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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
Don't mean to sound like a broken record here.....but you is probably much better off running out the door with a kitchen broom and just go shake the broom at the stranger than using a gun.....guns just escalate the situation...and besides, after all is said and you go back inside....you already are all worked up....so's you might as well go sweep the floor!
No way, can you sweep the floor with a Colt .45!
Message here: carry a broom and you get to clean up! But, carry a gun and you get three to six years in a very small, steel and masonry, slammer door, prison cell!
And what does the defense attorney get....maybe a second new Mercedes just for the weekends!
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Every time I read this comment all I can think about is one of those old fashioned tombstones with the following Phrase:
"Here lies fatlazyless he came to a gunfight with a broom"
All kidding aside less you assume that every trespasser comes on your land unarmed? A trespasser is sometimes knowingly breaking the law and occasionally may be armed. So if you run out on your porch waving a broom around you may actually escalate a situation with a criminal in which they pull a gun. Then what?
I'm not saying that was the case in this situation but you are painting some mighty broad brushstrokes with that broom of yours.
