Told you it would happen!

I have been criticised(elsewhere) fom not using my real name on a forum. My reply was "Sure I'll start using my real name as soon as I get finished installing the spot light on my roof to make it easier for the crooks to find my house".
Stickers, signs and anything else that identifies you and your place of residence as a gun repository are IMO a very bad idea.
Additionally: We have no way of knowing who may be cruising this forum just looking for a likely house to break into and rob.
Jim
 
Or you could say that all these forums talking about this gave someone an idea. A self fulfilling prophecy

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No bumper stickers or window decals related to firearms on my cars. I do not own any hats or shirts either. There were 20 or so cars that were broken into in a town I lived in, most had either a purse or money that could be seen on the front seat so lots of broken windows. The police caught two people in the act.
 
whitestang said:
No bumper stickers or window decals related to firearms on my cars. I do not own any hats or shirts either.
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I have only one ball cap that I wear, got it at Disneyland about seven years ago. The patch is emblazoned with

"Goofy's Garage
We goof it up every time!"​

Sort of goes with the goofy grandpa image I have perfected. Looking/acting/sounding like a tough guy is not "concealing" your capablities.
 
I don't leave guns in my car very often and only have an NRA sticker in the back window. I do wear NRA hats often and a couple NRA tee shirts. Only time I was ever burglarized was in 2004 when my front door was kicked in while wife and I were at work. Lost 6 guns + some of the wife's jewelry. That marked police car in my driveway everyday was a clue to were to find guns.
 
I always look at the cars with the Apple stickers and wonder how long it takes for their cars to get broken into or they get mugged getting out of the car...

Around here in Socal there was a period of cars getting marked when parked outside of ranges.

Got to be careful and aware...
 
When businesses start adding me to their advertising budgets, I'll consider wearing/displaying their logos. Till then, . . .
 
I have a license plate frame that lists my school (Go, Heels!) and that's it. I'm of the persuasion that I don't advertise my politics or personal beliefs. I just go through life trying to act like the gracefully aging soon-to-be-71-year-old that I aspire to be. Beyond me, no one needs to know whether or not I'm armed, that I'm a rock-ribbed conservative with predictable values, that I am a rabid 2d Amendment supporter or that I don't much care for the politics, values and standards that seem to be infecting our society.
 
Maybe should take all the stickers we have and stick them on the vehicles of politicians whose are against the 2nd Amendment.
Note that I am not suggestion or recommending or encouraging thieves but of they are going to do it anyway why not guide them to vehicles of folks who seem to think it is a good idea.
Two things might happen, one the politicians might take note and maybe change their stance and two the criminals may learn that the stickers don't necessarily translate to successes.
 
No stickers, decals or signs on my car that would indicate I am a gun owner.
Only decals are on the inside of my gun box.
I have noting to advertise to the outside world.
Jawge
 
I'll admit that many years ago, when I first joined the NRA, I took pride in plastering my cars with NRA stickers and other pro-gun material. It didn't take long, however, to make me realize that this was not going to change the mind of any anti-gunner, and did make my cars more attractive targets for thieves (or for vandalism by strident anti-gunners). So I removed the stickers, and haven't used one since.

This reminds me of when I grew up in New York most physicians received special license plates that started with "MD". It did work at preventing getting parking tickets when illegally parked, I guess because the LEO's thought maybe the doctor was on an emergency call. But later it became an easy target for drug addicts who thought possible a physician would have narcotics left in their car. I don't know if "MD" plates are even available in NY anymore, but you sure don't see any.

One of the reasons concealed carry works as a deterrent is that the criminal does not know who is, and who isn't carrying. A few folks carrying might be enough to create a sense of uncertainty by a large number of criminals. Advertising who is the gun owner and carrier just defeats that effect. The only stickers on my cars now are the ones from my insurance company, USAA, which are a subtle sign that I am/was a military officer. Sometimes that elicits a friendly comment from a fellow military retiree who sees the stickers. I doubt that common criminals have any understanding of what a sticker that says "USAA" means.
 
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