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[taltyman]

AceTechno previously said:

I can't tell you what to do. However carring around a loaded gun is not a good thing. To much temptation to use it to start a gun battle or for crime. Not to mention if it gets stollen then what do you do? I have been around guns all my life. I would never carry one in the car of any kind or size. If I get car jacked, I would be more than happy to hand over my keys. There was a story that broke about 6+ months ago here in Socal. Off duty police officer was driving home from picking up his boy from day care. Some how his off duty weapon became visable from its concealed location under the seat. The boy sitting in the back seat picked up the gun and pointed it into the seat and pulled the trigger. A bullet was in the chamber and the gun discharged. The off duty officer was taken to the hosptial where he latter died. I have little kids at home they don't even know that I own a few guns. And they don't need to know. Good luck with what ever you decide to do.

Exactly the reason we've never considered one before. However being 6' 2 and 200 lbs does me less and less good since I'm closing in on 60. We raised 4 daughters and I always told them to drop their valuables, run and scream. I can still do 2 out of 3 of those pretty well. Again we are still just kicking this around but as we get older then we feel less and less confident without some type of equalizer.
Seems like I saw something about some that you had to wear a special ring to enable the gun to fire. Of course if those may be out of my price range.

Speaking of safety.

Not to hijack my own thread but for those of you with swimming pools... about 15 years ago we had a house with a pool and one day our young son was playing around kicking a soccer ball up against the wall of our house. We were watching TV and could see about 1/2 our pool through the sliding glass doors. My wife realized that she had quit hearing the soccer ball hit the wall and went to check on him. I'll never forget her scream and the sinking feeling I felt. She found him floating face down in the pool and when she first picked him up his clothes were so wet and heavy that she dropped him back in. She got him out and I started CPR while one of our daughters called 911. He wasn't breathing or responding and his face was grey and his eyes were rolled back in his head (another mental picture burned in my memory). As I was doing CPR I managed to get him to cough up some water once. The fire dept. made it in a few minutes and took him into the ambulance to work on him there. As I went to get my truck so we could follow them to the hospital someone asked me what happened and I can remember hearing myself say that my son had drowned.
He spent 3 days in an induced coma and I think about 12 days in the hospital, I don't remember how many in the ICU. The first time they tried to bring him out he couldn't breathe well enough on his own so they put him back under. He denies it now but he told us about the white light that you hear about people experiencing during near death.
He is adopted and was a special needs kid that we got when he was born (we were foster parents and later adopted him). He survived but lost some motor skills. He'll be coming to Ouray with us and is 21 now. So if you have a pool make sure that there is a fence and gate between your house and the pool. That was the first mod I did to that place when it was over. No matter what he does in his life I'm grateful to the Lord for giving him back to us.