Years ago I had a horse shoeing job over at the California Coast, a couple of hour drive from home. There were enough horses to shoe that it was well worth my while to take the job, left early, got the job done a little after lunch, but before dinner and the drinking crowd. On my way home I stopped in a bar for a sandwich and a beer. The place was relatively empty, and I noticed a TV up in the corner that didn't have a tube in it. Sign below it said, "We don't have TV, but we have fights every night." I stay out of those places now. I have two herniated discs in my back, and there is no way martial arts would do me a bit of good. I don't go to places that there might be gangs, and try and avoid trouble best I can. But if there is some jerk with road rage or an under the bridge bum wanting to rob or carjack, or for any other reason they want to get physical, I'll not take a beating. My answer is a Sig 45 ACP with a laser sight carried in the car and a smaller .22 Magnum out of sight on my body. I've kept a shotgun in the house, but I think besides that and the .22 magnum I'll put a 357 magnum in the bedroom. No laser on that one though. Haven't done it yet, but this post has me thinking. A good dog is a good idea, I've believed in that for years. There was a time in Oregon when the law was no death penalty, therefore it was illegal to use deadly physical force for any reason except to protect your or another person's life, and you had better be inside your house at the time, and the bad guys body better be in there with you. At that time I thought a dog was the answer. But then a neighbor had a trained guard dog. His folks were going out of town, so in the evening he put the dog in the house. Next morning he could tell the house had been broken into by the broken window near the drive way. Going in, the dog was standing over the burglar with saliva dripping on his throat. He had the guy pinned there all night. Long story short. The bad guy sued the fellow with the dog, and won $6,000 damages, plus the judge ordered the dog be put to death. The judge didn't get the dog though, my neighbor moved away to save the dogs life. At the time of conception God might have made all men equal, but that equality ends soon after there have been some cell divisions, and it took Sam Colt to make men equal, and as far as that goes, little bitty 98 pound double a cup gal equal with a hulky 240 pound man. Some might think guns aren't the answer, but they aren't the problem either. Our immediate gratification, get something for nothing, drug addicted society has more to do with the criminal behavior of that class of people than any gun ever did. There are bad people out there, be alert, watch your back, avoid trouble, and like the Boy Scouts say, "be prepared."
Which Ontario do you live in? cause in the one I live in I hear about shootings DAILY.
Defend myself from What ?
