Posted on 07/19/2016 5:17:25 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Do we really need that wall and do you still plan on locking your doors tonight?
Do you lock your doors at night? If you answered yes to this question, then tell me why? Do you lock them in order to keep out those you don’t know or those who might intend you harm? Do you lock them so strangers cannot enter your house at anytime of day or night? Do locked doors give you a feeling of security? Do you feel locking your doors will keep you and your family safe?
Donald Trump promised to build a wall to protect the borders of the United States. Why has this caused such controversy? Will a wall make a difference in the number of undocumented aliens entering the country? Will it stop terrorists, drug cartels and criminals from creating havoc or will it stop the transfer of children over the border to be sold into sex slavery? Will it be better for the citizens of the United States? Is it really necessary?
No need to out in the country with my German Shepherd and Plott Hound and my arsenal.
Is it necessary? If we put a $Billion into deporting illegals, probably not.
LOL. My back door has not locked for years. Of course, a couple hundred pounds of Doberman sleeps just inside those doors so “Pity the fool”...
Front door yes, back door no. We have a security system, fenced back yard, and 5 indoor dogs.
I lock my doors at night. Anyone who comes into my house uninvited after they are locked is a legitimate target.
It wouldn't take a billion. If we'd enforce existing laws regarding employing illegals and televised a few executives being perp walked out of their offices and arrested a big part of the problem would solve itself.
Every night plus I have a deranged Jack Russell on guard. If they get past the first line of defense then they have to deal with me. An old but armed Vietnam Vet with bad hearing and and one good eye, but it’s my shooting eye! My old 8 shot Ithaca model 37. Not the same shotgun but I carried one just like it in the A Shau.
YES! I live to close to Memphis, the crime capitol of TN. CWW piece is not far out of reach, nor the 12 gauge. Dogs would have a fit too. Even little dogs are good warning systems. I shoot well enough even with poor vision if I can’t grab glasses, I’ll hit what I aim at. I don’t depend on LEO to get there fast enough.
I pity the fools who live in big LIBTARD cities and have to wait 30 mins for a 911 to be answered because the Police forces is 400 Officers down and to busy answering BS calls.
120+ murders just since Jan. this does not include all the stabbings and shootings that have been survived.
To close to my small berg 2 elderly people were murdered in home break in’s. This is highly unusual.
Great minds think alike. My 2 grown boys have warnings NOT to enter unless they sing out who they are. They are the only ones with keys to the house. Even when they just come over the dogs set up a racket.
I lock my doors at night because the sound of a forced entry gives me time to get to the .44.
I don't live in a bad neighborhood. In fact I'd call it above average. So why the security? Well, my wife wants a dog just to have a dog. So might as well have one that is useful, right? The security system gets us a break on our homeowners insurance and also includes smoke and CO detectors - will notify the fire dept. even when we're not home. The firearms are for personal security when I'm not in my good neighborhood. They're also fun to shoot and have the added bonus of making libtards angry and uncomfortable.
I have no delusions about my security measures keeping me or my possessions absolutely "safe." If someone wants my TV bad enough, they are going to get it. They could cut power and cable/phone to the house. They could use a cell jammer to prevent the alarm from calling out via cell. They could bring dog treats. Anyone with a modicum of experience in the field could defeat the standard residential locks on our doors.
But now go back and re-read that list. That's a fair amount of effort and up-front intel work and risk to get a few things that might be worth a few hundred bucks on the street. So in considering my security measures, what they accomplish is to "raise the bar" or the cost of entry or the risk/reward ratio - however you want to look at it. Basically, the idea is to make my home simply not attractive, not worth it.
Same thing with locking my doors at night. A simple thing to keep the punks out. In the last couple of years there have been an increasing number of cars and garages broken into in our area. Obviously someone has moved into the neighborhood with some kids of questionable morals and/or someone's kids have hit those self-centered teenage years and are looking for easy pickings. It is not epidemic, it is rare enough it is obviously just a couple of kids who occasionally happen across something too good to pass up. Eventually they will grow out of it, move, or have an encounter with an angry homeowner that will either scare the {expletive} out of them or end tragically. So for now, a few precautions and this too will pass.
The author did not do a good job presenting a coherent case. She starts and finishes with the same questions, and does not appear to address the answers in the article.
Don't know. Let's quit giving free food, free medicine, free surgery, free dentistry, free housing, free education to illegal aliens. Let's quit giving driver licenses and off-the-books jobs to illegal aliens.
Phil Collins once sang: "it's no fun being an illegal alien".
Let's make that a reality. It costs us nothing; indeed it's a huge reduction in current expenses.
Do these things first. Then we'll talk about how much of a wall, fence, moat filled with punji stakes, whatever, that we actually need.
I lock my doors at night. It’s for the protection of my property and everyone inside of it. If you enter my house unannounced, you enter at your own risk.
Funny story, a few weeks ago we had a home owner meeting. At the meeting, one homeowner proposed that we leave the gates open during rush hour so it is easier for people to get in and out of the subdivision. Our most liberal homeowner declared, “No way.” And in the vote we shot down the suggestion.
Afterwards I asked her why she shot it down. She said she didn’t want uninvited people entering our subdivision. I said it isn’t safe for our children and residents since it opens up the possibilities for crime. She wholeheartedly agreed. I then asked her why that is any different than uninvited people entering the country illegally. I told her she is voting for Hillary but sure acted like Trump.
She hasn’t spoken to me since.
They come out of nowhere at night and will attack anyone they don't know. They are quite large plus, they make enough noise to wake up the whole house causing a Glock to be deployed.
We have three (Larry, Moe, and Curly) and they love to surprise people. Nobody knows how to deal with an attacking goose.
I live in small-town-USA. Don’t lock doors, but have two dogs in the house and a Glock that fires rapidly.
Really don’t have to spend that money. You deny any benefits at all to those illegals and they’ll self deport. In the meantime; they get hurt, here’s a band-aid, sick, here’s an aspirin. No welfare, no housing, no tuition, no schooling, no anything. We’ll apply Mexico’s illegal laws.
We both grew up not far from where we live now in the 40’s and 50’s and we never locked our doors. We always left our car keys in the car. It is a different world now.
Love your post! 2 of the 3 dogs we have in our bedroom are deranged JRT,s. One of them is blind and his hearing is so good I know that no one will be able to sneak up on us.f
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