I regard fugitive Christopher Dorner as a very remote threat, but tonight I will arm myself

[slackmaster]

If he gets past my Attack Cats, he'll have to deal with a wild-eyed database developer armed with a Ruger 10/22 rifle and a Smith & Wesson .38 Special revolver.

Once he is captured or killed by the police, I will put my weapons back in the gun safe along with my baseball card collection and classic porn mags.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Sleep well.

SDPD has gone back o wants and warrants channel.

[slackmaster]

2. You too, my beloved neighbor.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. This morning hubby was listening to the scanner at work

Sent him a text message.

And I was at the coffee shop...it was unreal. This was quite possibly on of the largest pd mobilizations in the county.

Tonight we were exchanging notes.

[slackmaster]

11. I have a few friends who are police officers. They're good people, and I empathize with them.

Being the target of an insane person who is heavily armed really does suck.

[Hoyt]

3. Sweet/safe dreams.

[Purveyor]

4. Oh stop it, you need to do a 'buy back' with your evil weapons and call 911. Fool! lol eom

[Warpy]

5. Hope you don't fall asleep

[slackmaster]

9. If I fall asleep, the clowns will eat me.

I gave up on sleep a long time ago.

[Electric Monk]

7. You weren't specific enough. What are the barrel lengths and what sorts of rounds are you loading?

Any excuse will do to talk about your guns, eh?

[slackmaster]

12. All of that is personal information

I won't post it here. Feel free to IM me.

[JI7]

8. i live in the LA area , and i'm actually not scared

[kestrel91316]

20. Yeah. I'm in the San Fernando Valley.

This is sort of weirdly fascinating but at the same time sort of a big yawn. I guess if I ran across him I'd be polite and ask to hear his story and make sympathetic noises.

But he won't show up here. Big Bear is FAR. And he's probably in Vegas by now anyway.

[JI7]

22. also i assume i have more of a chance of dying in so many other ways

maybe a month back or so i was driving and they closed off a section of the fwy i was on with a bunch of cops going around searching for some guys who robbed some bank or something. i wasn't scared even then, even with the cops with their guns out going around.

it could just be because of living in the la area we always have crap going on.

i'm get more scared of things like driving while it's raining.

[Enrique]

10. if you see a blue Nissan titan

don't take any chances. Shoot it.

[slackmaster]

13. Naw, I'll just honk my horn at it

Just as I do with every other driver who isn't paying attention to the road.

[KansDem]

54. "...I'll just honk my horn at it"

Wouldn't that invite "road rage?"

[Control-Z]

16. Thought he had torched that.

Or is this a new vehicle since this afternoon?

And no fears on my end. I'm in OC. Can't imagine he would decide to hide or hunt in my neighborhood.

[tblue37]

27. Nah--the blue Nissan is the van that was shot up--27 times, I read--

by cops, wounding two elderly Asian women who were delivering newspapers.

It was a vehicle. It had tires. Apparently that was close enough for them to assume Dorner was in it, so they shot the holy heck out of it--and the women.

[Control-Z]

28. Oh, that's right.

This one has my head spinning. I can't keep up. My daughter and I were talking on the way home from work about the two innocent women. So fucked up. I haven't had a very solid report that covers everything as yet. How are they doing? Do you know? My daughter was pretty upset. I was hoping to give her good news.

[tblue37]

29. One was just shot in the hand. The other in the back--twice, if the article I read

is correct. But I have not read anything that says the one shot in the back has died, so I am hoping the wounds were not life-threatening or paralyzing. Can you imagine how frightened those poor women will be now about ever going anywhere?

[slackmaster]

55. Driving a Titan IS road rage

I'd merely be responding in kind.

[EOTE]

58. I'm not going to play any games with my life.

If I see any blue cars, they better watch out. I launched an RPG at a teal Nissan Sentra this morning, I know teal might be kind of borderline, but I'm not taking any chances with my or my child's life.

[DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav]

14. I don't think Dorner will be gunning for you. It's the LAPD you should be worried about. We should

ban their guns to keep Americans safe.

[slackmaster]

15. Well, their guns do make them 43 times more likely to shoot their owin kids.

Or some such crap.

[Fumesucker]

41. If you have no gun then you can't shoot your kids

QED

[slackmaster]

42. I've got that covered too Fumesucker

I have no kids.

[Fumesucker]

49. I thought you were talking about the general case

Having nearly been shot myself as a kid and also with three friends who actually did get shot it's something I take fairly seriously.

[slackmaster]

52. My dad taught me and my brother basic gun safety at an early age.

Neither of us have ever had a problem with a firearm.

I'm glad you lived to tell about getting shot.

[rightsideout]

17. Be alert and aware

Early in the morning there will be a vehicle driving slowly through the neighborhood. The person in the vehicle will be taking aim at some houses as he drives by . . . to deliver newspapers.

[slackmaster]

19. It's actually a woman now, and I've been tipping her $20 each year

Maybe that will prevent her from strafing my house.

[GObamaGO]

18. I would actually be more concerned about being shot by the police than by Dorner.

[kestrel91316]

21. Yep. They have VERY itchy trigger fingers right now.

[mwrguy]

23. You should be scared

The LAPD might mistake you for a couple of Asian women and blast you with buckshot.

[slackmaster]

38. I could easily be mistaken for a large black man. If I hear he starts driving the same kind...

...of vehicle that I do, I'll go into hiding.

[Moses2SandyKoufax]

24. It seems the LAPD is a greater threat to the public's safety than Christopher Dorner. n/t

[slackmaster]

51. We need Tommy Lee Jones or Christopher Walken or some other badass to take over the investigation.

[mokawanis]

25. For all I know he's gonna steal a Cessna and fly to Wisconsin

I better put the claymores out in the front yard and barricade myself in the basement tonight

[Agschmid]

26. So was that good for you?

I need a cigarette....

[jmg257]

53. Ha - now THAT's funny! nt

[Apophis]

30. It must suck for you to live your life in constant fear.

[apocalypsehow]

33. Hey, you know who your talkin' too? Why, that's one of our intrepid "pro gun progessives"*...

*( )

[slackmaster]

36. It must suck for you going through life unable to appreciate finer things like satire and nuance

[gordianot]

31. As long as you know how your firearms operate that is fine.

Some years ago an escapee from prison raped three women in my home town including the wife and daughter of our family physician who lived several blocks away. In addition he abducted two women. The National Guard, Highway Patrol, several sheriff agencies, including several helicopters looked for him for three days. When I came home to visit the second day my mother was sitting in the kitchen with a short barreled single shot 12 gage on the kitchen table. The hammer was pulled back and there was a slug in the chamber sitting on kitchen table pointed at the side door. Her second round was OO buck shot I freaked we put the shotgun up and I thanked God there was no collateral damage. My brother set up our Mothers self defense strategy we had a long talk afterward in that she did not know exactly how this worked.

Stay safe.

[cbrer]

32. Which magazines? nt

[slackmaster]

34. Factory 10-rounders. This is California.

[NYC_SKP]

43. No. Not THOSE magazines!

The classic porn, in the safe...

[slackmaster]

44. Even the titles would be inappropriate on this forum

[cbrer]

45. Well SOMEONE is paying attention!

Rifle magazines? Ho Hum.

Now vintage porn! There's something to protect!

[JanMichael]

35. We did too! Thank Gawd he didn't make it to NC!

That three thousand plus miles wasn't enough to quell our paranoia....

[Starry Messenger]

37. Did you make it through the night?

[slackmaster]

39. Apparently so.

And I'm mighty hungry.

[madokie]

40. Every time I think about arming myself

I keep remembering a study I once read that said that statics show that a large percent of the people killed with a gun produced the gun themselves.

No guns for this old vet, nosirree

[slackmaster]

46. There wouldn't be much point in calling 911 around here right now

The police are scrambling to save their own hides from that crazed gun control fanatic Stochastic Terrorist.

[madokie]

50. LOL,

I'll just have to stick with my chances rather than with a gun or a phone call tho

[bullwinkle428]

47. They'll find him one of two ways; dead by his own hand, or "dead by his own hand".

[slackmaster]

48. Yes, it's inevitable. The big unknowns are how long that will take, and how much damage he'll do...

...before they get to him.

[CanonRay]

56. I think you have more to fear from the LA cops

especially if you drive a pick up.

[yellowcanine]

57. 20 gauge pump shotgun with number 3 shot ammo is a better choice for home defense.

Relatively tight pattern at 10-15 yards and limited penetration will decrease chance of shooting through plaster board walls but still plenty of stopping power. And even in the dark you will not miss the rabid raccoon in the backyard, a far more likely threat than any intruder.