So when this theoretical bad guy breaks into my house who else is going to have a gun to defend me? My neighbor gonna notice and make it in time? I doubt it. Besides, I will not have a firearm but I will have a samurai sword and I will be hiding in the shadows. Not exactly a liability.
I did not report it...I chose to handle this one myself. It is a personal cheap shot...let Jim defend himself. I can't wait to here what it is he does that is going to make him that much more valuable to his neighbors then I am to mine.
Crispin
My friend, what happens if you and your wife are out one night and you get car jacked? What if after your jacked you quickly realize they plan on raping your wife.... Do you travel with your sword?.... Don't think that is a slim possibility, it happens a lot more than you think..... Florida is not the safest place...... It is estimated that between 1.5 and 2 millions times a year a private citizen in this country uses a gun to protect their selves, does not mean they necessarily shot someone, means a gun was pulled, displayed or used...... Thousands of women a year use a gun to stop an assault that would have led to rape, rape is the most hideous crime that can be done to a woman short of murder or death of a child...
Twice, someone has tried to rob me in my life with a gun, once in a rest stop in Chicago, once in Washington DC, 3 other times I was threatened with violence by a group of 3 or more men at the same time. Did a gun save me each time, no, it happen that I had a boxers that traveled with me when I was working on the road and they did not see the dogs till it was two late.
In DC I happen to have 2 boxers with me when a man came up and told me to give him my money, I was taking pictures of the monuments at night (stupid move on my part), between the man and I was a tree, laying down by the tree out of his view 5 feet away was 2 of my dogs, the 125 lb male boxer and a 65 pound female boxer. They immediately sensed something was wrong, both jumped up and let him know he had a problem, the man took off running, they gave chase till I called them back. Put dogs in my van, drove to an all night grocery store, and bought both of them a t-bone steak...
In Chicago in a rest stop off of an interstate a man approached me as I came out of a bath room, I had a pistol under my jacket, same thing, my 125 lb boxer boxer was sitting behind a wall waiting for me to come out, he again knew something was up and and scared the you know what out of the man who ran to a car and left with a friend....My pistol was in my back pocket with my wallet so it was going to come out if I reached for my wallet...
The 3 other times were in county parks camping while on the road, no weapons displayed, but 3 or more men a lot bigger than me were going to attack me, dogs stopped me from pulling my pistol...
I stopped one attempted rape when I woke up one night to a woman screaming in an apartment complex where I was staying with a friend, I opened a curtain and saw a man trying to pull a woman into a car, in front of the apartment, I had no gun with me at the time, if I had he would have either been caught or shot, but I ran out the door screaming at him to let her go, he let her go and took off in the car, she ran in the apartment I came out of and I gave chase but I lost him in traffic, this was in Tampa...
For anyone to say they have never felt unsafe or been anywhere where they felt unsafe means they have been very lucky.... I have lived in Chicago, St Louis, Tampa, Denver, Lincoln Neb, Orlando, Minneapolis,
Des Moines Ia, Kansas City, and many other small towns in many different states, I have been in every state west of New York/Pennsylvania/Washington DC, and litterly driven tens of thousands of miles across this country over my life time due to my job and my love of exploring America.
One just one vaction I was gone for over 6 weeks, drove over 7,000 miles and covered 9 western states, which included driving from Minot ND to Yellowstone, through Idaho to Washington Cascades to Seattle, south to LA, across to Vegas, north through Utah, back through Idaho, Montana and back to Minot, ......
There are lots of places where I did not feel safe in my lifetime, I almost always had a pistol with me, not always legally, but I had one........
I would rather be judged by 9 than carried by 6.................
I apologize. That clears the air between the two of us. Make no assumptions...I am a doctor. 
