I was thinkin' about a bathroom gun

[willypete]

Because the threat potential here is so low that many of us believe it silly to worry about.

And that gives you the right or obligation to make fun of a man?

There are quite a few threads on this forum that I consider an obligate waste of time and space. Guess what? I stay out of them.

 

[FoMoGo]

I'll ask once again for those who are seriously concerned about a violent home invasion at any moment. Where do you live?

I live in a low crime area in the hills of Pa coal country.
It is a town of around 4,000 people.
The surrounding towns are of a similar size.
There are a few home invasions a year within a 20 mile radius.
You always see the people on the news saying "This is such a quiet town... who would think X could happen here."
I am armed from the time I get dressed till I crawl in bed.
When I am in bed I have a handgun, rifle, and shotgun withing reach of the bed.
It isnt paranoia... it is loving my family enough to be sure that I can protect them to the best of my ability.
When I shower, my hand gun is within reach... on a towel in the tank of the toilet.


Jim

 

[420Stainless]

Just beat 'em with the turd wrench.

One of the funniest statements combined with an image that I've ever seen on this site!

I'd go with the Hi Point though.

 

[chicharrones]

I didn't expect it on THR, but that is hilarious.

Seriously, who wants to be hit with one of those and suffer the humiliation and need for antibiotics later?

 

[MIgunguy]

Being worried about being in the shower unarmed to me is paranoid but thats me

me too

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

"Turd Wrench".... I'm rollin'!

 

[CZguy]

I am not going to worry to much about something has has MINIMAL odds of happening. I can get to weapon quickly if i need to but i am FAR more worried about the idiots texting and driving than any home invasion. If it happens i will deal with it the way the Marines taught me and be done with it.

Yep, for me I have about the same odds of wining the lottery as having a home intrusion while I'm in the bathroom.

But every week I see people lining up at the gas station to buy lottery tickets.

I guess like so many things in life it all comes down to a personal choice.

But it does make me wonder how can anyone afford a bathroom gun after buying all of those lotter tickets.

 

[MCgunner]

Mmm, well, the turd wrench is in the half bath. Reckon a bowl brush would be heavy enough?

I think I'm keepin' sharp objects out of the bathroom.....just thinkin' about Murphy's law. You know, you reach for the soap on the rope to scrub your nether regions and grab the wrong thing and.....

 

[Hastings]

If I am attacked in my bathroom, I'll have to depend on the comic shock of seeing a naked hairy fat guy with a rubber ducky and bathtub crayons writing "redrum" on the shower wall.

I also keep a Ruger LCP in my navel.

After shave and a straight razor, need I say more.

I never bathe, so I don't have to address this issue.

Seriously, I have a toilet bowl filled with frickin sharks with frickin laser beams on their frickin heads.

I keep my toilet paper roll soaking in gasoline in case I need to use it as a firebomb. It stings at first, but you get used to it.

I also crisco the floor before entering the shower so that any intruder will slip and suffer the often-warned against bathtub-fall injury. I'll wait behind the shower curtain to finish off the unconsious, lard-smeared intruder with a 40 grit loofa and a bar of Lava soap. I could also use my stainless steel toilet brush to perform the dreaded internal exfoliation maneuver on the hapless malpheasant.

My shower curtain is kevlar.

I carved my soap into the shape of a Glock to bluff intruders with.

I carved my Glock into the shape of a bar of soap to lull intruders into a false sense of security.

I bathe outside so I can see intruders approaching.

I take sponge baths in my gun safe.

I have weapons of a** destruction in my linen closet.

You've never smelled my bathroom.

I hang hand grenades from my nipple rings when I shower. Well, actuall I always hang hand grenades from my nipple rings.

I bathe with a goalie mask on and a chainsaw hanging from my curtain rod.

I AM A WEAPON

Sorry, it's late for me, and I'm overtired. All joking aside, I prefer to keep my carry gun on me from dawn to dusk, and when I go into the bathroom to shower, the gun is in it's holster in my folded pants. I don't expect to be attacked in the bathroom, it's just easier for me to bring the whole set-up into the bathroom so that I can shower, shave, and get dressed efficiently. I have an aquaintance that was the victim of a home invasion. The family wasn't hurt, but even though they live in a peaceful rural location and own firearms, they didn't have time to get to the guns. Fortunately, they were simply tied up and their valuables were taken. It could have been much much worse, so I side with those who say it pays to at least consider the possibility and make a deliberate choice about what to do.

 

[ByAnyMeans]

I do not keep a bathroom gun but appreciate being armed at all times. Since moving to the Pocono mountains PA I have a Glock 26 which switches from compact to sub with a magazine change. I also have a P3AT with laser. I am carry one of these things at all times so when in the shower the gun I have is placed on the counter top.


I live in a good semi-rural neighborhood with lights, locks, and two very protective APBT. I figure those give me the warning and time to get to one of my handguns which gives me the ability to get to the shotgun in the closet. That will give me time to get to the safe full of rifles. Highly doubt I'll need the handgun much less the shotgun but I am not selling anything based of a fear of being thought of as paranoid. Especially when the bulk of those comments are the same two or three posters who continue to give snide comments but do not refute the points of other posters.

 

[Jim NE]

Didn't have time to read through all of the posts, but in case nobody mentioned it, a large ziplock bag should keep all of the humidity out. Put your regular gun in it and take it out when you're done showering. Keeping a gun in or right next to the shower at all times seems like a waste of a gun by devoting it to such specific use/duty. Also, I have smallish kids, so I don't like the idea of "gun stations" around the house.

Beyond that, I like the speargun idea. Beyond THAT, if some guy breaks in you could always step out of the shower, wink at him and say "Care to join me?" He should leave pretty quickly.

 

[MCgunner]

Beyond THAT, if some guy breaks in you could always step out of the shower, wink at him and say "Care to join me?" He should leave pretty quickly.

Prolly wouldn't work in Austin or San Fransisco.

 

[CAR-AR]

There was a time last year when a meth lab setup down the street. This is a nice place, 1 acre lots but people were losing their houses. I kept a Walther PPK in the bathroom there until the cops finally ran them out. I never had a problem with PPK but my RV gun gun (working long term in LA) was a Para P-14 that got a fine patina of rust when the weather go down into the teens. I cleaned it up and swapped it with my 645, no more problems.

 

[PoserHoser]

My shower curtain is kevlar.

that one made me laugh the most

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Being worried about being in the shower unarmed to me is paranoid....

Forgot about the shower scene in Psycho, hunh? There was a whole generation paranoid about being vulnerable in the shower.

Seriously, though, I never heard of home invaders having a code of honour that gave time outs for showers. Bathrooms are not only dead ends in the case of a home invasion, they are also bad places to be in case of a house fire.

Plus they are one of the commonest places for exposure to deadly dihydrogen monoxide.

 

[CZguy]

Beyond that, I like the speargun idea. Beyond THAT, if some guy breaks in you could always step out of the shower, wink at him and say "Care to join me?" He should leave pretty quickly.

I laughed when I read that. And it would probably work, but what would you do it he said OK.

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I live in a good semi-rural neighborhood with lights, locks, and two very protective APBT. I figure those give me the warning and time to get to one of my handguns which gives me the ability to get to the shotgun in the closet. That will give me time to get to the safe full of rifles. Highly doubt I'll need the handgun much less the shotgun but I am not selling anything based of a fear of being thought of as paranoid. Especially when the bulk of those comments are the same two or three posters who continue to give snide comments but do not refute the points of other posters.]

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I haven't seen a snide comment in this thread yet. Some of us simply don't feel the need to be armed in our bathrooms. When and where you anticipate and attack is a very personal choice that can only be decided by each of us.

I have noticed that whenever someone has a view point different than yours, you seem to feel that you are being attacked. Sir, this is a forum where we can all express how we feel about a certain topic. I do not feel a need to be armed in the bathroom, based on two good watch dogs, and having a readily accessible 870P in the next room. What you do to protect yourself is your business, not mine.

 

[CZguy]

Beyond that, I like the speargun idea. Beyond THAT, if some guy breaks in you could always step out of the shower, wink at him and say "Care to join me?" He should leave pretty quickly.

I laughed when I read that. And it would probably work, but what would you do if he said, sure.

I live in a good semi-rural neighborhood with lights, locks, and two very protective APBT. I figure those give me the warning and time to get to one of my handguns which gives me the ability to get to the shotgun in the closet. That will give me time to get to the safe full of rifles. Highly doubt I'll need the handgun much less the shotgun but I am not selling anything based of a fear of being thought of as paranoid. Especially when the bulk of those comments are the same two or three posters who continue to give snide comments but do not refute the points of other posters.

I haven't seen a snide comment in this thread yet. Some of us simply don't feel the need to be armed in our bathrooms. When and where you anticipate and attack is a very personal choice that can only be decided by each of us.

I have noticed that whenever someone has a view point different than yours, you seem to feel that you are being attacked. Sir, this is a forum where we can all express how we feel about a certain topic. I do not feel a need to be armed in the bathroom, based on two good watch dogs, and having a readily accessible 870P in the next room. What you do to protect yourself is your business, not mine. You see it's just and exchange of ideas, not personal attacks.

 

[Jim NE]

Beyond that, I like the speargun idea. Beyond THAT, if some guy breaks in you could always step out of the shower, wink at him and say "Care to join me?" He should leave pretty quickly.

I laughed when I read that. And it would probably work, but what would you do it he said OK

I live so far from San Francisco (as McGunner suggested) that I hadn't thought of that possibility. I only thought of what I'd do if I was a criminal intruder, and I'd definitely run like heck.

Of course, there's the remote possibility the intruder would be a beautiful blonde woman. But I'm afraid if she saw someone who looks like me coming out of the shower she'd ALSO run like heck.

 

[Old krow]

Yep, for me I have about the same odds of wining the lottery as having a home intrusion while I'm in the bathroom.

That's not necessarily true. While I agree, the odds are low, you're odds of winning the lottery are always the same no matter how many people play. The only thing that changes are your winnings. With crime, as the crime increases your odds of being a victim increase. If you believe that our economy is on a decline you would probably also agree that crime will increase thus increasing the odds of being a victim. Personally, I've been lied to so many times about the economy that I rarely listen anymore. In my area, the crime rate seems to be on the rise, though I haven't seen a significantly larger amount of home invasion, but I doubt that it's going to get better.

However, if I ever decided that I needed a gun for such an occasion, I'd probably just go with my carry gun. That's the gun that I practice with the most and it's the gun that I do everything else with, I see no reason to break continuity. In essence, my bathroom gun, or BBQ gun, or kitchen gun, or whatever gun, would always be the same anyway.

My g/f on the other hand sees the need in having more than one gun laying around, but believes that she ought to be well-practiced and knowledgeable of them, so she bought 3 of the same gun and probably keeps one in the bathroom.

Plus they are one of the commonest places for exposure to deadly dihydrogen monoxide.

That's okay, it can be removed with a Styrofoam cup if you become inundated by it, just be careful not to inhale it.

 

[FoMoGo]

I see people with a case of "My Gunfight".
It is... or is not going to happen in X place, or in Y manner.
I try to keep the mindset of Any Time... in Any Fashion.
Nude and with shampoo in my eyes is about the worst case scenario I can think of.
Why not be prepared for that gunfight also?


Jim

 

[Pilot]

I keep a speargun I use for SCUBA diving in the shower. Its water proof, actually designed to be under water, and is effective.

 

[ultradoc]

Here is what happened to me and what I decided to do about 6 months ago. My brother and I live in a ranch style house. We work differant shifts and with differant social lives we come and go quite often. I just got done taking a shower and was toweling off when I heard a noise. It was the side door to our house being closed. Now the nearest gun was in my bedroom which was caddy corner to the bathroom. I thought I need to make a run for it then I heard my brother's voice. Whew! Relief. So then I started to think that it would be nice to have a gun in the bathroom. Why not? I have atleast two guns in every room allready. Why not the bathroom? And this gives me an excuse to get another gun. So after deciding on a P3AT [I was familiar with it and it was small so I could hide it easy] I started to look for a hide place. Behind the toilet. In the toilet tank. In the trash can under the liner. In the medicine chest. On top of the medicine chest. On the back of the cabinet drawer where the sink was. Under the sink. So after I decided where I was going to hide it I thought how am I going to store it? I got a gun magnet,plastic zip lock sandwich baggie and a desicant pack. So far so good.

 

[NDanforth]

For the naysayers of a weapon stored in the bathroom it might interest you to know that 911 operators are trained to direct people into their bathroom in the event of a home invasion.

 

[Butch Nelson]

bathroom gun

Ultradoc, I love it, "It was an excuse to get another gun." When I was married, my x-wife never complained that I had too many guns but she did ask one time, "Why do you need so many guns?" She was really into flowers and spent hundreds of dollars on flower plants she planted in the yard. I replied to her that My having guns was the same thing as her having flowers. She liked flowers and they gave her pleasure. I said that having guns was the same for me. After that she seemed to understand but continued to not like guns herself.

 

[bowfita]

This has been a fascinating thread and I have to ask...do bathroom gunners also keep ear protection handy? We all laugh at TV/movie unrealistic handling of firearms, and my fav is the gun fight in bus/train station fully tiled bathrooms because everyone should be screaming on the floor with bleeding eardrums.

I know, I know, "I'd rather be deaf than dead", but seriously.... Perhaps this is the ultimate justification for a suppressor?