad base made of steel), two Boos cutting boards, several (perhaps too many...) loose 3.5" hard drives that can be used both as a ranged attack and melee attack, a vise, a few cordless drills with twist bits usually in them, a reciprocating saw, a circular saw, I have a bottle of bleach, a bottle of ammonia, bottles of whiskey (let's hope it doesn't get down to that, however), a bicycle tire pump, mason jars with both tool bits and food bits (not commingled, of course), a small library of books, three fire extinguishers and a snow shovel. (not all of that is next to the fridge, they're all over the place)
And that's all that I can think of at the top of my mind right now that I can use as weapons before reaching for one of my guns.
So, everyone's home can be dangerous to an intruder, or apparently a "friend" that you have an "argument" with, or vice versa, if you want to consider the tables being flipped against you.
And to the earlier AC - I have one of my two EDCs on me while I'm awake. Usually in a "sneaky pete" or an OWB holster - including when I'm dumping out, with two spare clips on my belt, so I'm covered all the other times.