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In reply to the discussion: Here is when I bought my first gun [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)You've experienced 3 attempts at home invasion. Were they all in that nice middle class neighborhood?
I'm wondering who painted a target on your back, or why.
I've never owned a gun, and never will. I've never been threatened by anyone except for my first husband. He usually only threatened with fists and boots, after a drinking spree. Once, though, when one of his friends came to stay and left a shotgun in the closet, I got to see the wrong end of it. That might have something to do with the determination I've had to never have a gun in the house.
I never would have shot him, given the chance. I just divorced him.
If I were fearful enough to keep a gun for self-defense, it would have been ineffective, anyway. Raising 2 sons, there never would have been a loaded gun on the premises that it was easy to get to.
I have experienced garage/shop invasion, and theft of tools. It happened twice, in two different states. Both times I was not home. If I had been, I wouldn't have shot anybody. I don't have anything here worth taking a life over.