[at-l] weight/use efficiency & Guns

[shane@theplacewithnoname.com (Shane Steinkamp)]

Off topic, but in the same vein...

In the major rooms of my home, I can always put my hand on a loaded weapon.
This is a direct result of many stories, but especially this one:  A man was
fatally stabbed in his home by an intruder.  His wife walked in on this, ran
upstairs with the perp right behind her, grabbed the shotgun out of the
corner in the bedroom, stuck it right in the perps face and pulled the
trigger.  The shotgun was not loaded.  She was brutally beaten, raped, and
stabbed.  She lived, but if the gun had been loaded...

As another note, all the guns are placed in such a way that kids can't get
them - even if they knew where they were.

Shane

> This is precisely why the only registered gun owner in my house
> (my wife -
> the native Texan - she says it's a birth right or birth
> obligation thing... I
> don't get it) has been convinced after much discussion that the
> gun and ammo,
> while available to her in separate locations on her side of the bed
> (locations unknown to me or our daughter) are not to be maintained in a
> combined status.  If she ever hears a noise downstairs of
> concern, it will be
> my job to go doiwnstairs and attack the perp with my one wood while she
> loads... read that I'm the sacrificial lamb, but it beats the
> alternative.  I
> suppose she could still pistol whip me by accident, but it's less likely
> she'll shoot me... at least by accident.
>
> Black&blue
>
> In a message dated 01/30/02 11:05:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> icw39@ncfreedom.net writes:
>
> << True story - stated here not to further an agenda, but just as a
>  personal fact situation that occurred recently.  Happily married couple
>  living in a town in Georgia; wife is the gun expert - always sleeps with
>  loaded pistol close at hand on nightstand; husband got up to take a leak
>  in the bathroom [you probably already know where this is going]; on the
>  way back to his side of the bed, he runs into the dresser - wife wakes
>  up - sees shadow right near her - still half asleeep the only thing that
>  registered was danger - she grabs her pistol and fires one fatal shot to
>  his head;  >>
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