Reminder: Unloaded guns are useless. If your gun isn't on you, you don't have a gun.

http://amp.heraldsun.com/news/local/crime/article209122384.htmlJade’s brother, Eastern, said he saw two cars, parked and turned off, with nine or more people. When Chan got out of the car, Jade saw three or four people start approaching her mother.Eastern grabbed a gun and a magazine of ammunition from inside the house and gave it to his mother.“They shot at my mom at least three times,” Jade said. “My mom tried to assemble the gun.”The gun jammed, and the attackers were running up to the house, Chan said. She was trying to protect her son and wasn’t thinking about her husband who was still parking the car.“They ran away, so my mom ran back and forth trying to get my brother safe,” Jade said. “And she called my Dad, and he didn’t respond back.”Chan went to the car and saw a bullet hole in the window; her husband lay in his seat unresponsive.He had been shot twice in the face and once his neck, Jade said.I really dislike armchair quarterbacking, not going to pretend I know the details or that I could handle that situation better. Who knows if the "weapon jam" was due to improper maintenance, lack of training, a malfunction, or nerves got the better of the situation.I just can't help but wonder if the situation would've turned out better if they were carrying on body or had a firearm in the car? What if the gun was loaded and had one in the chamber? What if they had even a couple hours of training that introduced some level of stress?They obviously took the first few steps of buying a gun, who knows what their overall plans for it were. Reminds me of a Vietnamese friend telling me earlier this week that she'll eventually buy a gun for defense, but she's not going to buy bullets. A guy at my gym carries a large (unloaded?) revolver in his gym bag, he claims it's just to scare people off if they attack him.The only reason I carry is because my family members and relatives have been in similar situations several times. Most have been robbed at gunpoint at least once, several up to three times. While I've never been robbed at gunpoint my residences have been broken into three times since I've been an adult, and I ran into the burglars two of those times.However, I'm not as vigilant as some people are, I don't carry around the house, I don't necessarily have guns staged around the house, I'm fully aware I'm not prepared for a home invasion, like if I'm in the shower or something I'm pretty much screwed.People can say I'm paranoid, but I don't think it's paranoia when plenty of people around me are getting robbed. People at my job getting robbed within a block of where I work. The random guy getting robbed at knife point outside my office window while all I could do was watch since my gun was in my car (not that I would've done anything?).Or when I moved to my current residence 3 years ago, homeowner said the house hadn't been broken into since it was built in 1997. I had lived in the same development 1995-2000, it was one of the two places I've lived that didn't get broken into so I moved back (after getting broken into somewhere else). Some guy broke in two months ago, had broken into 10 houses that day, and he had been doing it all week. Sure the chances of it happening were low, it still managed to happen to me, I still had to deal with it, I do feel somewhat happy it was just a burglary, but there's still just that feeling that I can't be prepared enough. via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/2J6h5Dt