re: #122 makeitstop

And that unbelievably stupid argument would suppose that a woman went out bar-hopping with a fucking AR-15.

Sheah, happens all the time around here.

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I have a shotgun. When I moved here, the gun shop owner (being a businessman and trying to drum up new business) wanted to see if I would come in his shop and purchase some of his wares. (I’ve been in the shop many times since, but I have never purchased a gun, just shotgun shells.)

He was surprised when asking me about home defence that I said “I have a 12-gage for that.” (There is no police department here other than the county sheriff with one car, and we are near the county line. If the car is on the other side of the county it is nearly an hour away.)

He asked why a shotgun rather than a pistol or something. I pointed out that if I actually had to use a gun for defence and I was awakened in the middle of the night or something, I don’t really need to be able to aim or something in the dark. Moreover, the sound of loading a shotgun is pretty unmistakable.

Since I’ve lived here, I’ve used it once in that capacity (to go to the church across the street to run off out-of-town burglars inside the church at about 4 AM - it’s amazing how loading a shotgun gets the attention of people who don’t really want any trouble).