Reply #35: uh, yeah [View All]

[iverglas]

Do I look irrational?

You don't know if they are coming for you or just to steal your TV.

Well, no. But since I'm not either a paranoid loon or an undercover CSIS agent with enemies in the gunrunning trade, for instance, I think I would have a pretty good idea.

You don't know if there is more than one person out there

Hey. All the more reason not to stick around and find out, I'd say.

and having left the safety of your home

Yes ... the safety of my home with an uninvited late-night guest in it ... or seven, or fifteen, or however many of them you're imagining there.

you are now at their mercy unless you can outrun them.

Noooo ... I am now at their mercy if I happen to be an undercover CSIS agent and they're gunrunners come to get me. Otherwise, I'm a member of the public whom nobody is actually gunning for, out in PUBLIC where I am extremely unlikely to be followed by anyone who isn't looking to get into big trouble.

If they are not put off by your presence they should be considered dangerous.

Sure. They'd also be figments of my imagination, but that obviously wouldn't be dissuading me from doing what I gotta do.

If you have a gun, fetch it before challenging them.

I don't so I won't. In this imaginary world we are temporarily inhabiting.

They don't need to know you have a gun until they actually break in.

Well, there's something to that. Because even if "they" have guns themselves, the idea of getting another one might be kinda appealing, and there's no point in giving them an incentive to come on in.

Mind you, if my actual aim is to keep them out, which I was thinking it was here, telling them I had a gun might actually achieve some effects in that direction. And I mean, if I expect to be able to win whatever battle ensues if they do enter, why worry? Telling them I had a gun might keep them out, and if it didn't, I'd still have nothing to worry about.

What are you going to do if the bad guys call your bluff by insisting you introduce them to Billy-Bob and...

Well, since I'd be out on the front sidewalk by that point, I probably wouldn't hear them.

US cops are going to pronounce that you got what you deserved

Aha! God died and appointed "US cops" to take over? Jeez, up here, we don't assign the job of deciding who got what who deserved to cops. Funny way of doing things you seem to have down there.

But then, I kind of suspected that much already.