Warning stickers - Yes or No?

[Shootist1954]

What is your opinion of a warning sticker on your house window, such as: HAVE GUN WILL SHOOT!?

Some believe it's an invitation for trouble/thieves, etc. Others believe it's a good warning and deterrent.

Roger

 

[Cavere]

I think it's a bad idea. You're more of a target when the house is empty and if they are brazen enough to come in still they'll most likely be armed themselves.

 

[Arik]

No stickers for me. Most of the time no one will see them.

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[Comrad]

I don't put stickers on anything ever.

 

[Moonman]

Simple answer-------------STUPID!

 

[pownal55]

No stickers here, I would rather let it be a surprise.

 

[Old cop]

No stickers on the home or car. Why surrender the element of surprise and invite someone to break into your home or car?

 

[weatherby]

What is your opinion of a warning sticker on your house window, such as: HAVE GUN WILL SHOOT!?

Some believe it's an invitation for trouble/thieves, etc. Others believe it's a good warning and deterrent.

Roger

Well I don't wear a sign saying I'm carrying so I don't feel my house should either

 

[SMSgt]

A good prosecutor sees "premeditation."

 

[Steve in Vermont]

Even if you don't have an alarm system get a couple of stickers indicating your house is protected by ( ADT, whatever). And/or a "Beware of Dog" sign. You can even get a length of heavy chain, a snap lock on the end, and an old water dish. Put this outside where it's clearly visible. Few buglers will stop long enough to check out such a house.

 

[Engine 21]

No stickers, no advertising /I have weapons/protected by S&W etc. IMO it's just advertising what you don't want people to know. The dog warning and a large water dish along with a lock on the fence gate is good advice. However, if you live in a state with snow - no paw prints in the snow tells it all. The big defference is who wants to get in your home - kids or career criminals. You have to be prepared for both. I've been thinking I might get a Honey Badger - that should cover the back yard at least.

Seriously, I agree with Steve in Vermont.

 

[novalty]

What about a sticker that reads: "Mother-In-Law Inside" ?

 

[OLDSTER]

NO stickers for me. Has nothing to do with thieves and such; I just try to keep from advertising to any potential drive-by anti gun-types.

 

[Natsmith77]

Never advertise something you aren't willing to sell or have stolen.

 

[LL617]

No stickers.

We have dogs. Anyone who breaks into a house with dogs is already looking for trouble, I think.

I personally discourage showing or demonstrating anything around the house that indicates that we might have some type of weapon inside.

I don't tell people that I carry, either, and have stopped talking about having fun target shooting except in private.

 

[jlrhiner]

Occasionally, when I'm bored, I'll put my sign up that says "There are NO Guns in This House!!!".

Then I hide in the bushes. So far, no takers.

 

[jlrhiner]

And now you all want to come over and sit with me, don'cha?

 

[novalty]

Never advertise something you aren't willing to sell or have stolen.

Wish you could get that across to the country boys up here with the snowmobile manufacturer stickers that take up the whole rear window of their pickup truck. Yes we get it, you like Artic Cat, Skidoo, Polaris. Or the rice rockets with huge audio manufacturer stickers in the window--good idea letting people know you have Rockford Fosgate, Kicker, etc speakers in your car--cars never get broken into.

 

[amazingflapjack]

Alarm company stickers; maybe an NRA sticker, but any of that "I'll get you" stuff just telegraphs your punches. A well secured home is the best message to a calculating thief, but a nut job isn't going to be put off by anything if he is determined. JMO. Flapjack.

 

[JenniferG]

Back when I was in High School I remember the guys that had all the decals on their windows of all the parts they had in their souped up cars. A friend pointed out to me that is the menu for the "Midnight Auto Supply Store".

 

[Lost Lake]

A pro already knows what you have and a nut job doesn't care, so why advertise?

 

[Alnamvet68]

No warnings, no stickers, no free advertising, no foolin'! Surprise and shock on the face of a dooshnozzle who just got a mug full of #6 shot is best savored offensively.

 

[kozmic]

My friend put a sign in his front window a few years back that said "Guitar sales and lessons". Two weeks later someone broke into his house and cleaned out his entire guitar collection.

The only lesson provided was to to him!

God gave everyone common sense. Just some aren't smart enough to use it.

 

[russp1]

I thought about one of the "we don't call 911" signs with a picture of a gun on it and decided it was a bad idea. Not even sure about an alarm company sign; does it tell them to go away or just that they need to bypass the alarm first?

 

[retarmyaviator]

In my part of the country that thought goes without saying.

 

[Shootist1954]

I agree on the gun and similar warnings and NRA stickers. And on good locks.

Our family was in the burglar alarm business for 53 years and my thought on an alarm sticker/sign is that the sticker/sign in and of itself is 90% of the protection, unless people work from the inside.

Roger

 

[Doug M.]

"No trespassing" signs, a big fence with padlocked gates, a "work dogs - do not enter" sign, an unwelcoming demeanor, and maybe a really big pile of used dog food indicating to the observant the size of at least of the resident dogs. Nothing that would tip off others that you are armed, or would use force, etc.

 

[-db-]

No advertising. I was mad the other day when an eBay purchase, a rather large heavy box, arrived and the dimwit seller had "gun parts" handwritten in big bold script on the mailing label. Now the somewhat shady mail carrier knows more than I want him knowing about me (not to mention that's just begging for the box, or any future ones, to end up "lost" in the mail system).

 

[cmort666]

What is your opinion of a warning sticker on your house window, such as: HAVE GUN WILL SHOOT!?

A bullet in the head is a much more effective warning and a lot harder to ignore...

 

[Rogue686]

I think it's a really, really, really bad idea. It just advertises you own firearms to burglars, and an uppity prosecutor will take you to count if you ever have to defend yourself and show that picture to the jury.