The Glade 4.0

Absolutely. My only point is that speed of readiness and risk of mistake are linked, which often gets glossed over in discussions like this.

RD, when I lived alone, I didn't feel I required a firearm. Now that I have a wife and children, I have the need to protect more than just "stuff". When you live in a nice neighborhood in a progressively more shitty region, the realization hits you that people come to your neighborhood for reasons that aren't always above board. As for the moving - it's in the works.

No they aren't "linked". It increases the possibility of accident, there is no causal link in any meaningful sense.

Yeah, I get that. I've lived in a couple of spots that were on the edge of sketchy, such that people wandering over from the truly sketchy area was not uncommon, and I definitely would have been more nervous if I'd had a wife and kid with me.

I guess I just tend to come away from conversations like this with a sense that some people are far more focused on potential dangers than I am. I mean, I do shoulder checks and casual threat assessments of suspicious-looking people when I'm out and about at night, but in my own home, I just don't feel the need to always be at the ready. *shrug* Maybe I'm naive about the risk of home invasion.

I was called paranoid before for carrying.

Just because the government isn't after you is no reason to call other people paranoid.

Do ever want to just grab someone and say...WTF is wrong with you?

Do ever want to just grab someone and say...WTF is wrong with you?

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

We all know about your prowess in all things "manly" (you've told us repeatedly), but not with reading what people write. What is wrong with mentally preparing to defend yourself while checking for your wife and scanning to see what made the noise?

Maybe I'm getting hung up on the phrasing, but when I read "woke up last night ready to shoot somebody" what that conveys to me is that he woke up ready to pull the trigger. That in my mind is not the same as "mentally preparing to defend yourself while checking for your wife and scanning to see what made the noise."

That combined with his comments of needing to do more drills led me to believe that he was either not being able to process all those good mental and physical preparations quickly enough or was bypassing them and getting into a hair trigger state too quickly. Either of those is bad for different reasons.

Literally. I woke up to the sound of something clanging near our door. It jolted me awake and I was already mentally preparing for the motions needed to get my gun, cock it, and find the target. As I was doing that, my arm jolted over to where my wife sleeps next to me and she wasn't there.

This seems contradictory, DE.

Maybe I'm getting hung up on the phrasing, but when I read "woke up last night ready to shoot somebody" what that conveys to me is that he woke up ready to pull the trigger. That in my mind is not the same as "mentally preparing to defend yourself while checking for your wife and scanning to see what made the noise."

That combined with his comments of needing to do more drills led me to believe that he was either not being able to process all those good mental and physical preparations quickly enough or was bypassing them and getting into a hair trigger state too quickly. Either of those is bad for different reasons.

I never said it didn't occur to you. Note my 3rd sentence. All I'm saying is that as you make it easier to quickly shoot a firearm in a panic situation, you also increase the risk of accident. Now, it's very possible to manage that risk through training, and it sounds like you are planning on doing that which is good. However, doing one without the other is asking for trouble.

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Literally. I woke up to the sound of something clanging near our door. It jolted me awake and I was already mentally preparing for the motions needed to get my gun, cock it, and find the target. As I was doing that, my arm jolted over to where my wife sleeps next to me and she wasn't there.

Turns out she knocked make-up over while she was fumbling her way to the door. It took me an hour to settle back down and get back to sleep.

This was the first time I've ever been awoken and been ready to act like that. Sadly, I still felt less than prepared. I keep my piece in its box under my bed. I'm starting to think I need to keep it in my nightstand or sandwiched between the mattress and headboard. I also feel like its time to run drills too.