Indiana's Castle Doctrine

[Thor]

That's like asking someone a question and then walking away without waiting for an answer...just wasting folks time (and apparently you'll never see this...).

 

[cosermann]

Sayonara, Sora?

 

[HoughMade]

Had the OP been trying to goad the gun nuts into saying something stupid, I doubt that he/she would have complained about the way he/she was treated. Rather, they probably would have submitted further bait, which they didn't.

I have visited other forums (firearms and otherwise) to ask a question, and then I don't return for a long time, if at all, and there were no nefarious intentions.

That sounds like something one of them​ would say.

 

[rhino]

And like Elvis the OP has left the building.

So how do we know that? I don't see shooter status, so . . .

 

[chezuki]

Maybe he’s using the ingo “cry closet”.

 

[rhino]

Maybe he’s using the ingo “cry closet”.

. . . which is . . .

 

[HoughMade]

Maybe he’s using the ingo “cry closet”.

He?

 

[chezuki]

. . . which is . . .

Down the hall on the left.

 

[chezuki]

He?

Assuming...

All the other ingo’rs with girly anime avatars have been male.

 

[HoughMade]

Assuming...

All the other ingo’rs with girly anime avatars have been male.

I wasn't really going off of the picture.

 

[chezuki]

I wasn't really going off of the picture.

:shrug: Male is usually a safe bet on a gun forum, though obviously not a guarantee.

If the user ever returns, perhaps you can perform the Crocodile Dundee “gender test” and let us know.

 

[rhino]

Still not getting how we know he's no longer here.

 

[chezuki]

Still not getting how we know he's no longer here.

We don’t, but he/she/whatever does not appear to be posting anymore.

 

[cosermann]

Profile says last activity was a week ago.

 

[JettaKnight]

Still not getting how we know he's no longer here.

Well, that depends on how you define "here":
Is it:
(A) Posting.
(B) Logging into the system.
(C) Making anonymous http request to read publicly available pages (i.e. reading this thread, or lurking)

 

[HoughMade]

Wait...do we now need to prove everything we say with admissible evidence? Gut feelings are out?

....who's going to be left posting?

 

[Joniki]

She/he joined the forum a year ago. She/he made a post and got blasted.

I just can't understand why she/he disappeared...

 

[chezuki]

How dare you presume gender is binary...

 

[Thor]

Is binary a gender now?

 

[ru44mag]

I'll give you a straight answer. It depends. How sure are you that the guy is "trying to bust down" the door and isn't a drunk college student who got the wrong address? Do you want to kill that person and deal with the years of legal hassle even if it turns out that it was reasonable? Maybe it's a police officer serving a warrant...with the wrong address. Want to kill him? It's a good way to end up dead...even if you were perfectly within your rights. I could come up with all kinds of crazy scenarios, but the world is a crazy place. It's great to study what the law is; we all should and I encourage you to follow though on that. However, what the law is but one factor in determining what you should do in a given situation.

MY rule, for myself, not giving advice, is that I am not going to shoot unless I can see the attacker and am reasonably sure he's an attacker. Should the situation arise, might I violate my own rule? Sure, but that's where I start. Unleashing bullets through a door does not comport with safe gun-handling. Is your friend/roomie allowed to legally possess a firearm? In Indiana a gun is not registered and, therefore, is not restricted to the owner as the person who can use it. However, there are other laws that affect whether a person may possess the gun. There is no licensing requirement for one's own home. I can't give you or your roomie legal advice about your specific situation as I do not know all the facts (and I have no $$ in hand). However, for myself, I am not comfortable having a gun accessible to someone else for self-defense purposes unless I am comfortable with that person's training and knowledge of the law. That's me, not law.

...and please don't be touchy about this. You would have no way of knowing this, but some of the issues you raise are "hot button" issues in the gun community. We (INGO) has no history with you and many are wary, in the current climate, of those who may just trying to get gun owners to say incorrect or inflammatory things to make some sort of splash on social media or something. It's no accusation against you. A question about shooting through a door may be seen by some people as trying to illicit "shoot first, ask questions later" posturing in answers. We are not fond of the notion that some people think that's what we are about, so even if it's not an accurate assessment of the questions, we can get a little prickly if it even seems to go down that road. Your questions were not outrageous, but there are those who would just love it if gun owners can be portrayed as "blood thirsty" or "just looking to shoot someone." We are not anxious to give these people fodder.

...then there's the fact that some of us are just crotchety, socially inept, loaners with operator beards who just can't take anything at face value and don't know how to pretend to be normal in front of new people...

Welcome. I hope you stick around.

Very nice, well thought out response. You probably have charge $150 for less work. Too bad the OP got her feelings hurt and left before she could read it. Just kidding. My guess is, rather than spend the time to research, she got lazy, and asked INGO. I have been guilty of that offense myself. She might come back.