[fabsroman]

What I find ironic is that after being on this board for around 6+ years, you guys really don't know me. Yes, I have guns because I use them for fun things, but also because I have nightmares. When I lived with my parents, I had nightmares about people breaking into the house and forcing me to make a shot with my dad held hostage. I have had the same nightmare happen on the hunting field where two guys have handguns and have my dad hostage and are talking to me through his handheld. Sometimes, I am 200 yards away with the .300 Win Mag and I have to make two shots in a crosswind. Sometimes I am 50 yards behind the morons high in a treestand. Recently, I have been having nightmares about people coming into my townhouse and me having to defend my wife and baby. Sometimes they are just plain bad guys, but last night's nightmare involved bad cops. I also have another nightmare where there are masked guys outside my window involved in a firefight with the police and I shoot both of them with an AR-10. At first, that nightmare resulted in both of the perps being my brother and me being responsible for their deaths. Since those initial nightmares, it has migrated to them not being my brothers, but into all kinds of other scenarios, like a police sniper shooting at me because he thinks I am one of the bad guys, to me being prosectured and sued afterward for murder/wrongful death. The recent one about bad cops breaking in probably has to do with a protective order case I am handling right now against a police officer. I cannot get into the details, but suffice it to say that he has wrongfully threatened people with his handgun. Oh yeah, then there is the nightmare where I have webcams set up in certain rooms of my parents' house so I can make sure that they are okay, and I witness bad cops executing them because they will not open the gun safe. That dream has migrated to my brothers also seeing it via web link and them getting into a fire fight with the police and heading to my house so we can alert the media and FBI. The list of my horrible dreams goes on and on. My wife talks to me about hers, but I don't feel like talking to her about these much, so most of the time I tell her that I didn't have any. Every once in a while I will tell her about one though.

Real life, my wife and I were awoken at 5:00 in the morning to what sounded like people coming up our stairway. The dog was barking and I could hear voices. Both my wife and I were scared to death, and I was extremely glad I had the HK 9mm at hand. Turned out to be some furniture delivery men delivering some couches to the next door neighbor whose staircase is right behind our bed. Man, was that a relief.

For those of you that live in the country, I am willing to bet that the crime rate is rather low. Here, while the crime rate is pretty decent, there are some shady spots. You should see the number of child molesters that live in my area. It isn't as bad as some of the crappier parts of the city, but there are enough to have me worried about it.

"Fabs if this happened, I would probably drawn iorn on god and tell him to tell Pelosi, or whatever deamon got to him to make a deal, to stick it where the sun dont shine. God would never ask good people to do something like that without being pinched. Either that or shoot the imposter."

I have no idea what iorn means, but maybe my example was a bad one for those that do not believe in God. Your response Andy is also a bad one though. We could go back and forth about the God statement (e.g., what if it was truly God, what if would truly happen), but we all know God isn't going to come down and promise us that there will no longer be any crime if guns are taken away. If Hilary wants to make a promise to me that all crime will go away and we no longer will need a criminal Court system if we give up our guns, and she is willing to back this promise with her life and the rest of the lives of those in Congress voting on it, I am all for it. Of course, we would need to medically install GPS's in them so they can be located for execution the day after the bill is signed because we all know crime isn't going to stop and the criminals aren't going to turn in their guns. We all know that China will continue to produce guns and there will be a black market for them for all the criminals here. I don't think getting rid of guns will work, but I want my guns more for fear of the 300 lb criminal and/or the criminal that will have one illegally while I have nothing, than for all the fun times that I have had with guns.

We can continue to go on and on with this debate, but I am going to leave it alone. You guys can continue to feel like you know everything that I am about, but I don't think anybody knows that. This is one of those subjective debates where there is no right or wrong answer, kind of like the debate I am having about God in another thread, which I am going to make my last post to in a minute. We presume to know why the arabs hate us, but we have no clue. That is probably like the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys, which started over something stupid and continued for generations over stupidity.