WHY I Carry A Gun In My Home

[ChattanoogaPhil]

One of the benefits of not disarming myself when I walk in the front door is that I'll be armed when I walk back out.
Too easy to forget going in and out of the house through the day. The LCP accommodates all-day everywhere carry real well for me.

 

[Jim1392]

Something rotten in Denmark about that video. Gun in hand upon first going to the door. Camera already rolling and appears to be set on a tripod. Either he antagonized the perp and baited him to bust the door down or its a fake. Too coincidental, something just ain't right.

I agree. As soon as I watched the video I said it was way too convenient that the camera with voice recording was pointed exactly at the front door.

 

[Smoke]

I guess I'll post it again

I agree. As soon as I watched the video I said it was way too convenient that the camera with voice recording was pointed exactly at the front door.

On Thursday morning 6th District Court Judge Robert Naftz sentenced Twain Thomas, 54, to a five-year fixed sentence in the state penitentiary, and 10 years indeterminate on several counts of aggravated assault and attempted murder in the second degree.

On Feb. 22, police were called to the 200 block of South Garfield, where Thomas had been threatening neighbors that apartment complex with a machete.

When Thomas broke into the downstairs apartment of James Cvengros and his girlfriend Kaila Gearhart, Cvengros shot Thomas.

Cvengros' action was ruled as self-defense.

Cvengros had a camera rolling to document the commotion after seeing glass flying from the upstairs apartment onto the cars parked below. He said once he heard unusually concerning noises coming from the apartment upstairs, he started documenting the commotion using his digital camera, not realizing that camera would soon serve as a witness to what was about to take place in his apartment.


Man sentenced for attempted murder | News - Home

 

[bhayles]

Lot's of machete wielding maniacs where you live?

Its not necessary because of "lots". Its necessary because there may be ONE. I don't have homeowner's insurance because "lots" of houses burn down. I have it because just one...mine...might.

 

[USAF385]

I don't always carry while I'm at home, but usually I'm close enough to a gun that I could get to it just as quickly as I'd be able to unholster.

Very often my "favorite if the week" gun will be on the end table next to me on the couch.

I live farther away from a road and am more secluded than 99% of the population, but I still stay aware and alert even while at home.

 

[snowman]

I live farther away from a road and am more secluded than 99% of the population, but I still stay aware and alert even while at home.

Sir,

In my view this is actually a reason TO "stay...alert...while at home". Criminals are less apt to be seen and heard in settings like yours, and I believe that they know that, as a rule.

Good for you.
Andy

 

[3dots]

I carry inside and out every day and feel naked without by trusty sidekick. In this particular situation, I wish the perp had have been combed away. Now he lives free until he can get out and retaliate.

 

[model70hunter]

What did Elmer Keith wear when his pants WEREN'T on??

Ma deuce.........

 

[ameridaddy]

<i>Lot's of machete wielding maniacs where you live?

Not in my vicinity, but they come from outside and find your house</I>
The two animals who killed this family, in a nice neighborhood near me, came from miles away.
2006 Richmond spree murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I even carry my pistol to the bathroom at home.

 

[44R]

I just don't see the point in taking my j frame out of my pants pocket when I come home.

 

[patvince]

I jjust realise how much dangerous it is to live in some part of america today!!
that said, my main door is not in paper.....orr cardboard, and even with an axe the guy would have a lot of trouble to break my door. And if he ll succeed i d get time to call the cops and grab my gun,!
R

 

[TTSH]

I did a thread a few weeks back about who does carry at home and a few people asked "Why would you ever think you need to carry a gun in your home.

Ask the guy in the video

If the doors on my house were that insanely weak... and I knew of, or lived near, a crazed, machete-wielding maniac, I would carry two guns around the house all day: One .45 semi-auto and one 12-gauge defense shotgun.

Better yet, I think I'd just move.

 

[bhayles]

Two reasons:

1. You don't know where in the house you would be if a breakin occurred. Unless you had weapons scattered all about the house you can't count on having one close at hand if/when you need it.

2. Wearing it at home (note I said wearing it, not carrying it) makes it just another part of your clothing, like your shoes. You get more comfortable with it as its not an outside "thing", but a normal part of your dress. If its sometimes there, sometimes not you have to actually think when doing anything with it, the first thinking being "Is it there?"

When its always there everything gone with it becomes simple reflex, reaction.

 

[Harkrader]

I live in a small community that hasn’t experienced a “stranger” murder in the past 37 years. There is not a record of a home invasion, ever.

Still, during the last 17 of my gainfully-employed years I conducted investigations that resulted in people going to prison. One elected to join his ancestors rather than spend time in the grey-bar hotel. His family was quite annoyed at those of us who conducted the investigation, and had made vague but obvious threats. They live 15 minutes away.

A couple others are out of prison and a couple more will be out in the next few years. I believe the danger from them is very low, but we now entertain our 16-month-old grandson here once a week, so I feel justified in being prepared. His parents, our son and daughter-in-law, live with him in another small town with very little history of violence, but commute to a larger one for work. They are both armed at all times and “Don’t leave home without it.”

Further, Wisconsin is experiencing an increasing problem with heroin, and a neighbor is currently awaiting trial for murder as a result of his dealing. Heroin users have little or no control of themselves when they need a fix. I have a close friend who is a medical examiner and she laughs in the faces of the people who say addicts can just say “no.” She has autopsied a lot of bodies. If the users get to the site where they expect to get the heroin and are told they need more money they are as likely to “go next door” as anywhere else, and it ain’t for a cuppa sugar.

I have a cousin who lives in inner Detroit. Her husband was murdered by a man who escaped trial due to lack of enough evidence, leaving her a single mom. She lives across the street from a public park where her children have played since they were little. One is now early-20s and the other late teens, so they rarely go into the park. Good thing, in my view, because there have been frequent fights and even shooting by violent gang members. My cousin is always armed and carried concealed even before she could get a CCW permit. When her children were little and wanted to play in the park, she always went with them and always carried her gun. She says this about carrying and keeping a gun within arm’s reach at all times: “You’re nuts if you don’t.”

I’d like to think I’m not nuts. Yet.

 

[Harkrader]

I see posts, here as well as in other discussions, advising someone to move out of an area perceived as dangerous.

For many people that is nearly impossible. They may not be able to afford a better place. They may be close to work or family, and moving further away would be a hardship.

Even people in better financial condition usually don’t want to move. Home is, well, home. Better to defend than leave, and we all hope for better.

As to modifying a rented place, some landlords get upset at mods they haven’t approved, and will require the tenant to undo them at their own expense. There are passive, removable door and window blocks that can be used, but people who can barely afford bus fare or good food will find it harder to buy accessories. Some, in order to afford a place, will share with someone over whom they have no control. A lot of people are in very complex relationships that leave them vulnerable, but are often the best they can do, given their resources.

The people in the video in this discussion can afford a camera and a gun, so they are likely at least a little above such a vulnerable level, but they still have their limitations which might include being unable to move. Finding ways to be safe in place might be the better direction for them.

Not everybody in danger is in the economic middle class, and even many of them have limited alternatives. Simplistic advice is not helpful.

 

[LimaCharlie]

When I get up in the morning, a 5" 1911 in either .45 ACP or 10mm and a spare magazine goes on my belt. My Sig P938 9mm and a spare magazine goes in my pockets. When I go to bed, the guns go on my nightstand.

 

[cracker57]

Wow some of you must have a lot of guns, i always wonder when I read "no I don't carry in the house but there is always one close to me and I can get to it just as fast as if it were on me" really, when using the bath room, when downstairs, when walking down the hall, when cooking in the kitchen, when getting the mail, when talking to the kids in their room. Quit kidding yourself if you want immediate access it must be on you. Also I did read some where that 100% of home invasions happen in the home, and thats why it goes on in the morning and next to the bed at night.
Stay safe and remember the 4A's Always Aware Always Alert

 

[hannstv]

I don't carry while I am in the house, but my 110 lb. Rottie does.

 

[Smoke]

I am a firm believer that you will do in real life what you practiced in training.

If you aren’t actually training to get to those guns that are hidden all over your home under stress then what you will do in real life is freeze.

 

[getoff]

my 442 is my constant companion... home or away. i do carry a 2nd gun most times and i do have a full size gun available at home. that said my 442 rides in a galco horse hide pocket holster almost always.