ChicagoBlue
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I'm just wondering how you got past the security system connected to the Police 911 system and the dog. Are you the Pink Panther?
Listen, it is clear you will continue to try to create scenarios, so why bother? I have done as much as I know to help make a safe home for my wife and family. I don't have to answer to you.
In addition, I've tried my damnedest to help people understand what they find difficult to understand about American gun culture, even though I staunchly oppose much of it. It is clear I have become the face of the NRA for many of you and that is the furthest thing from the truth. I have tried to provide context and information, and, in some instances, be the Devil's Advocate against wild accusations and misrepresentations.
So, I'm quite happy to own a gun, am trained to use it, and regularly go to the range to practice my marksmanship. I have a Marksman designation from Federal authorities, so I'm not much interested in your John Wayne scenarios and mentality against my gun ownership. I have it to protect me from the other 365,000,000 guns in this country that might one day be used to harm me. I have no desire to use it outside my home or workplace, but if faced with the deadly consequences of an altercation, I would. I can live with that. You don't need to, and I'm glad for you. I didn't create American gun culture and I, too, struggle with the notion that over 200 years later we have gone from muskets to semi-automatic bump-rifles firing at 10 rounds per second within the supposed Constitutional definition of our collective rights to gun protection. I think it is nonsense. I don't own an AR-15 and have no interest in buying one and modifying it legally to have a bump stock to make it automatic. It is not why I have a weapon. However, I live in an area of $600,000+ homes with nice cars and parks and trees and upper middle class people with stuff. That is a burglars prime market place. Like many of my neighbors, I have a home security system and a dog that barks at people who approach the house. I also happen to have a firearm that I know how to use. It is safely locked away and my kids don't know how to get to it and they have no desire to get to it. My son is 19 and he is as good of a shot as I am at the range, so I would have no qualms about him using it, but he doesn't know how to access it, either. He has only ever seen it loaded at the range.
So, in short, I have no desire to engage in the "gun debate" with you or anyone else overseas. I live here in the US and it is real. I have done what I feel is prudent to protect myself and my family, including the best training available to civilians in the US. I don't have to answer to you or anyone else about those personal decisions. They are legal and my actions go far, far beyond anything I need to do to be a gun owner in the US, which is yet another reason I can say without equivocation, I am a responsible gun owner...who will kill you if you threaten me or my family with violence. The end.