The right to bear arms saved my life

[Yeager]

check 6 beet1e.

[Toad]

Typical Beet; I'd like to see him cite a US city that "allows" the discharge of fully automatic weapons within the city limits at anything other than a designated firing range.

Don't know of any city that doesn't have an ordinance similiar to this one:

Discharge of firearms within City Limits.

It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any description of firearms whatever anywhere within the corporate limits of the City of West Point, Mississippi, except:

A. by a duly authorized law enforcement or animal control officer when necessary in the performance of his official duties, or

B. by a person in the performance of military duty under military regulations, or

C. by a person acting in actual self defense or for the purpose of protecting life, limb, or property, or

D. by a person engaged in lawful hunting as provided for hereinafter, or

E. by a person engaged in lawful participation at a facility properly licensed to conduct a firearms sporting activity, including but not limited to, skeet shooting, trap shooting, paint-ball events, and similar sporting activities, or

F. by a person engaged in lawful participation at a facility properly licensed for the conduct of firearms training, education, or qualification activities.

[nirvana]

Glad you're alright X, keep your friends S&W with you at all times, hell call up Dirty Harry and have him come over.  He can blow their heads clean off.




Then again there is Chuck Norris....




Seriously though, you need some more friends then Smith $ Wesson.  Even an ex cop with all the training in the world will have difficulty popping 3 a**holes if they even have somewhat good aim (they can take out drive by victims 10% of the time, civilians 80%).  

[Sandman]

I predict that this will either evaporate or end poorly.

Keep your head low and watch your six, Marine.

[JTs]

had almost the same situation.  had 14 ummm recent immagrints (?) from mexico living next door to me. heard a noise in the garage on night thought the cat got locked in there again. when i opened the door one of my nice new kindly neighbors had half his body thru a vent in the wall.  i hit him in the head with a baseball bat and called the cops.  i was arrested for assualt with a deadly weapon. the riverside county,california  da didnt file charges and i was sent home.   after 26 years of living in the same house we put it up for sale and moved to las vegas.   what a country

[FUNKED1]

I try not to live or work around those people.  Get the hell out.

[moot]

I think so too.  
Unless this particular home is meaningful enough that you're ready to die there, soon enough, I'd relocate.
Living well is the best revenge.

[beet1e]

Morpheus - what you say makes perfect sense - in the US, where even hardened criminals such as those described by x0847 have easy access to weapons like the one in the pic I posted, from a movie set in Los Angeles. The most surprising thing in x0847's account was that he was asked by the police to give up his gun - did I understand that correctly?

Vulcan said it first - chicken/egg. X0847 needs his S&W .669 to feel safe at his own house whereas had he been in London, he might have felt as safe as at a Church bingo night with no gun at all.

Mr. Toad, when I said a "city that allows this", I wasn't talking about the firing of the gun. I was talking about the person holding it being allowed to get hold of it in the first place. It's like allowing Iranian ayatollahs to have nukes, but on a different scale. I know that many people here - including NUKE - will relate to this.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

The best defense is to live in a place which doesn't have thugs on rampage. The problem with gun defense is that the thug could also be packing - and he has FAR less to lose than a family man. He thinks manslaughter one as an occupational hazard where to you it's the end of the life as you know it.

So.. the perp always pulls the trigger easyer.

[CHECKERS]

As far as XM needing help with those hammerheads ? The North Hollywood LAPD divison isn't gona do watermelon , uless their is a homicide , thery simpley will not put their officers "at risk " where XM lives, also they could give a watermelon as to what may or may not happen to XM or his neibours untill after the fact !
As for the welfare / government handouts and support of those worthless scrotes ? .... XM's post has discribed it to a TEE ! The fuggin liberal laws here and lack of support and enforcement of community and personal saftey by police is discussting at best. When it comes to getting a feel for what it's like in North Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley ( L.A. County ) and the justic system , just look at the results of the snookie exacution last month, ( the local talent made him (( convicted tripple murder, founder of crips gang )) into national black hero........ ) same with OJ Simpson and his bull watermelon trial ....... XM's ordeal is ..."Just another day in Southern California's  Life Style .........

The only way XM is gona get any help from law enforcement is to call the L.A. County Sheriff, make an appointment with the sheriff's narco squad , and go in person down to the sheriff's station and file a formal complaint with them and ask for help.......Untill he can relocate .......
Even then, it's gona be risky for him to stay living where he is at .
If those "porch monkeys" want him hurt or dead, they will get to him , soon or later . ........

 As for XM having needing a gun or two at his house  ?
  He's gona need more that that to make his problem "go away" ......
 

Sad deal ...

XM......
 I,  like so many others who have watched SFV turn into a getto , understand what your up against ......
 I wish you well ......

  Take Care !

[eagl]

Beetle,

You're saying if he didn't have a gun, and was confronted by 3 large druggie thugs who as criminals that pay no attention to laws MIGHT have guns, and who were basically intent on beating him severely, he would have felt safer?

Dude, can I have some of whatever it is you're smoking?  If he'd been in the same situation in London or anywhere else in England for that matter, at the least he'd have ended up in the hospital after getting assaulted.

[Shuckins]

Beetle,

Just curious, but since you are so strongly opposed to gun-ownership for self-defense or any other non-governmental purpose, why did you go to the shooting range with Lasz when you visited the U.S.?

I can understand curiousity, but that smacks of hypocrisy.

[moot]

He's smoking some toodlepip, with a side of cracking cheerio cookies for the cup of bollocks tea.
That blue thinking cap also doubles as a hermetic device.

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

America is the third most populated country in the world. Gun laws in a country with a 1/3, 1/10, or 1/100 of our population do not work here. There are many areas where crime is so dense the police can't handle it, or where the local police is so far away you'd be dead and stiff long before they got to you.

Some laws work for some cultures, some don't.

[lazs2]

BS beet and vulcan..

beets solution?  disarm everyone... the poor and the old and the young just starting out can just move away to safer neighborhoods...  simply buy a $750,000 (in kalifornia) home and move into it and take a starting wage job or pay for it on retirement fixed income.... if they can't afford it.... well... not beets problem..

vulcan you are being surprisingly hypocritical... you are having black gang and other minority gang problems in canada and they are barely getting started....  you can't deal with em now... wait till either of your lilly white socialist countries starts feeling the 3rd world boogie.  

MT is disapointingly predictable here too...  It's ok to torture animals and to threaten people and gang up on while living off the government and selling/doing drugs so long as the bad guys are colored and the good guys are white because..... can a white guy ever really be the "good guy" when there is even one "brother" suffering under such opression?

I don't care... I feel for xmarine... his life just took a turn for the worst because he refused to be a doormat.... still... he isn't dead or mutilated and that is because of his right to keep and bear arms.   How would he have been any safer vulcan if 3 of the monsters had not been able to get guns and he couldn't either?

Would he have been better off if he had to fight 3-10 gang members with his bare hands agains their bare hands?   Like that truck driver in the LA riots?

I have been in jail and disarmed and I hate to say it but against four big colored guys I really didn't do that good...  lost two teeth as a matter of fact... coulda been lots worse.

The real point is tho that xmarine will just be part of that American statistic the FBI keeps where 1.5-3 million Americans a year use a firearm to prevent a crime from happening.

The people who tortured the cat would torture any of us with just as much glee... they deserve to be imprisoned for life or killed or crippled... they are not really human at this point.... probly will never make it to human.

If I lived near you xmarine I would volunteer to help you watch your place... If more of us did we could take back our neighborhoods from these scum...

The "gangsters" around here are smaller in number and more easily intimidated..  I really feel for you.

lazs