bersaguy

I have not been gun shopping for some time. I might need to do a litle just to see whats out there I might can afford...............

Yes he did get lucky. Probabtion does not teach them anything. All it might do is stop them from doing what they were doing till it's over and many times you hear on the news that the perp violated their probation and was arrested again. The only real way to stop a burglar and home invaders is like the young lady in my previous post. A 9mm or larger, does not have to be a Glock, just any large caliber will work if used properly!!

A friend of mine lived in a subdivision that was having a rash of home breakins and they thought it was kids doing it until one day a young lady was home sick from work and her car was in the garage when they kicked in the back door while she was laying down in a bedroom in the back of the house. She heard them talking and call 911 as she quietly got her Glock 9 mm out of the night stand. She didn't say anything to the 911 operator but theoperator heard all the shots and told the police that shots had been fired. She said later that she was in fear for her life till she got the Glock and then she was in fear of their lives. Her worst fears came true when two big men came running into the bedroom. She never hesitated. she began popping caps and both men went down and a third broke and ran and a neighbor saw them break in and had already called the police and they caught the third guy while he was running for the getaway vehicle. Neither one in the bedroom needed emergency assistance. They needed the coroner wagon and body bags. These were all men in mid to upper 20's. That ended all the home breakins in that subdivision. All it takes is one wrong house and that day they picked the wrong house.

You mentioned you live quite far off the beaten path. My Daughter and SIL's house has been burgularized twice and they also live on a country road off the beaten path. They finally had a security system put in and so far so good but I don't plan on putting one in when I move out there in the back house and my parking area is behind the house so good luck is all I can say...............

There would be zero doubt about what I am going to do if someone is in my house uninvited that should not be there. He will get shot until he is no longer a threat and anyone with him will also be shot until they are no longer a threat unless they are heading for an exit. I won't back shoot any one leaving because they have made the decision to end the threat on their own and the police will already be in route so they will probably catch the other guy fairly fast. That is not to say they may be bleeding cause I will shoot them all as long as they are facing me and a threat. I do have extended magazines with lots of rounds.

I guess that will work but I was thinking more like naming the Tennessee Tree Stumps.............

I have always had the utmost respect for your posts and this one is no different. You have raised some many great points in this post also and being a former police officer I have no doubt that what you say is totally correct. It's just my knowledge of what I have learned over my time in the military that I refer to many times about this subject. And yea, my emotions do play a role in my posts when it comes to some crazy person in a school killing children that would draw me towards the gun fire without hesitation even knowing I might get shot or killed. If I can draw the perps attention away from killing kids long enough to give other officers time to get in place to kill him I have done my part. You mentions a swat team or 10 other members could not stop a crazy person from taking lives if that is their goal and of course you are correct. It is not the fact that we could not stop the shooter from killing or wounding people . The point is to limit the amount of carnage the shooter can do before he is stopped that I am referring to I guess. ..............JMHO

A while back I read a post and someone said that the Construction cones are now call Tennessee Trees I believe. If that is what they cal the cones what do they call the barrels????.............LOL? I drove down Hwy 109 yesterday and I bet they have a couple 1000 barrels lining both sides of the hwy, so just wondering if we have a name for those too?

Thank you Greg and I would like to think I am a better man then him. I have always been a person that in a case where a mass shooter is in a school shooter children that I would run as fast as possible towards the gun fire to try and end the carnage as fast as possible.

If I would have been one of the first responders on the scene and he was trying to stop me from going in I would have ignored him and went in because that is where he should have been was inside and not out side........JMHO

If it is not their job to serve and protect people from harm, especially our children just what are they paid to do and why are they needed at all ??????

I double check all of my doors before going to bed to make sure they are locked and dead bolted. Windows have never been unlocked since I have lived here almost 20 years. I did add wooden doll rods to each window track so it won't slide upward. If anyone gets in my house they will have to break something to get in period. One simple kick on my doors won't get it done I have the security dead bolts that go through the door frame and into the wood the door frame is mounted to. If they do get inside they will still be inside when the police arrive. Most likely bleeding and maybe not breathing but that will be entirely their drcision. Will just depend on how stupid they really are!!!

+1 on getting them back!!!!!

Let us all not forget what this day represents to AMERICA and all the men and women and families that have sacrificed so much that we are still the greatest nation on Earth!!!

That article what little of it I bothered to read reminded me of a commercial of this red Haired lady holding a round card board smiley face up when people are talking to her and then she is at her doctors office and she asks the doctor if she is the only one with the problem and the doctor says your not alone! 2 out 3 people have the same problem and he recomends another medicine to go along with the anti-depressant she is already on. Then it shows her back at work and she says she is glad she can add the new medicine to help her with the progress she made on her old medicine. If she was making Progress on her old meds what made her think she needed anything else??? What also caught my attention was she works in a business of preparing food that is going to be delivered to home bound people and not one person working there is wearing any type of hair net while preparing the food!!! Name of the company is Good Works Kitchen. Maybe someone needs to contact them about hair nets...........JMHO

I can see many good points you raised but 1 in particular raises many questions. # 5 is the one in question. With all of the politics being the way they are, can the Amendment be re written with the honesty and integrity it was written with the first time? I think not. There are to many people with billions of dollars that could have far to much influence to get it rewritten to benefit all Americans and not just the elite among us. In my opinion it is better to leave it as it is written. The writers of the Constitution were the scholars of that period and I am quite sure they were putting all future advances they could see at that time. If we allow our elected officials to re write one amendment what is to stop them from rewriting another and then another and on and on till we no longer have a Constitution any longer but just a bunch of new laws to suit the elite few amongst us.............JMHO

My Grandson Justin lives in Burns with his family but his children are not quit school age yet.

Prayers being sent for family for the loss but I think it would also be time to rejoice her long life and time to remember all the good times while she was with your family.

Yea, I know. Some years back I needed to get a copy of my diploma and learned that all the school system was now run by the county and all the records from that high school got sent to Dickson Board of education. It took me two months for them to come up with a copy of my diploma but I finally did get one.

I graduated from High School in White Bluff. I know tha school is no longer a High school but back when I graduated it was call William James High School and that was in 1966. Back in the day that every pickup truck in the student parking lot had some type of long gun hanging in the back window for going hunting after school including mine........LOL

Welcome to Tennessee. Kingston Springs is a nice town to live in. I lived there 15 years. As far as deer hunting down that way there are some to be found. Heres one my 11 year old grandson bagged last season.

Well yea but when your not pushed for time and bored to tears already I don't see the need to be short about anything...........

I fully agree with it not being an old mans job for sure, especially if they have to cover ground very fast. As many Cameras as possible need to be in play that would give as much early reaction as possible. I think keeping class room doors lock is also a good option. Don't make it easy for a bad guy to just walk into a classroom. As many early warning devices as possible are also a good idea. The more time it takes the bad guy to reach his goal the more time it gives the good guys to get on the scene.............JMHO

I can agree with a lot of what your saying for sure and agree with a lot of your ideas. It was just an idea I had because there is a great many Vets that would like to be earning an income rather than sitting around doing nothing. I know of 3 here locally that are friends of mine that have all said they would take a job working school security and they all think there is a need for it. That is what got me thinking more about it is all.

There has been many discussions on how to keep our children safe in schools. Many of them look at what it would cost to equip our schools with cameras and other devices and costs. Will any of these items stop a bad guy with a gun? How much money are our children worth? I have not heard anyone put a money figure on what they are worth? Reason is there is no price you can put on even 1 childs life. It is common sense that bad guys not being able to get guns will never happen. So next best thing would be good guys and gals with guns!!! That has been discussed in many different forms but no solutions have ever been reached. I have one!!! Unemployed Veterans!!!! We had 1000's of qualified veterans that would be more than glad to have a job. There are many men and women Veterans that have college degrees that would be more than qualified to hold a position in any school. There are many that could be Counselors, Coaches, sports equiptment managers, Custodians, and even plain clothes Security Officers. These are people that don't run from Gunfire but run towards it. These are people that know gun fire when they hear it. They would not need to be added to a budget because they would be employees. Start putting them in schools and you would have good guys/women with guns protecting our children against bad guys with guns. That would also take the burden off arming teachers and office personnel............This is just a thought and my opinion for what its worth. Can anyone come up with a better idea I would like to hear it.............???