What is the least useful self-defense advice you have ever heard?

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I had a buddy in college that upon finding out I kept a handgun in my apartment stated, "I don't think I could ever shoot somebody, that's why I keep a dagger on my nightstand." I couldn't believe he actually said it, or that somehow in his logic, he was less squeamish about the up close and bloody work of knife wounds than the idea of shooting someone.
 
Back in about 1978, my 103-year-old Great-aunt Janie was at sitting in her living room. The front door was open...and the screen door was shut and latched. My grandfather knocked on the door, and she being poor of sight hollered, "I've got a gun! You better get outta here!" My grandfather retorted "Janie, you don't have a gun!" She responded, "Oh yes and I do, and I can use it!" He laughed harder, and I about filled my pants, thinking, "She really IS sitting there with a gun!" And she was...sitting there with a gun!! :what:

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In a home invasion scenerio : Lazer sights will give your possistion away - lets the BG know where you are. Well I guess thats true... but so is my flashlight and my yelling to get out of my house and that I've got 911 on the phone.
 
Good grief! Jacking a shot gun will stop a some one cold. It has a very distinctive sound. I was working on an alarm at 3:00 am in East Chicago, In. and the building owner did just that behind me. I thought I was a gonner!
Is is the best advice, NO. Will it work, Maybe!
It is better than saying, "Don't have a gun because you might shoot someone." ? YEP!
 
"Load a round of birdshot, then buckshot, then the rest slugs. That way if he keeps walking through the birdshot, you shoot him with the buckshot, and if he keeps walking through that, the slugs will stop him."

-Advice given by an ammo salesman at a gunshow
 
Smith said:
"Load a round of birdshot, then buckshot, then the rest slugs. That way if he keeps walking through the birdshot, you shoot him with the buckshot, and if he keeps walking through that, the slugs will stop him."
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Yes your Honor, I can certainly explain to the prosecution why I shot Mr. X with 3 different types of ammunition . . . .
 
What is the dumbest self-defense advice you have ever heard?

My wife's sister advised me that a firearm is unnecessary as a pellet gun will knock them down long enough for the police to arrive.
 
Idiot behind the counter in a police supply store, to a female customer.

"If anyone .......(I'll say "messes", he used another word.) with you, you just point this at him and pull the trigger until it stops shooting."

My first thought was define "messes with you." That was just the beginning.

I had just heard the same idiot telling another customer, "It's easy to do a trigger job on a Smith and Wesson revolver. First you pop the sideplate off with a screwdriver............."

I don't hear a lot of stupid stuff in gunshops. I don't go to this one much anymore.
 
So, I have this friend who went to Caltech. Smart guy, would meet the definition of genius by the most stringent IQ test.

Well, after 9/11 happened, he told me he was carrying around a dagger for self protection....

The mental image of AK-47 toting terrorists showing up at Caltech (there is a federal facility called the Jet Propulsion Laboratory there that could theoretically have been a target) and my friend with his dagger....LOL....

Also, they deployed the National Guard to make sure those AK-47 toting towel heads didn't appear out of nowhere and take over JPL....so his dagger was even more useless...
 
Not really advice, and maybe smart. My buddy was showing me his generic 1911. Truly had no markings on it. He dropped the mag and un-racked (?) the round in the chamber. It was rat shot or bird shot of some kind with the rest of the mag loaded with HPs. "***?" He said " if my wife starts shootin at me I'll have a chance to get away" LOL. Apparently she has quite a temper.

Accident
 
"Have the first round in the mag [of a CCW] be a shotshell and shoot the BG in the face. If that doesn't stop them then shoot them with the rest of the mag"
I heard this about two and a half years ago from a guy with a CCW, being 17 at the time and unaware of most things about guns, ammo and the legality surround concealed weapons other than I thought guns were pretty cool. I thought it was great advice!
My friend still believes that he should have birdshot loaded in his shotgun because, "it's going to hurt them really badly and scare them off without killing them", and thinks I'm slightly crazy for having my shotgun loaded with 00 Buck at night and slugs on the side saddle...
 
mustang_steve said:
"drag them inside"
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"If they are in your yard or on your porch shoot them and drag thim just inside the door before they bleed on anything"

The sheriff of my county has *jokingly* told me this, on duty and in person.

KaintGetwright said:
A .22 . . . . will bounce around inside.

Used to hear that all the time from the banger wannabes in Memphis.
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I am related to two medical professionals that have told me this. I sat on the jury of a capital murder trial in which one individual was shot with a 7mm mag twice at range and survived, while another was shot at a distance with a 22mag in the stomach and he did not survive, the state medical examiner testifing that it was due to the effect you just described.
 
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Erik M said:
"If they are in your yard or on your porch shoot them and drag thim just inside the door before they bleed on anything"

The sheriff of my county has *jokingly* told me this, on duty and in person.


I am related to two medical professionals that have told me this. I sat on the jury of a capital murder trial in which one individual was shot with a 7mm mag twice at range and survived, while another was shot at a distance with a 22mag in the stomach and he did not survive, the state medical examiner testifying that it was due to the effect you just described.
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o_O

Apparently a sheriff that knows my girlfriend's father told her if she ever shot someone to drag them into the house. I really didn't know what to say... The amount of misinformation that gets thrown around is insane.
 
My wife's sister advised me that a firearm is unnecessary as a pellet gun will knock them down long enough for the police to arrive.
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LMAO!! Yeah right, and if a butterfly sits on your head you'll get a concussion. Geez!
 
Well, after 9/11 happened, he told me he was carrying around a dagger for self protection....
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That's ESPECIALLY stupid in California, where a long history of ethnic violent activity that's too politically incorrect to identify has led to ridiculous knife laws. It is a felony to be caught with a concealed blade that size, and the double edge of a dagger makes it very difficult to argue that it is a tool for work (about the only possible defense in court that I know of).

First offense with a concealed, loaded handgun, if you have a clean record and the gun is in the Califoria gun database, is a misdemeanor, not a felony.
 
I think the fallacy in the "rack the shotgun" advice lies in people who expect it to always work and are not prepared to go further. Does it work sometimes? Yep. Is it nice if the BG is scared off? Yep. But should on be totally prepared to pull the trigger if it comes to that? Definitely. Use the sound of a pump action if it goes to your benefit. But ALWAYS be prepared to take it as far as it needs to go. If that means multiple rounds of 00 buck/slugs to COM, so be it. The fool is the one who only racks the shotgun, but is not prepared to shoot.
 
my ccw instructer was instructing our class on how to properly hold a pistol and a revolver. he said that for both of them you should wrap your right hand around it with your left doing a mirror image of your right... both thumbs around the back of the grip, both index fingers indexing along the frame. he did go on to say "be carefull with a semi auto, the slide may brush your thumb while firing..." :what: yeah your thumb will be dumping blood but it will just brush you

he also went on to say that you should keep your left index finger straight out along the frame, just below the cylinder because it will help you line up your shot...:banghead: i almost wanted to hand him a .357 and let him shoot it just so i could watch the tip of his finger fly off from the blast.
 
this is soo easy....

"dont try to defend yourself as you will never be able to defend yourself, and youll only make them madder. Also if you simply let them do what they want to do to you, you will keep your moral and ethical superiority over them"

"owning a weapon will simply make you want to kill yourself or everyone on your block"

'having a gun in your house will make your family members kill themselves, each other before killing the rest of the neighborhood."

'no weapon is able to immediately stop an attacker, simply not powerful enough so why shoot a rapist in your bedroom when hell simply wait till you run out of ammo before beating you to death with it"

"all firearms wether pistol or rifle or shotgun will have the power to shoot through your house, and every house and garage within a half mile in front of the muzzle when it goes off."
 
Ragnar Danneskjold said:
I think the fallacy in the "rack the shotgun" advice lies in people who expect it to always work and are not prepared to go further. Does it work sometimes? Yep. Is it nice if the BG is scared off? Yep. But should on be totally prepared to pull the trigger if it comes to that? Definitely. Use the sound of a pump action if it goes to your benefit. But ALWAYS be prepared to take it as far as it needs to go. If that means multiple rounds of 00 buck/slugs to COM, so be it. The fool is the one who only racks the shotgun, but is not prepared to shoot.
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Ragnar is spot on.

And I love your name, by the way. Still working on stamping out Robin Hood, I suppose? :cool:
 
"You should keep your guns unloaded and locked away, with your ammunition stored in a separate location."
 
ive heard thatone before b yond..........*ponders a moment* didnt the Democrats say that was the saest thing for us too do?
 
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