I'm impressed he can get into the biometric safe and load the gun in under a minute! (that's not sarcastic, lol)
I'm more impressed that you've only heard two loud/scary noises twice in seven years. I think I hear something suspicious at least once a week, lol. Which is why I could never live in a situation like yours...we'd be up loading that gun every other night.
Oh, we hear things all the time. Those are the only two times he thought the sounds could be something threatening our safety/lives. I can't express how happy I was when the bear(s) learned to open the top of my composter for a "snack" vs tossing it 6 feet down the yard--we don't get awaken by "that" sound now and the clean up was +o(
Post by anniegoolahey on Jan 9, 2013 16:31:26 GMT -5
Might as well make my first post here. It's the reason I've avoided posting on MM even though I'd love to learn more about investing and enjoy reading posts from successful women.
I've been a mother since I was 17. I married my husband when we were both 20. I had my second and only planned child at the age of 21. I had my third at age 23. Two of my pregnancies and births were covered by medicaid. My youngest two children are still on medicaid and my oldest is covered by healthy kids, which is just $15 a month and $10 copays.
After having my second child I worked (CNA) every weekend instead of the full-time hours I was working before. Because of the bonus for working every weekend I only made $100 less every month. That money was easily recovered by cloth diapering, choosing to breastfeed, and extreme couponing. I enjoyed not sending her and my four year old to daycare, though it was rough on my marriage not having weekends together.
After I gave birth to my youngest I didn't return to work. We learned the day after he was born that my H was awarded a fellowship that was equal to what he and I previously made combined. His job didn't provide health insurance for the children and if I began working full time the insurance and daycare would leave us in the red. Working on the weekends would have given us more money, but I knew we could live without it and keeping my marriage in tact was of higher importance.
So in a nutshell, my flameful confession is that I'm a SAHM with children on medicaid. This will no longer be the case come September.
Might as well make my first post here. It's the reason I've avoided posting on MM even though I'd love to learn more about investing and enjoy reading posts from successful women.
I've been a mother since I was 17. I married my husband when we were both 20. I had my second and only planned child at the age of 21. I had my third at age 23. Two of my pregnancies and births were covered by medicaid. My youngest two children are still on medicaid and my oldest is covered by healthy kids, which is just $15 a month and $10 copays.
After having my second child I worked (CNA) every weekend instead of the full-time hours I was working before. Because of the bonus for working every weekend I only made $100 less every month. That money was easily recovered by cloth diapering, choosing to breastfeed, and extreme couponing. I enjoyed not sending her and my four year old to daycare, though it was rough on my marriage not having weekends together.
After I gave birth to my youngest I didn't return to work. We learned the day after he was born that my H was awarded a fellowship that was equal to what he and I previously made combined. His job didn't provide health insurance for the children and if I began working full time the insurance and daycare would leave us in the red. Working on the weekends would have given us more money, but I knew we could live without it and keeping my marriage in tact was of higher importance.
So in a nutshell, my flameful confession is that I'm a SAHM with children on medicaid. This will no longer be the case come September.
DH has his unloaded gun in his nightstand, with a loaded clip in a biometric safe next to it. He can go from being awakened by a very loud noise to the front door with his gun loaded in under a minute. It would take a minimum of 30 minutes for the police to respond to a 911 call. In the 7 years I've lived here, I've seen him do this twice--once it was a bear throwing trash cans around in the back of his truck, the second was an FBI agent shooting an injured deer 30 feet from our bedroom window at 4:30am.
We don't have kids. All other guns/ammo get locked in the gun safe when we have kids visit (pretty rare). Ammo is always locked up.
This is very similar to us. Rural setting, no kids, substitute bear for wolves (although we did have 1 bear supposedly on the next street over...) and kept locked up. We don't have ours for protection from an intruder as our primary reason for owning them. I actually used to be very anti-guns but my hubby kind of opened my eyes to the various (legit) reasons for having them.
We have a handgun in a safe sunk into our bedroom floor on mh's side. The ammo is in a biometric safe sunk into the wall behind dh's nightstand. Mh only took it out once. A few years back on Xmas eve, someone started pounding on the window off of the front porch. It turns out it was someone who was really drunk and wanted money for the bus.
DH has his unloaded gun in his nightstand, with a loaded clip in a biometric safe next to it. He can go from being awakened by a very loud noise to the front door with his gun loaded in under a minute. It would take a minimum of 30 minutes for the police to respond to a 911 call. In the 7 years I've lived here, I've seen him do this twice--once it was a bear throwing trash cans around in the back of his truck, the second was an FBI agent shooting an injured deer 30 feet from our bedroom window at 4:30am.
We don't have kids. All other guns/ammo get locked in the gun safe when we have kids visit (pretty rare). Ammo is always locked up.
This is very similar to us. Rural setting, no kids, substitute bear for wolves (although we did have 1 bear supposedly on the next street over...) and kept locked up. We don't have ours for protection from an intruder as our primary reason for owning them. I actually used to be very anti-guns but my hubby kind of opened my eyes to the various (legit) reasons for having them.
It's a very regional thing too. I never considered gun ownership when I lived in NJ. We live in a wooded area too. Our primary concern is if an unforeseen natural disaster occurs where we can't leave and people start looting.
A mom in Georgia shot a man five times last week after he broke into her house in the middle of the day. She had time to hide her kids, arm herself, and call for help.
Not all scenerios are middle of the night while you're sleeping kind of things.
Honestly, I'm impressed he can wake from a dead sleep and form a logical thought in under a minute. ;D
I'm with you on that. That's how H is. I guess when people have that as a career (Marine Corps infantry) and live in Iraq a good chunk of their adult life, they become accustomed to waking up and being ready with a gun.
A mom in Georgia shot a man five times last week after he broke into her house in the middle of the day. She had time to hide her kids, arm herself, and call for help.
Not all scenerios are middle of the night while you're sleeping kind of things.
A mom in Georgia shot a man five times last week after he broke into her house in the middle of the day. She had time to hide her kids, arm herself, and call for help.
Not all scenerios are middle of the night while you're sleeping kind of things.
Why five times?
It was a .38 revolver. Probably took a few shots to completely shut him down.
A mom in Georgia shot a man five times last week after he broke into her house in the middle of the day. She had time to hide her kids, arm herself, and call for help.
Not all scenerios are middle of the night while you're sleeping kind of things.
Why five times?
Maybe the first time wasn't in the head and she didn't want him then shooting her?
I appreciate seeing how responsible gun owners store their firearms. DH has expressed an interest in getting a gun, and the #1 reason we haven't done so yet is simply because I don't feel like I know enough about it/them to do so comfortably/responsibly.
A biometric safe seems like a really good idea, I didn't really know those existed.
Yup, that was the only reason I would let DH own a gun is if he got this type of safe. It was $$$ but in my opinion and worth it.
Might as well make my first post here. It's the reason I've avoided posting on MM even though I'd love to learn more about investing and enjoy reading posts from successful women.
I've been a mother since I was 17. I married my husband when we were both 20. I had my second and only planned child at the age of 21. I had my third at age 23. Two of my pregnancies and births were covered by medicaid. My youngest two children are still on medicaid and my oldest is covered by healthy kids, which is just $15 a month and $10 copays.
After having my second child I worked (CNA) every weekend instead of the full-time hours I was working before. Because of the bonus for working every weekend I only made $100 less every month. That money was easily recovered by cloth diapering, choosing to breastfeed, and extreme couponing. I enjoyed not sending her and my four year old to daycare, though it was rough on my marriage not having weekends together.
After I gave birth to my youngest I didn't return to work. We learned the day after he was born that my H was awarded a fellowship that was equal to what he and I previously made combined. His job didn't provide health insurance for the children and if I began working full time the insurance and daycare would leave us in the red. Working on the weekends would have given us more money, but I knew we could live without it and keeping my marriage in tact was of higher importance.
So in a nutshell, my flameful confession is that I'm a SAHM with children on medicaid. This will no longer be the case come September.
:::ducks:::
I don't agree with your life choices. There, did you get the response you were looking for?
Seriously though, those are some questionable decisions, but I don't really give two shits. I am curious what your H does?
If you take a course, it's actually one of the things they tell you. If you find yourself in a position where you need to shoot, you keep shooting. A revolver only holds 6 rounds.
Well how would you keep it responsibly stored, but easily accessible should someone break in?
I'm just thinking that if my #1 priority were protection in the case of a home invasion, a gun in a locked cabinet isn't exactly easy to access.
I have never, ever seen this satisfactorily answered by a gun owner.
I don't own any guns (nor will I ever) but you could do it responsibly with a finger print safe. My dad has one and I'm pretty sure he keeps a loaded gun in there.
She shot him in the face, I am pretty sure even if 1 didn't take him down, the second one would have.
According to Jenny, he's still alive after the 5th one.
Was there any evidence that this guy was armed or out for anything other than robbing the house? Look, I don't know all of the details, but I am not really in agreement that she should have killed the guy. Firing to stop him and defend herself? Sure. Without more details, which I admittedly do not have, I don't know that shooting someone five times isn't excessive force.
Might as well make my first post here. It's the reason I've avoided posting on MM even though I'd love to learn more about investing and enjoy reading posts from successful women.
I've been a mother since I was 17. I married my husband when we were both 20. I had my second and only planned child at the age of 21. I had my third at age 23. Two of my pregnancies and births were covered by medicaid. My youngest two children are still on medicaid and my oldest is covered by healthy kids, which is just $15 a month and $10 copays.
After having my second child I worked (CNA) every weekend instead of the full-time hours I was working before. Because of the bonus for working every weekend I only made $100 less every month. That money was easily recovered by cloth diapering, choosing to breastfeed, and extreme couponing. I enjoyed not sending her and my four year old to daycare, though it was rough on my marriage not having weekends together.
After I gave birth to my youngest I didn't return to work. We learned the day after he was born that my H was awarded a fellowship that was equal to what he and I previously made combined. His job didn't provide health insurance for the children and if I began working full time the insurance and daycare would leave us in the red. Working on the weekends would have given us more money, but I knew we could live without it and keeping my marriage in tact was of higher importance.
So in a nutshell, my flameful confession is that I'm a SAHM with children on medicaid. This will no longer be the case come September.
:::ducks:::
You're a horrible person who is what is wrong with America today. There, did you get the response you were looking for?
Seriously though, those are some questionable decisions, but I don't really give two shits. I am curious what your H does?
That was about what I was expecting.
He's a neurobiology research assistant at a university. He will have his PhD in May and is currently working on a grant that, if awarded, will pay his salary (TT assistant professor) and research costs for five years at a university in our home state. If he doesn't receive the grant he has a few postdoc options lined up. Either way, his pay bump and my returning to work will allow us come off assistance.
You're a horrible person who is what is wrong with America today. There, did you get the response you were looking for?
Seriously though, those are some questionable decisions, but I don't really give two shits. I am curious what your H does?
That was about what I was expecting.
He's a neurobiology research assistant at a university. He will have his PhD in May and is currently working on a grant that, if awarded, will pay his salary (TT assistant professor) and research costs for five years at a university in our home state. If he doesn't receive the grant he has a few postdoc options lined up. Either way, his pay bump and my returning to work will allow us come off assistance.
Ah crap, you quoted before I changed my answer. It was intended to be tongue in cheek and I didn't mean it to be overtly nasty.
He's a neurobiology research assistant at a university. He will have his PhD in May and is currently working on a grant that, if awarded, will pay his salary (TT assistant professor) and research costs for five years at a university in our home state. If he doesn't receive the grant he has a few postdoc options lined up. Either way, his pay bump and my returning to work will allow us come off assistance.
Ah crap, you quoted before I changed my answer. It was intended to be tongue in cheek and I didn't mean it to be overtly nasty.
According to Jenny, he's still alive after the 5th one.
Was there any evidence that this guy was armed or out for anything other than robbing the house? Look, I don't know all of the details, but I am not really in agreement that she should have killed the guy. Firing to stop him and defend herself? Sure. Without more details, which I admittedly do not have, I don't know that shooting someone five times isn't excessive force.
If someone breaks into YOUR OWN HOME, I don't believe you should ask them if they have a gun before you shoot nor should you ignore them if they are only going to rob you. If he did have a gun and she only shot him twice, what is to keep him from then aiming at her?
I don't get why so many people were saying in the other thread that they'd never pay cash for a house. Couldn't owning your house outright count as one part of a well diversified portfolio? Do you really want all of your money in the market?