Safety question ?

[bsblady01]

This has gone from bad to worse. The president said more school resource offers and making schools safer - nothing about guns. The orange guy wants teachers to have guns.

There are not enough faces to palm....

who is the orange guy

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

You never had a bomb drill in school or a tornado drill in school

I already answered that question.

 

[Malibustyle23]

This has gone from bad to worse. The president said more school resource offers and making schools safer - nothing about guns. The orange guy wants teachers to have guns.

There are not enough faces to palm....

The Orange man. I am literally dying!!! My husband is about to get irritated that my laughing from this thread is interrupting his binge netflixing especially after reading your post.

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

You never had a bomb drill in school or a tornado drill in school

Mine are all out of school, but no, they never had drills like what you described. Tornado drill, yes. Papering the windows and hiding, no.

 

[Malibustyle23]

19 pages later can I just say *Safety cause that is still irritating me.

Thank you. We can all carry on now....

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

I'm donating these so there will be enough faces to palm...

 

[King Schultz]

Code Black.

How unsurprising.

 

[Malibustyle23]

Code Black.

How unsurprising.

Uh oh!

 

[King Schultz]

Uh oh!

 

[JoeA]

Ok, so here's a question and it's not an argument question, it's a genuine question. Say you are in your car with your unloaded gun and you are stopped at a red light. Someone comes up to your window and points a gun at you and wants to carjack you. What's the point of having your gun if it's useless in the situation? You obviously won't have time to get it out of your pocket or holster or wherever and, being responsible, it's not even loaded so why need it?

I have a permit to carry concealed, but rarely do (can't actually remember the last time I did). If some one comes up and wants to car jack you...give them your car.

Even if I was carrying - take the car. I have insurance. Not worth my life or yours.

When I go to the range the guns are broken down and pretty much useless in this scenario, but if I do feel the need to carry (and I have), then it's "locked and loaded" and quickly accessible.

Not sure that really answers your question, though.

 

[JoeA]

Why is it my only take away from this thread is "beers"?

And for the record, I have a beer AND a glass of my wife's home made sangria in front of me.

Hic! Ok, waaaaaaay off topic!

 

[King Schultz]

Why is it my only take away from this thread is "beers"?

And for the record, I have a beer AND a glass of my wife's home made sangria in front of me.

Hic! Ok, waaaaaaay off topic!

Beer is never off topic my friend.

 

[jevs]

I have a permit to carry concealed, but rarely do (can't actually remember the last time I did). If some one comes up and wants to car jack you...give them your car.
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[Shanti]

You don't live in the states so you would not understand what we are dealing with here

I live 3 hours from Dallas, my brother lives in Dallas, and I am not worried about a thing.

 

[kimblebee]

I have a permit to carry concealed, but rarely do (can't actually remember the last time I did). If some one comes up and wants to car jack you...give them your car.

Even if I was carrying - take the car. I have insurance. Not worth my life or yours.

When I go to the range the guns are broken down and pretty much useless in this scenario, but if I do feel the need to carry (and I have), then it's "locked and loaded" and quickly accessible.

Not sure that really answers your question, though.

Thank you for answering the question. You are different because you said that you keep a gun at the ready and I was asking about the PP who said that guns should be kept unloaded at all times.

Maybe the car example was a bad one. People say at home they keep their gun in a gun safe. How is that helpful if someone breaks in in the middle of the night? You won't have time to get the gun if the intruder is standing over you when you wake up. I'm not trying to be argumentative, just trying to maybe see a different angle.

 

[maxiesmom]

Thank you for answering the question. You are different because you said that you keep a gun at the ready and I was asking about the PP who said that guns should be kept unloaded at all times.

Maybe the car example was a bad one. People say at home they keep their gun in a gun safe. How is that helpful if someone breaks in in the middle of the night? You won't have time to get the gun if the intruder is standing over you when you wake up. I'm not trying to be argumentative, just trying to maybe see a different angle.

Not everyone keeps their gun in a safe. I think it depends on who all is in the house, may have access to the house, and how comfortable that person feels with a loaded gun in their house. I know many people with guns in their homes. Some have them loaded and ready to go, some don't. And if an intruder is standing over you pointing a weapon at you, unless the loaded gun is under your pillow you won't have time to reach for it anyway.

If you want someone to somehow guarantee your safety 100% of the time, thats not going to happen.

 

[Oreo Cookie]

I respect your fear and concern as valid to you, but I also grew up in the 1990s and I don't personally recall them being carefree at all.

Between the Murrah Federal Building being attacked by domestic terrorists, a group of extremists in Waco creating a standoff that ended in a conflagration that killed so many innocent children and women, the first attack on the WTC by Osama bin Laden's newly established al Qaeda, the first Gulf War, the regular bombings in Northern Ireland, the sarin attack on Tokyo's subway system that was "guaranteed to be heading to the USA next," the cold-blooded murder of several American physicians by the self-named "Army of God," the Atlanta Olympic bombings by another domestic terrorist from the "Army of God," and many others that I'm sure I'm forgetting, as a teen and young adult it was quite intimidating and flat-out scary at times. Now, as an adult, I realize that I've never been more safe living in my cocoon of privilege and am quite aware that I'm far more likely to be killed in a car accident driving into work than I am to be killed in a modern version of the scary events I remember from the 1990s.

And right now I'm personally inspired and excited by the civil rights protests by members of Black Lives Matter and others, and while I do not like some of the most extreme actions of a very small segment of its membership, I am in full support of their primary efforts and goals and am proud to watch them develop.

In addition to what you already mentioned, I lived in LA during the 1992 riots. Had to leave work when rioting broke out a few blocks away. The city was on fire, there was wide spread looting and destruction, and martial law was declared. Living in the situation was frightening. It took several days for things to calm down. The 90's wasn't all sunshine, rainbows, butterflies and puppy dogs, but we survived and thrived. Cannot let "fear" rule our lives.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

What school administration created and implemented these drills? I simply can't imagine parents aren't all up in arms about something like this.

I can't even...

I can actually vouch for these kinds of drills because my children have them too. It's how they do lockdown drills since Sandyhook(at my twins' school anyway). The blinds are closed, paper over the little window in the door... I don't know what else, but my kids have told me about it.

 

[Allison]

I need to figure out if my husband can carry outside of new York if he can that would make me feel better.

This is not something you should need to figure out. If your husband is a state trooper, he should know.

 

[Kitty 34]

who is the orange guy

Watch Stephen Colbert and you'll figure it out.