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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Guy B. Meredith:
I do not seriously expect to need a gun for defense--just recreation. HOWEVER, I would feel pretty bad if someone decided to break into our house and endanger my family so I keep my recreational 7-shot .357 magnum and three speedloaders of Federal 130 gr Hydra-Shok rounds within easy access when I am in the house. The 8-shot .357 magnum and a few hundred rounds of target ammo are just as close.
I don't know that I would buy a gun for this purpose. (Hah! It just occurs to me that I haven't--the proper gun would be an 870 rather than the handguns.) Anyway, as long as I have something that would be useful, I keep it avaiable.
This home defense thing is sort of like preparing for an earthquake disaster here in the San Francisco Bay area, a tornado in the midwest or a flooding river. We all know the odds are minimal, but want to be prepared if we caught the bad luck.
That said, the reality is that home invasion robberies in the Silicon Valley area is common with Viet Namese residents.
The neighbor of one of my wife's clients in the upscale area of Alamo (about 8 miles from here) were confronted by home invaders about a week ago. The home owner, Kim Fang, shot and killed one of the invaders, they killed him and his family beat the crap out of the other invader. Turns out one was a member of a Stockton street gang who had helped deliver furniture to his house.
There are also three cases of women killed by carpet cleaners and other hired help in this area.
Of course I know this sort of thing would never happen here because we are very low profile, poor and not paranoid. Hmmmm.....[/quote]
[This message has been edited by Guy B. Meredith (edited January 13, 2000).]