Onthebeach, don't tell me I'm a liar.
What guns could be more readily available than ones kept in the house you live in?

Mentioning the school mass shooting has as much to do with this subject as you mentioning bombings etc.

Telling me I have emotional baggage when you resort to personal insults when someone else doesn't agree with you, tells more about you than me.

Luckily, most men in this country don't need a gun to prove they are a man.

@ csteele
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As to whether this woman was justified in her actions one would need to know a few more facts such as did the person move toward her after he had seen the weapon etc
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Did you read the artical?

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The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m. The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman. He said she took her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a crowbar.

But the man eventually found the family.

"The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he's staring at her, her two children and a .38 revolver,"
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From my understanding of this, she tried to avoid a confronation with the intruder by hiding in the crawl space. When he found them she had no where to go, she was corned so she opened fire.

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During a domestic dispute he had been firing guns through his front door. He was persuaded to drop them by police but then turned to retrieve them and was shot dead.

This was after Loganville police had killed another man just a month earlier after a similar incident.

Both incidents would surely have had different outcomes if weapons had not been within easy reach of intoxicated distraught men.
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No, They killed a kid here not long ago who had a knife. Policy Enforcers don't care what weapon you use. If you have a weapon and are considered a threat, you're as good as dead these days.
Hell they tazer people for talking back at them!

But anyway, this still has nothing to do with taking away a persons human right to life and self determination!

If you go off the deep end, then yes we need to handle these cases carefully. And thankfully they are not too frequent. But they do not justify taking away a persons human right to life and self determination!

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This style of policing has its consequences. Another distraught man who found his son dead in his garage after a suicide was savagely beaten by Loganville police officers after ignoring an order to sit down.
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That's a problem with Policy Enforcers, not guns.

I'm not interested in all the BS manipulated (by both sides) statistics and unhinged arguments about gun ownership. I'm interested in the fact that a minority group who openly admit they would have done the exact same thing as this poor woman did. Want to take away a human right for people to protect themselves how they see fit. They have no right! If an intruder was to come into my home. I will not ask him if he's here to take my telly and point him to the gun free zone sign on the wall. He shouldn't be there period! You understand, period!

If I break into a government facility, I'll have ten Policy Enforcers with guns in my face before I know it! Yet I'm suppose to let imported thugs into my home and defend my self with a phone? Are you nuts?

I pray it never happens to any of you good people, but lay off this bullsh!t, you would all do the same thing, you have admitted such and if you don't, well enjoy your long sleep in the box! And stop trying to force others to do the same!

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Luckily, most men in this country don't need a gun to prove they are a man.
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You see the emotional tripe we have to put up with from some. Of the thousand plus men and women I know who partake in firearm and related recreation, I've never met a single person that felt superior because they had a weapon in their hands. I think you watch too many cop shows! Those kinds of comments are just irritating noise, Susie!

Luckily, most men in this country don't need a gun to prove they are a man.
Suseonline,
Now you're getting just plain s....d. I shudder to think of the many Suseonlines out there in voter land.
Most men in this country are prisoners of a Government dictated to by the same confused sex as the Suseonlines.