I have had a gun for one year now & have pathetically shot it once. We have no shooting ranges around. I am going to check into the next sheriff’s dept. gun safety class for women.
This is my fear; it seems that when someone does shoot an intruder that it is a crapshoot. Will the shooter be found guily of a crime or vindicated? It is scary times we live in, even my liberal mother is starting to acknowledge that something is very wrong in the ghetto culture and that she needs to be very afraid. People are becoming less & less afrid to speak out about the complete thuggery that is going on.
I just got back from NC & my brother & I were at the Asheville mall on a Sunday. It was crowded & we had to park way out. As we parked this super thuggy looking young guy was walking past us & had a smirk on his face; I am not a fear monger, but he looked like someone to be afraid of. By the way, my brother is 6 feet and weight lifts & he was even creeped out by the guy. It’s bizarre to feel threatened so much of the time.
Your FR page doesn’t say what state you’re in.
Try a Google map search for your area with the word, “Gun,” or, “Firearm,” and see who’s close. Then go there and start asking questions.
The owners/operators of almost every gun shop I’ve walked into are more than willing to answer every question I ask.
I know what you mean about being creeped out.
Whenever too many black gang banger types congregate, they change the character of a place.
For example, those in the Washington, DC area know the story of why Landover Mall went out of business. When it opened, it was a beautiful shopping mall. But the clienetele at that mall over the years trended towards black youth, who were not the best customers at that mall. Their presence, along with some “incidents” at the mall over the years, caused more and more shoppers to stay away. Eventually the mall had trouble renting out space, and eventually went out of business.
The same sort of thing is happening at Six Flags America theme park, in PG County near Washington. I know some people in the Washington DC area who won’t go to that theme park anymore due to the threatening clientele. And there have been some incidents there too. My friends would rather make a road trip to a theme park in another state, than go to what should be a nice theme park right in their own backyard.
Of course, an elephant in the room is that people are reluctant to say why they won’t go to Six Flags. But we all know what they mean when they say there is a rough crowd, or other such descriptions, of people there.
Work to get a “stand your ground/castle doctrine” law in your state.
I recently bought a 1.5 million volt rechargeable stun gun and a police grade can of pepper spray for one of my daughters who is going away to school in the Fall. They are the size of and smaller than a cell phone respectively. The loud “pop” the SG makes when discharged would give anybody pause. But even a hat pin and a whistle would be better than nothing.