Has a gun saved your life?

Yes but only in the line of duty of being LEO for 32 years. Never sicnce being retired.

Not sure who's life it saved...mine or the jackass trying to break into my house...but had he succeeded in entering my home instead of running at the sight of looking down a 12 gauge barrel, the outcome would have been very different.

Once. It was like 6 months after I had gotten my permit. Drawing my weapon deterred the attack. Actually, I hadn't even cleared leather before he spun a 180 and ran off.

Had the shakes for an hour and a half.

Not sure. I don't know if the two of them could see that I had a gun, or not. Regardless, they decided to move on quietly.

only once, against a copper head. It is a funny story that I love to think about. Me and my friends ate that snake to prove we were men. Didn't know how to cook it so I just cooked it black, worst thing I have ever ate in my life.

Against a pack of ferral dogs in 1962 .

Affirmative.......

Yes, on several occasions in Iraq.

Never.

Nope. And that's the way I like it.

With the possible exception of the King Cobra snakes don't attack animals larger than their prey. They bite defensively and even then their bites are very rarely fatal to adults. So if somebody had time to aim and shoot they had time to back away. Deciding to shoot a snake is not the same as being saved by a gun from one.

For me, not yet. Grabbed it a few times but it was always nothing.

I believe that 1 of my sisters knowledge of guns saved her from being abducted at the very least.

Manning a 240B was hit by a spotlight in the Straits of Malacca .... not sure who was more suprised Me and the Phone talker of the Small Boat...LOL was a lot happier being behind my gun!

Yes, enough times to know how important they are.

Yes.

And I think indirectly guns save millions of lives daily.

Yes, many times. Only in combat though, never in the states.

Yes, a few times.

Has a gun saved your life?

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No, but it would have taken the life of the thief I caught in my parents house one day. Happily for him when I said, "just stay", he stayed put.

Deaf

Yes.

JustinJ said:

With the possible exception of the King Cobra snakes don't attack animals larger than their prey. They bite defensively and even then their bites are very rarely fatal to adults. So if somebody had time to aim and shoot they had time to back away. Deciding to shoot a snake is not the same as being saved by a gun from one.

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While off topic, I feel compelled to respond. Your statement is incorrect. As little ago as two years, it was shoot or get bit. Kicker is, I technically missed. However I "barked" it with a rock fragment which killed it instantly.

And, while a snake bite may not be ultimately fatal, and that's a crap shoot, they can have very serious results, up to and including the loss of a limb.

Yep, on a couple of occasions.

Absolutely, the fact that myself and millions of other Americans are armed has saved our lives and freedom countless times.
As Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese fleet during WW2) said, "You cannot invade mainland America. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."

Not what you were looking for but pertinent nonetheless.

Pertinent perhaps, but not appropriate for a discussion in ST&T.

Keep it on topic or lose it...