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Sometimes I swear I just don't understand people. At all. What the heck motivates some of these people I know to do the things they do?!

Well, anyway. Happy St. Patrick's Day (a day late), everyone! I celebrated by wearing all of the Irish jewelry that I own, and reading the Irish Travel Guide that I recently bought. In it I found out how to say "good night" in Gaelic--oíche mhaith, which is inexplicably pronounced 'ee-ha-vah'. Go figure. Gaelic and Welsh are facinating languages, but I'm SO GLAD English makes at least a little more sense.

This news deserves a celebration: my parents and brothers are packing up for a week in Texas and leaving me here, so that I can work and take care of my grandparents. I will enjoy a week alone being Independent and Adult and Now Having Anyone To Tell Me When To Go To Bed, and I have already started making a list of Things To Do While Every Is Gone, including things like eating meals consisting of nothing but cheese, bacon, and icecream, and renting lots of movies.

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Umm.. about guns. Firearms which are kept for the sole sake of a house's security (as opposed to, say, a hunting rifle that is actually used once in a while) statisctically make the house less secure. Accidental deaths/injuries cause by domestic firearms are much more frequent than actual cases of defense. You don't need firearms. Things like steak knifes, cast-iron skillets, lamps and other real-life-tools-also-useable-as-bashing/stabbing-weapons can be arranged to where they are easily accesible in just about any room... but since they actually serve a practical purpose, they are much less likely to cause unintended harm. Ha! This coming from a soilder.

Yours in Christ,
Jake

Oh, we use our guns regularly, don't worry. =) Mostly for target practice, but they're kept up and always safe and operable. For me, though, I'd probably have better luck with, say, a skillet, because when I'm nervous I don't aim as accurately as I would like. Also, skillets wouldn't leave bullet holes in the wall. *grin*

What would you suggest though in cases where the thief has a gun? Should we make a mad dash for him with the steak knife? Or just hide and pray to God that he doesn't find us?

Otherwise we're left with... maybe a katana? At least then we'd only have to be within 9 feet of the dude. :)

As I said, I believe household guns do harm more often than good. I think for every case where one is used to defend a house against an armed robber (like you described) you also have several cases of accidental death and injury. Statistics are statistics... you can say "well my househould won't be one with accidents" but no one plans on having such accidents.