Every now and then, she forgets to keep the mask on and lets the reality slip through. This is who she is - wild and willful. Everything else is an act. Either she's a very good actress, or everyone is too gullible. My guess is it's a bit of both.

there is nothing wrong with owning a gun. i own a gun and i don't have 100 strangers following me around all the time.

Hollywood types are hypocritical-who knew?

Statistics can kiss my ass. I live on the edge of a ghetto because my government job doesn't pay me enough to allow me to be able to buy a house in the nice part of town. I hear gunshots at least every other week, and I've heard the police making an arrest at a house just around the corner while I was out on the porch. That's fine. We've got a military issue shotgun. The kids aren't going to be able to pick the thing up, much less shoot it (regardless, the 8 year old has had multiple lessons in gun safety, and the baby will be taught early). If anyone starts breaking in just the sound of a shotgun being cocked will probably dissuage them. If not, we've got bird shot loaded. It won't fuck up the house too bad, but it'll definitely fuck up somebody bold enough to walk in the door.

There's no way I wouldn't own guns if I was a celebrity. Remember Steven Spielberg's creepy stalker with a full-on rape kit in his car? He got into the guy's house, okay. I'm thinking Spielberg had plenty of security measures in place. I'd have fucking grenades handy, "just in case."

And I'd be willing to bet that Angie is not putting her kids in any unnecessary harm as a gun owner. That is, unless the pits them against each other in her own sick version of "War of the Worlds." In which case, I'm rooting for Shiloh. USA! USA! USA!

Having a gun increases the risk that you could get hurt with gun? OMG next they'll tell us that owning a car increases your risk of being in a car accident.

owning guns doesn't mean you don't know anything about safety.

i was thinking the same thing as not-that-guy. come on now…everyone knows that 96.2342% of statistics are made up, and the rest are misused. I know, because I took Stats I in college and you will NEVER be able to convince me that it wasn't a semseter of total bullshit.

semester* - I can spell, just not type apparently.

Guns. I gotz them.

Considering she has a 20-30 bedroom house, it's safe to say that the kids don't know where the guns are - I would bet they've never even been in the same room with them…

here's what i think.
- she knows she will ever need to use them because they have bodyguards and security 24-7.
- sounds like someone trying to sound tough and talking sh*t. of course all of us would defend our child or even someone else's with whatever we could get our hands on.
- the guns aren't anywhere where the kids could get them. probably displayed and she probably hasn't even touched them since tombraider.

Some of those who have guns seem to have an idea of this perfect scenario that will play out when the intruder breaks in, as if there would be time to (a) get the gun and (b) be sure the intruder hasn't gotten to it first. The risk of having the gun against the possibility that you'd ever be in the right situation to use it just doesn't seem worth it.

Besides, a batshit crazy intruder is still batshit crazy, regardless of how many guns you own.

"Tombraider" looks like Tom Braider. Which makes me picture Tom Cruise in Heidi braids.

Which makes me lose my breakfast.

wow. My nonexistant repsect for Jolie just went up a little. At least she's smart enough to realize her situation. How could SHE NOT want to own a gun??

AA-
Yes, statistics are sometimes innacurate, but this is only when the proper statistical method is not used. Statistics are a mathematical science. Dismissing stats because they could have been collected in the wrong manner is like dismissing geometry because sometimes people use the incorrect equation to find the area of a triangle.

BGSD, the shotgun is next to the bed. During the day, yeah, we'd have a hard time getting to it. But someone breaking in wouldn't know it was there even if they came into the bedroom. However, I'm not as worried about intruders during the day because of my dog. Rhys is a wolf hybrid and everyone that comes down my street crosses to walk on the opposite sidewalk. His bark is much worse than his bite (he's never bitten anyone to my knowledge), but the neighbors don't have to know that.

This reminds me of something I read this morning.

"USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population."

Again, a perfect scenario needs to play out in order for the gun to be useful (at night, awake in time to know the gun is needed, get to the gun in time assuming it's stored properly under the bed), essentially negating its usefulness and leaving the danger to simply having it in the house.

I wonder what's more common - violent intruders or psychotic breaks by gun owners?

That aside, I do like puppies. Imagine if everyone had puppies instead of guns!

hahahaha. funny.

I have puppies and guns. In fact, I train the puppies to use the guns.

BitchesGetStuffDone, have you actually ever USED a gun before? They are usually not complicated.

Lol, Kitchy. :)

We'd hear if someone was trying to break in the house. For one, I have a newborn, so therefore I'm sleeping lightly anyway, and husband is a light sleeper by nature. He's always waking up to little sounds, but he doesn't pull out the gun in a panic. For two, to get into the back door they'd first have to break through the locked screen door on the porch, then get through a dead bolt and locked door knob. The front door same thing, and that screen door has a badass lock. It's a small house, so we would hear something and have time to react if it ever came down to it. Again, if someone broke into the house and we weren't able to get to the shotgun first, the intruder would never know where the shotgun was to use it on us.

I understand your position. I really do. However, I think you'd start changing your tune if you lived in my neighborhood. I have some great neighbors, don't get me wrong. But after hearing "DOWN ON YOUR KNEES! HANDS ON YOUR HEAD!" at the house whose backyard touches that of the house next door to mine, I feel much safer knowing my husband can defend me and our children.

Faye, isn't their simplicity the problem that contributes to their danger? So easy puppies could use them!

But unless you sleep with it literally under your bed or you're Chuck Norris, I have difficulty seeing how someone could react to an intruder in the middle of the night (as tlatzoteotl noted would be the only time it would likely to be used) with sufficient clarity to get it out of whatever locked box (assuming proper storage) in time.

I guess if it helps someone sleep at night, then so be it, but therapy to control the paranoia is likely safer for your children.

(tlatzoteotl, I wrote that before I saw what you put so I was in no way referencing you or your baby.)

Hey, I have damn smart puppies.

BGSD, thanks for the clarification, but the fact remains that we live in a nice-looking brick house in a neighborhood full of not-so-nice houses. In our case, it's not paranoia. I personally feel like the people getting into trouble with their own guns are the ones who never took any gun safety classes and probably dropped out of high school. All I can hope is that folks with your type of paranoia aren't the ones making laws.

My "type" of paranoia? Of what? I don't own a gun. Like I've said, I don't see how they're useful, but if you do, that's fine.

More puppies!

i was going to say something but for once in my life i've decided to just keep my mouth shut. just don't tell my husband, he'd die of shock.

I saw an interesting and thought-provoking bumper sticker a few months ago:

"If guns kill people, then spoons made Rosie O'Donnel Fat."

I laughed out loud. I LOLed.

For a great lesson in weapons go see Ironman. jk that movie blows, I just can't add to this argument; except to say I support the right to bear arms, but usually people who do (own guns) scare me.

She bikes without a helmet and flies planes. Since when has she been obsessed with safety?

I shot a gun for the first time when I was 7 years old. If you lock it up and teach your kids that it's not a toy, I don't see much of a problem unless of course someone who wants to hurt you gets a hold of the gun.