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The Foreclosure Scam
kyrathaba:
I do keep a .357 Magnum revolver loaded with hollow-points in my car glovebox. The car stays locked, even when I'm at home.
Be careful of that and check the rules of your local municipality. That can be considered carrying concealed, and if you get stopped, no matter if it is or not, it does tend to make the constabulary a bit twitchy.
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In my locale, you have to make two distinct movements to obtain the weapon in the vehicle, in order for it to not be considered concealed. (1) Open glovebox (2) reach into glovebox and get gun... as opposed to concealed being one movement: reach under seat and grab gun.
wraith808:
I simply like to keep available a trump-card for those odd times when negitiations completely break down.
-Stoic Joker (August 17, 2011, 06:44 AM)
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If someone breaks into my house, negotiations have already broken down... ;)
-wraith808 (August 17, 2011, 06:51 AM)
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That doesn't mean you can't lead with a joke:
Wraith: Knock Knock
Burglar: Who's There
Wraith: Jesus
Burglar: Jesus Who??
Wraith: Bang!
-Stoic Joker (August 17, 2011, 07:18 AM)
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Nah, you have it wrong.
Stoic Joker:
Nah, you have it wrong. -wraith808 (August 17, 2011, 09:24 AM)
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O_o Holy Shit! ...Guess the kids pretty handy with a sword.
wraith808:
I've never been in a situation where I thought a gun would help me.
-tomos (August 17, 2011, 07:26 AM)
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And may you never be in such a situation. I personally have no guns, and have defied a county ordinance to have a gun in the house once upon a time. They're too easy to use, too indiscriminate, and take away lot of the personal investment in the violence that you're intending to inflict.
But that said, I've been in a couple of situations where having a gun would have been of use, even though I still refuse to go that route. One being pinned down behind a brick wall as someone fired at me after having jumped back over the wall and feeling the sting of cratering rock impacting my cheek as someone on the embankment below the bridge was breaking into my car that had stalled in the wrong place at the wrong time. At times like that, a thought does go through your head about how having a gun of your own would have proven useful...
Stoic Joker:
They're too easy to use, too indiscriminate, and take away lot of the personal investment in the violence that you're intending to inflict.-wraith808 (August 17, 2011, 12:31 PM)
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:-\ I did not know you were supposed to savor these moments...
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