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Dean Peters, of blogs4god<\/a> comments:<\/p>\n

Thanks for the link. And thanks for your discussion on a topic I’ve been agonizing over. For some time now, the thought of my wife and daughter at home without a reasonable means of defense was on the back of my mind from time to time.
\nNow it is an obsession. I think to myself, “what if the murder[s] need a house to hole up?” I mean he\/they had to drive by MY HOUSE 2 to 3 TIMES to get to or away from a couple of the slaughters.
\nYeah, I know, raging paranoia, but 40 years in a safe neighborhood instantly turned into shooting gallery makes me think … what if I saw the muzzle of a gun out of the back of a step-van … what could I do, throw my keys at his eyes across the parking lot?
\nYeah, I know, we don’t want vigilantes. Trust me, I’m not one of them.
\nIts like a friend said to me when discussing whether or not to arm the pilots. “It’s a shame that the most well armed individual is someone who’s smuggled onto a plane a pair of nail clippers …” My friend also lives here in the middle of the danger zone.
\nThanks for the link. And the discussion.
\nI’m putting in for my 7 days this afternoon.
\n— Dean Peters<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dean, not to focus unduly on you, but this is my chance to give a small (inflexible and hence Nazi-like) safety rant about gun ownership.
\nSimply put, simply owning a gun will not make you safe, but it will bring on a while new world of responsibilities. On the first point, Col. Cooper (not<\/u> Professor Cooper) said: “Owning a handgun doesn’t make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”<\/I> On the second point, you need to think carefully how you will deal with this new responsibility in the context of the responsibilities you apparently already have\u0085your wife and children.
\nI cannot stress enough the importance of training\u0085training for you in how to use the gun, and training for you, your wife, and children on how to be safe in the presence of guns.
\nI devote two weeks a year to firearms training, and probably spend another week a year with my sons and SO reviewing firearms safety issues.
\nI\u0092ll suggest visiting the firearms links on the left, just to get a sense of the and two excellent books by Mas Ayoob as starting points: In the Gravest Extreme The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection<\/A> and The Truth About Self Protection<\/A>, Mas is excellent at talking about the \u0091context\u0092 of the use of firearms by citizens.
\nFind a local instructor, or email me at the address at the upper left and I can help you find on in your area.
\nA gun is not a talisman that automatically banishes evil. It is<\/u> a tool that can help good people defeat it, though.
\nI’m on the road. See everyone Monday. Try not to kill anyone or blow anything up while I’m gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dean Peters, of blogs4god comments: Thanks for the link. And thanks for your discussion on a topic I’ve been agonizing over. For some time now, the thought of my wife and daughter at home without a reasonable means of defense was on the back of my mind from time to time. Now it is an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}