Here is a good article that I found at FirearmsForum.com. In it, the writer makes some good points; such as, should you have to shoot someone, there will be consequences. The cops will take your gun as evidence for one thing, so it is always best to have at least two pistols of a serious caliber. That way you will still have a gun and you may well need it. If you have to kill or seriously wound an assailant in self-defense, he will have friends and they will not like you at all. There may be more than one shooting event before it is all said and done.
Which brings me to tell you this story. After I was acquitted of Randy's murder, I met two of his friends as I was walking. It was very late and night and they both stopped, one of them asked me if I was the one that killed Randy. I told him that yes I was, all three of us had stopped and we were staring each other down. My inquisitor said, "Let's settle this, I am going to take my knife to you, the same way that you did to Randy."
I told him, "OK, let's go, if that is the way it is."
He told me to step over into a dark alley and we would get it going right there. I said, "No, if we are going to that, we can do it right here in the light." (There was light from the streetlights and it would have been very public and visible.) He declined to that and he told me that another time would do just as well. Then we all turned and went our separate ways.
Friends, I had my .45 Colt Auto in my pocket, loaded. He could not see it however and I did not offer to tell him about it. He thought that he had the situation in hand and he would do what he would. I would have lit them up, as I expected to be attacked with knives by both of them. They were overconfident and running their yaps, when they should have been considering things. Now, only one did the talking, but both of them were in on it.
I figured,"Well, it's back to jail all over again!" I would have shot it out with them folks, if anyone is fool enough to attack me with a knife, I will us deadly force. There it is, in black and white. And yes, this happened in Huntington West Virginia, just a few days after my acquittal. How is it that I am the one that these things happen to? I am the one that stands up to tyrants, that's why. So if you decide that you are going to be that way, just remember, there may be no going back.
I can't go back to Huntington proper because of it and my face was splashed all over the TV and newspapers. My name and story was broadcast over every radio station in town, and I am infamous now.
People recognized me when I went to a different church and town, there was no getting away from it in the Tri-State area. Which is not an insignificant area either, there are 300,000 people living in the metro areas of Huntington-Ashland-Ironton. And they all knew my face and name.
But the main emphasis of the article is to have a number of guns, because you will need them, if it hits the fan. It is no joke friends, you will need them. At the end of it, he modifies his article and it is an important point. He does away with any small caliber weapons in favor of large calibers,e.g., the .40 or above. I don't disagree, but I would feel fine with a 12 round .380 ACP. I mentioned that in a prior posting about a Taurus.
Keep in mind however, that I made the stipulation of having at least 1 extra mag for a reload. But, that is the same stipulation that I make for my .45 Auto, I will have at least 1 reload mag: for a total of 14 or 15 rounds. That would mean at least 24 rounds of .380 would be available to me in magazines. One in the gun and one in my pocket. Let me go so far as to state this, I would have a knife on me too.
Sounds nuts? Then you ain't been where the danger is palpable and you can get killed: where it is not a far off threat, but at your side.
God bless.
http://www.firearmsforum.com/Firearms/Article/849
Which brings me to tell you this story. After I was acquitted of Randy's murder, I met two of his friends as I was walking. It was very late and night and they both stopped, one of them asked me if I was the one that killed Randy. I told him that yes I was, all three of us had stopped and we were staring each other down. My inquisitor said, "Let's settle this, I am going to take my knife to you, the same way that you did to Randy."
I told him, "OK, let's go, if that is the way it is."
He told me to step over into a dark alley and we would get it going right there. I said, "No, if we are going to that, we can do it right here in the light." (There was light from the streetlights and it would have been very public and visible.) He declined to that and he told me that another time would do just as well. Then we all turned and went our separate ways.
Friends, I had my .45 Colt Auto in my pocket, loaded. He could not see it however and I did not offer to tell him about it. He thought that he had the situation in hand and he would do what he would. I would have lit them up, as I expected to be attacked with knives by both of them. They were overconfident and running their yaps, when they should have been considering things. Now, only one did the talking, but both of them were in on it.
I figured,"Well, it's back to jail all over again!" I would have shot it out with them folks, if anyone is fool enough to attack me with a knife, I will us deadly force. There it is, in black and white. And yes, this happened in Huntington West Virginia, just a few days after my acquittal. How is it that I am the one that these things happen to? I am the one that stands up to tyrants, that's why. So if you decide that you are going to be that way, just remember, there may be no going back.
I can't go back to Huntington proper because of it and my face was splashed all over the TV and newspapers. My name and story was broadcast over every radio station in town, and I am infamous now.
People recognized me when I went to a different church and town, there was no getting away from it in the Tri-State area. Which is not an insignificant area either, there are 300,000 people living in the metro areas of Huntington-Ashland-Ironton. And they all knew my face and name.
But the main emphasis of the article is to have a number of guns, because you will need them, if it hits the fan. It is no joke friends, you will need them. At the end of it, he modifies his article and it is an important point. He does away with any small caliber weapons in favor of large calibers,e.g., the .40 or above. I don't disagree, but I would feel fine with a 12 round .380 ACP. I mentioned that in a prior posting about a Taurus.
Keep in mind however, that I made the stipulation of having at least 1 extra mag for a reload. But, that is the same stipulation that I make for my .45 Auto, I will have at least 1 reload mag: for a total of 14 or 15 rounds. That would mean at least 24 rounds of .380 would be available to me in magazines. One in the gun and one in my pocket. Let me go so far as to state this, I would have a knife on me too.
Sounds nuts? Then you ain't been where the danger is palpable and you can get killed: where it is not a far off threat, but at your side.
God bless.
http://www.firearmsforum.com/Firearms/Article/849
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