I was just having a discussion with my barber about home invasions yesterday. He knows I'm a gun guy and always asks about them. I told him that EVERY home should have a good weapon for situations like this. He didn't realize that things like this happen in nice neighborhoods.
Of course it happens in nice neighborhoods. That's where the nice stuff to steal is, along with complacent homeowners*, and a lot of cover of darkness. I've heard it called the "Lexus lottery"
* or out of town homeowners. Lots of people on vaca this time of year.
We have very long driveways so when a heavy snowstorm is predicted everyone moves their vehicles to the curb. I never would.
While walking the dogs the next morning I found a lens cap, wallet, tape cassettes etc. in the snow. Those who left their vehicles unlock were robbed. And those who left their garage door opener in the vehicles lost even more.
There are no safe communities. Maybe Mara logo.
It looked like the perpetrator attempted to remove the phone camera.
Or he was just pushing repeatedly. People do that. I'd like to know what he saw or heard that made him leave. Of course I have dogs, which makes everyone leave, lol.
That's precisely why I don't turn lights on when things go bump in the night.He rang the bell then ran back out front to see if any lights came on in the house. I'm sure dogs would have deterred him if they barked.
Now my anti gun neighbors want to borrow a gun for home defense.
I gave them all starter pistols.
"I'm sorry neighbor but to borrow that hunting shotgun you will need to get a NICS background check done and then I cannot loan you anything until the 8th day after you put in for it. Unless it's a handgun you want to borrow, in which case the answer is no and if you want your own you better start looking for an HQL class and sending in your fingerprints and we're talking months. It's just common sense. It's for the children. Statistically you are probably not going to need one anyway, after all, you can just dial 911. Now, doesn't it feel good to experience the results of your own 'ideals?'"
"I'm sorry neighbor but to borrow that hunting shotgun you will need to get a NICS background check done and then I cannot loan you anything until the 8th day after you put in for it. Unless it's a handgun you want to borrow, in which case the answer is no and if you want your own you better start looking for an HQL class and sending in your fingerprints and we're talking months. It's just common sense. It's for the children. Statistically you are probably not going to need one anyway, after all, you can just dial 911. Now, doesn't it feel good to experience the results of your own 'ideals?'"
You have a link? That's almost literally next door to me.Someone was carjacked at the fricking Howard County conservancy a couple weeks ago. It ain't Mayberry anymore.
You have a link? That's almost literally next door to me.
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At 6:20 p.m., a woman said her car was stolen at gunpoint on Old Frederick Road near Dorchester Way in Woodstock.
She said she was getting out of her vehicle when she was approached by a male who displayed a gun and demanded her car keys and cellphone.