On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:30:50 -0600, David Hartung wrote:
> On 01/03/2013 10:19 AM, Sid9 wrote:
>>
>> "wy" <
w...@myself.com> wrote in message
>> news:2f565218-4e97-4cf2-9cfd-
e42877...@i1g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...
One can lockup a pump action shotgun, or many guns, with something as
simple as a piece of chain or cable and a padlock, and secure it perhaps
to something hard to move. Something like a Corbin Sesamee padlock,
where one can set their own 4 digit combo, allows opening it without a
key in seconds. Yet it's a good quality padlock. Gun safes don't take
any time to open either, although a little harder.
Same lockup thing feasible with a revolver, or an auto-pistol if the
magazine is removed. Of course, there are also commercial gun locks, but
they might not chain it to some heavy object, depending on design.
Some places, the police are 30 minutes or more away. The US is a big
country, with a lot of rural areas. In city areas, there's no guarantee
of response time, or the quality of response.
In most cases where civilians use firearms to protect themselves, all
that's involved is the presence of the gun. Few criminals want to deal
with that, even if they're armed themselves. Most, just want drug money,
or maybe want to rape somebody. They don't need to deal with armed
people for those things when many aren't armed.
OTOH, just a large dog bowl at front and back doors is also perhaps
something that might make a gun unnecessary. Even if one doesn't have a
dog. Or/and a beware-of-dog sign, even without a real dog. A real dog
of any size greatly adds to that...
For that matter, a replica firearm can deter too. I know a friend who
had an unloaded assault rifle during the LA riots that kept people out of
their business... He had loaded guns too.. that would have been more
suitable for shooting in a city environment if absolutely needed. Armed
civilians in that event and others probably saved many billions of
dollars of infrastructure that served people for years after that..
--
Bobby