Sleeping with a gun under your pillow?

[harrv]

When considering the scenario of waking up with a bad guy standing over me, I would assert that figuring out how to wake up sooner is much more important than where I keep my firearm at night.

In my case, anyone coming through a door or 1st floor window will result in a 120-decibel alarm sounding--hopefully giving me enough time to wake up and grab my shotgun before I have to worry about machete blades.

Putting alarms on your doors and windows is less expensive than many people realize, and doesn't require a monthly fee unless you want the police called automatically.

 

[griff383]

I slept with a handgun under my pillow while serving in Iraq, it was an old Browning 9mm that we took off of insurgents. My M16 was an arms reach away and condition RED at all times.

We lived outside the wire and my thinking is that the fight could be at my rack very quickly and without notice. In that situation the pros far outweighed the cons but the fear of an AD/ND was still there.

I have an alarm system and a dog, if the bad guy can outwit those and get the best of me then he deserves to win.

 

[mokin]

I tried that for a while until I realized that it would never be there when I woke up. Now I have a pistol stashed nearby and a couple of border collies.

 

[Scipio Africanus]

A gun in the bed seems like a bad idea. I keep a handgun on the night stand and a shotgun by the bed. And nothing gets by the two dog security system.


For humor and illustration, I share the following.
My great-great grandmother slept with a S&W .38 under her pillow for years. I remember my great grandmother telling how she was just terrified that her mostly blind, mostly deaf and partly senile "Mama" was going to shoot her in the night. "Mama" did use her revolver once to protect the house from a burglar, and from that time on, she became somewhat of a legend in her small Alabama town.