LiveLife
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It was scary time for sure and decades later when wife made us move back to LA basin/surrounding city due to her mother having stage 4 cancer overrun by gangs that committed home invasion robberies with multiple armed attackers (They would overwhelm even armed home owners and sometimes killed home owners when they cooperated or not due to gang initiation kills) with squatters moving into empty houses with prisons paroling inmates to these houses with weekly arrests with 7-10+ patrol cars, it surely did not make me happy with wife carrying multiple guns on person in/around the house.I'm sorry you had a rough time 32 years ago.
That doesn't mean everyone needs 20 loaded magazines for every handgun they own.
Since my work took me away from home for week-long surveys of hospitals, I equipped my wife with tactical gear/vest full of magazines for .223 initially then .300 BLK AR15s and Glock pistols along with phones and told her, if there was a home invasion that got past our three guard dogs to keep shooting until she ran out of ammo while on the phone with 911 ... sad but true reality for us ... And believe me, she had more than 10 magazines on that vest ... And I trained both my wife and sister (who later shot matches) and wife got proficient enough to hit anything that moved inside the house, fast point shooting with pistols and rifles.
Glad we moved away from that chaos to our peaceful and tranquil retirement location ... On the day we packed up the moving van to drive away, we saw the largest 15+ patrol car response bust with long line of parolees lined up against the wall in squatted house across the street ... Maybe I am a bit "sensitive" to harshness of reality because of my life experience.
Oh, I did clarify magazines "for ... defensive pistols"
So for me, I need to have enough magazines on hand for defensive pistols/rifles to fend off multiple waves of looters
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