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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 11:25 PM Original message |
Homeowner takes a shot at burglar |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. I bet he'll think twice before trying to steal! |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. When are these crooks going to learn that "stuff" is NOT worth dieing for. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 11:34 AM Response to Reply #2 |
19. When are gun owners going to learn stuff is not worth dying for? |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 11:38 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Sorry but one is predicate on the other. Your logic path is broken. |
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Caliman73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 04:08 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Stuff isn't worth dying for...your family however is worth protecting by any means. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 04:20 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. If you are too much of a wuss to shoo off some vagrant then ends up in your garage without a gun |
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Caliman73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 06:59 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Ok there tough guy... |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-02-09 07:15 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Yeah those weak little ladies, right? They're not strong enough to yell GTFO my garage assholllllle! |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-02-09 07:57 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Yep. That good ol yelling. That stops rapists and murderers in there tracks all right. |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 01:01 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Standard advice is, if attacked, to shout "fire" |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 06:12 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. She wasn't being raped or murdered. Her garage was being robbed!! |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 01:59 AM Response to Reply #39 |
49. At three in the morning? |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:31 AM Response to Reply #49 |
58. Be advised: Burglar was entering open garage. |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 02:18 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. Yes, so 'open' that he had to crawl under the door.. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 02:31 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. Breaking & Entering is a incorrect term. |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 04:53 PM Response to Reply #58 |
63. Partially open, with someone visibly present inside |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 01:03 AM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Why "will [it] not end well"? |
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Caliman73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 01:25 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. It ended pretty well for the woman. |
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yay (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 01:39 AM Response to Reply #31 |
37. Just a quick question for you. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Then you use the bat. But you won't have to. Burglars usually just want to steal your shit and leave |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:32 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. "use a bat" you say. So you replace one deadly weapon with another? But |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:20 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. A bat doesn't accidently go off when your son and his buddy find it one day |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:36 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Great deflection on the topic! Typical. Care to answer the questions I posed? |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 07:12 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. Either you guessed correctly or I missed the questions. |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 12:35 AM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Perhaps you missed the question. Go up-thread a little. |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 05:39 PM Response to Reply #46 |
65. Here it is again. THESE are the questions you've not answered. That you "missed" |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #65 |
71. I may not be understanding the question fully but |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 02:42 AM Response to Reply #71 |
74. So you are advising people to attack a gunman with a bat. I think we'll ignore that advice. |
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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 08:15 AM Response to Reply #71 |
76. on "replaceable objects" |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 06:48 PM Response to Reply #71 |
77. So your advice is pacifism, compliance and hope for the best? |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 07:02 PM Response to Reply #71 |
79. So what advice would you give this woman? |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 06:39 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. what about the small or the infirm standing up to the strong? |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 07:11 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. It depends. In a mugging or armed robbery, law enforcement professionals all agree: |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 12:34 AM Response to Reply #45 |
47. So rape is like the weather? You can't do anything about it so |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #47 |
55. What does rape have to do with this? |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #55 |
64. I lot really. I whole lot. Too bad you cannot make the connection. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 01:02 PM Response to Reply #64 |
72. Really not a good strategy to prove to a doper that is mugging you that you will win. |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 02:40 AM Response to Reply #72 |
73. That's really funny, Do you write comedy for a living? |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 06:52 PM Response to Reply #72 |
78. So you want to hope for the best from someone that you say |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-09-09 07:03 PM Response to Reply #72 |
80. Nice deflection of my pointed question about rape. What would you advice. . . |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 07:46 PM Response to Reply #55 |
67. So you think people are raped because they fight a robbery? If so you are an idiot. |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 03:14 AM Response to Reply #45 |
50. If you are threatened with a deadly weapon... |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #50 |
56. Am I just supposed to take your word for it because you sound so official-like? |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 02:23 PM Response to Reply #56 |
61. *snort* You say that.. |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 08:26 PM Response to Reply #56 |
68. See you in the next cell, then |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 08:16 AM Response to Reply #45 |
52. I'll tell that to my friend Mason |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #52 |
57. One to two million people would disagree with me on healthcare and civil rights too... |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 11:50 AM Response to Reply #57 |
59. What about Mason? |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 08:48 PM Response to Reply #57 |
69. Whoa, where's that fishy smell coming from? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 09:32 PM Response to Reply #45 |
70. Um in most states you do "have the right to just shoot people" |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 08:41 AM Response to Reply #41 |
53. Of course he would |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 08:45 AM Response to Reply #31 |
54. It ended great for the lady in the story |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 07:44 PM Response to Reply #31 |
66. It ended perfectly well in this situation. I guess that proves your bigotry wrong. |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-06-09 07:45 AM Response to Reply #28 |
51. Good luck with all that |
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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 08:10 AM Response to Reply #28 |
75. What the hell are we supposed to use man? Harsh language? |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. Oh, looky- Dave is posting his scary stories again |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 11:56 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Just have to balance all the fear you try and spread. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 11:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Give us some more of that projection! |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 12:01 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I appreciate the new quote. I'll start using it real soon. |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 10:57 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. This from the person that said it should be illegal for anyone under 18 to touch a firearm. |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-30-09 11:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. The criminals should definitely be afraid. At least in the US, not so much where you live. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 12:04 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Let me speak frankly here- you asked several times before, so I'll answer |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 12:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. That's honestly just laughable. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 12:16 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. The simple fact is |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 12:24 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. In what way am I proliferating firearms? |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 12:38 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. You know if you are going to make an accusation you should back it up. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 09:22 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Once again, correlation is not causation. |
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TPaine7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Not to mention that the "epidemiological community" |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 01:48 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. It doesn't matter. He won't be able to cite either one LMFAO!!! |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 11:02 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. That is NOT a fact but your irrational fear of an object. |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 10:59 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. So anyone that keeps a first aid kit in their car is in fear? No they |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 10:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
14. If you don't go breaking into occupied homes, you have nothing to be afraid of |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 10:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Oh looky, guess who jumped in. |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 02:49 AM Response to Original message |
23. Scary for the woman. I'm glad she kept her cool and defended her family. |
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vincna (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
25. She needs to spend more time at the range |
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Caliman73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 03:01 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Perhaps, but I think the story ends better when the woman and her family are safe |
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vincna (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 03:38 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. You are, of course, correct |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-02-09 01:13 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. As over 90% of defensive gun uses each year are. |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-02-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Good impulse control on her part, too |
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yay (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
38. She did a good job here |
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