What would you do?

[itchin]

I wouldn't be surprised. I don't put gun stickers on my car for that reason.

 

[Renegade]

False Flag operation to make both gun owners and Christians look bad.

 

[sonuvaTXgun]

A vehicle parked in your drive way with gun stickers is an invitation for a burglary in search of guns.

If I was a criminal, I would refrain from hitting a house that advertises any from of defense, especially firearms. Criminals seek easy targets. I doubt your statement is true and is used by anti-gunners to attempt to instill doubt in gun owners.

-PAK-

 

[hellishhorses]

Has that ever been proven? It gets thrown around a lot, but I've never seen anything to back it up.

Seems so:

Thieves in NC are Targeting Cars With Gun Related Stickers and Cars Parked near Gun Free Zones
Thieves burglarize cars with gun-related decals | www.wsoctv.com
NRA sticker = Theft Magnet? | The Truth About Guns
Thieves Target Gun Show in Florida ? 2nd Time in a Week » The Free Patriot
Crooks targeting Mississippi Wildlife Officers' vehicles for guns (VIDEO)

 

[CrazedJava]

In general it is a bad idea to advertise you have anything expensive in your house. That's why the blinds to my home office with all the expensive computers and other electronics stay perpetually closed.

 

[itchin]

I know they hit the gun shows. There was a stolen gun thread a while back where the guys truck was broken into at the gun show.

 

[zincwarrior]

If its not a bill or gun mag I wouldn't even have opened it. I don't read junk mail of any sort.

 

[Brains]

If I was a criminal, I would refrain from hitting a house that advertises any from of defense, especially firearms. Criminals seek easy targets. I doubt your statement is true and is used by anti-gunners to attempt to instill doubt in gun owners.

-PAK-

False sense of security, big time. Coworker's vehicle was just broken into, specifically FOR his pistol.

 

[Hoji]

Seems so:

Thieves in NC are Targeting Cars With Gun Related Stickers and Cars Parked near Gun Free Zones
Thieves burglarize cars with gun-related decals | www.wsoctv.com
NRA sticker = Theft Magnet? | The Truth About Guns
Thieves Target Gun Show in Florida ? 2nd Time in a Week » The Free Patriot
Crooks targeting Mississippi Wildlife Officers' vehicles for guns (VIDEO)

I wonder if anyone will be a grown up and state "I stand corrected"

 

[robertc1024]

Y'all are gonna make me cry when I scrape my TGT sticker off of my rear truck window.

 

[sonuvaTXgun]

Y'all are gonna make me cry when I scrape my TGT sticker off of my rear truck window.

I live outside the city limits so I don't worry about it. It is unfortunate that people can't just keep their hands to themselves.

-PAK-

 

[Mike1234567]

People worry too damned much.

 

[sonuvaTXgun]

People worry too damned much.

Yep.

-PAK-

 

[BIGPAPIGREG]

I'll just flick a booger on em....

 

[hellishhorses]

I wonder if anyone will be a grown up and state "I stand corrected"

That won't be necessary. And a Gonzales Flag still lives on my rear window.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

Horribly off-topic here, but the "older man" in Ben's story is actually younger than me - just 20 years old. Not 30, not 40 - 20. Did you miss that part, or are you just that set in your beliefs that the exact age gap doesn't matter to you?

...

Doesn't matter to me how old he is if my daughter is in high school. It's also illegal.

I'm a nice guy but I will dig a hole and put someone in it if they mess with my daughters.

 

[winchster]

I'm a nice guy but I will dig a hole and put someone in it if they mess with my daughters.

Precisely. Well said indeed.

 

[benenglish]

Doesn't matter to me how old he is if my daughter is in high school. It's also illegal.

No, it's not illegal. She's 17, so the sex is legal. As for the moving out of the house, that's also legal even though a 17-year-old is putting themselves at a big disadvantage. There are some things they simply can't do until they're 18, like sign a lease for an apartment. That's why it's rare for 17-year-olds to walk away from home; they simply have no place to go. This girl didn't have those impediments.

That's the layman's version. Allow me to quote an opinion from our Attorney General that applies to this case:

While a child under 17 who is voluntarily absent from home without the consent of his or her parent or guardian "for a substantial length of time or without intent to return" may be taken into custody by a law enforcement officer pursuant to Family Code provisions, a seventeen-year-old who engages in the same conduct may not be.

A child, including an unemancipated seventeen-year-old, who voluntarily leaves the care and control of his or her legal custodian without the custodian's consent and without intent to return is not a "missing child" under Code of Criminal Procedure chapter 63 if the custodian knows where the child is located. If the custodian determines the child's location after filing a missing child report and notifies the investigating law enforcement agency, the agency has no duty to continue the investigation or to take possession of the child and return him or her to the custodian.

Full text is here: https://www.oag.state.tx.us/opinions/opinions/50abbott/op/2003/htm/ga0125.htm

I'm a nice guy but I will dig a hole and put someone in it if they mess with my daughters.

Look, I feel for you. I can remember my dad sitting on the roof of our house with a shotgun after my sister caught some boys peeping in her bedroom window in the middle of the night. She was 14 at the time.

But the simple fact is that if your daughter is 17 and she doesn't mind, she can be "messed with" legally. She can walk right out of your house or have sex with anyone she wants. Putting someone in a hole for engaging in legal activity with your daughter is not really something you want to be promising to do on a public forum.

 

[Hoji]

That won't be necessary. And a Gonzales Flag still lives on my rear window.

I did not say apologize. But to those who stated that thieves do not target vehicles with stickers, or cars at gun ranges/shows, it has been clearly shown that they do.

 

[Whisky]

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and.....James Joyce didn't write "Trees", Joyce Kilmer wrote "Trees".....