Why do you need to carry a gun?

[hadit]

I think the guys who use guns are like women...

Does that mean you think women are inferior or superior to men?

 

[Stormy Daniels]

I keep a gun but I don't carry a gun. I'm glad others do though. They might be in a position to save my life one of these days if someone is trying to take it.

I hate weak, spineless bitches who expect other people to take care of them.

 

[Aponi]

People need to carry guns to protect themselves and their loved ones, against radical progressive crazy scum!

That is the only way to make those mental deranged criminals understand.

That is the truth. People say that we need to get rid of guns. Before we could do that, we would have to get rid of Democrats first. After all, if I go to my convenience store at night, I don't worry about a Republican entering the store, robbing the place and hitting me over the head to take my wallet. I worry about a liberal doing that. Or if I go to my bank to make a deposit after dark. I'm not worried about a conservative wedging himself in between my car and the ATM machine to rob me. Conservatives don't do that.

So before we get rid of our guns, we would have to get rid of liberals first. But because that can't be done (Lord knows we are trying) we need to arm ourselves against these violent people.

Good point as liberals make up the vast majority of felons in jail

 

[SavannahMann]

Walking to the mailbox with a gun seems excessive to me.

Do you guys take a shit with your guns too?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Why do you need to carry a gun?

Because, fuck you, that's why.

 

[SavannahMann]

Not long ago, I walked to the mailbox, and along my route I saw a Copperhead snake. For those who are uninformed about this particular snake, it is venomous. A healthy adult probably will not die from the bite, providing that they receive medical attention promptly. However, children, and elderly, will find the bite far more deadly. Not to mention pets. Everyone on my street has dogs, and I have cats as well. Additionally my neighbor is in his 80’s, and he would probably find the bite life threatening.

So this snake was a danger to my pets, my neighbors, and the children who live a quarter mile away.

I pulled the pistol I habitually carry, and shot the snake. I was in my yard, in my neighborhood, if you can call it a neighborhood to live in such a rural area. Yet I was armed, because this is not the first wildlife threat I’ve found myself facing. We also have Wild Boar, which are very aggressive and potentially dangerous or deadly. Coyotes are heard from time to time as they roam along the wooded areas that take up a vast majority of the space out here.

I did not go looking for the snake. I did not go out of my way searching for it. I found it on my normal path, walking to the mailbox in my rural area, on my land. In my yard, the area with grass and such.

So why carry a gun? Because if I had to turn around and rush to the house to get the pistol, the snake may have moved, and been difficult, or impossible to locate. Perhaps he would have returned to the woods, where I sometimes walk, to check the property, but never in a hunting frame of mind. That snake might have bitten my dog, my cats, or my neighbors pets. It might have bitten my neighbor, the old man who has his mailbox positioned next to mine. It might have bitten a child. The best you could hope for is an expensive trip to the Emergency Room, sucking your cash out to pay for the care you would need to minimize the danger.

There is much truth in the old saying. It is better to have, and not need, than to need and not have. There are. Probably a dozen more Copperheads within two hundred yards of where I sit. In the woods, or marshy areas. Hunting and living, and just as much of a danger to the neighborhood as the one I shot. I did not break the law. In Georgia, you can kill venomous snakes, but not non venomous snakes. The experts tell you to take two steps back, and run away if you come across one. That is not my way. It leaves the problem for another. It leaves the danger for my 80 year old neighbor, his dog, or the dogs two doors down who meander over to say hello now and then.

It leaves the danger for the children, who ride their bikes up and down the dirt road.

So why do you need to carry a gun? Because there are more dangers than the odd robbery, or attempted murder. Because the world is filled with threats, two legged, four legged, and even no legs at all. With a gun, you have a much better chance of survival than without. With a gun, you do not guarantee survival, but you increase your odds dramatically.

Yes, accidents are going to happen, just as they do with cars and drivers. Yes, people are going to use the gun to criminally harm another. And yes, people who have guns are going to die before they can get the thing into play. I didn’t say it was a miracle answer, I just said it increases your odds of survival. No one can guarantee your safety or protection. The best that they, or I, can do is give you a fighting chance at survival. Be it from a Copperhead, or a Shitheaded thug. If you choose to take no action to protect yourself, that is your choice, and I’ll respect it. But do not try and take that right from others, because I won’t respect that.

Copper head snake? A critter that is slow as hell and just sits there waiting weeks and months for food to walk by, something like this here,


View attachment 255938


That’s a cotton mouth, but pretty much the same thing. Folks keep them as hobby pets. It’s pretty gay to have to brag about shooting one. Matter of fact, 90% of those bitten by them are drunk. I don’t live in a rural area, and I see more poisonous critters in one day like the one above then most people and haven’t had to shoot one. The one in the picture I moved out of my way with a stick.


And the wild bore. Did you know that they sneak into houses and eat children? They also rape white woman and spoil crops. Much legend has been written about wild bore I. America. You have yet to see a true “wild bore” what you are talking about are feral domestic stock that some retard let lose in your area so they can charge dumb fucks like Eric trump $5,000 to come shoot one. Your little pop gun wouldn’t stop one in a charge. It would keep right on running past you. Folks who get hit by hogs are typically screwing around with them and being retarded. I have killed hogs with everything from my truck to an old 98 Mauser chambered in .375H&H, but my .22 and my 35 pound bow have killed the most.
None have ever tried to get me acted I shot them, and in most of those cases I had walked right into the middle of 20 or more hogs. A Glock 17 is stuffed into my back pocket when I walk into woods, not for the little 2 foot snakes and feral domestic pigs, but for the illegal aliens who cook meth and grow dope there, it mostly I pack it Incase I get hurt. If I hear people near by I do a mag dump and holler. They won’t mis that. There is only one time I shot a hog with that Glock. It took 1 9mm 147 grain hollow point to defeat the fabled “gristle shield” and put the monster down for keeps.


Explaining like you do don’t help the cause.

FYI, my carry weapon was mentioned by another in the thread as their choice. Ruger .357 5 shot revolver. That will stop our local wild boar, and gators, and anything else threatening that I happen to run into.

Second. I wasn’t bragging. I was giving an example of the kinds of things that might make you wish you had a gun if you didn’t. I plan on heading down to my neighbors house shortly. I need to tell him how according to you, the apparent expert, his 12 year old daughter was drunk when she was bitten by a Copperhead last year. She was in her yard playing when she was bitten.

Zell Miller famously told the story of killing a nest of baby copperheads. I guess his excuse of worrying about his grandchildren was nonsense. Perhaps he just thought the kids were drunk?

In the link I posted, it told the reader, not you obviously, that Copperheads are the most likely to bite.

 

[NoVote]

I would much rather teach kids to leave snakes alone, than to go around killing them all. I wonder how many rats, mice and other vermin that snake hunted and eliminated? He was also living on and patrolling your property of other intruders you have to put up signs to warn off. There is always two side to any story. I am only a few years from 80 myself, and if I was walking through the woods, I'd have a stick and certainly could outrun any one footed snake.

 

[Crixus]

Not long ago, I walked to the mailbox, and along my route I saw a Copperhead snake. For those who are uninformed about this particular snake, it is venomous. A healthy adult probably will not die from the bite, providing that they receive medical attention promptly. However, children, and elderly, will find the bite far more deadly. Not to mention pets. Everyone on my street has dogs, and I have cats as well. Additionally my neighbor is in his 80’s, and he would probably find the bite life threatening.

So this snake was a danger to my pets, my neighbors, and the children who live a quarter mile away.

I pulled the pistol I habitually carry, and shot the snake. I was in my yard, in my neighborhood, if you can call it a neighborhood to live in such a rural area. Yet I was armed, because this is not the first wildlife threat I’ve found myself facing. We also have Wild Boar, which are very aggressive and potentially dangerous or deadly. Coyotes are heard from time to time as they roam along the wooded areas that take up a vast majority of the space out here.

I did not go looking for the snake. I did not go out of my way searching for it. I found it on my normal path, walking to the mailbox in my rural area, on my land. In my yard, the area with grass and such.

So why carry a gun? Because if I had to turn around and rush to the house to get the pistol, the snake may have moved, and been difficult, or impossible to locate. Perhaps he would have returned to the woods, where I sometimes walk, to check the property, but never in a hunting frame of mind. That snake might have bitten my dog, my cats, or my neighbors pets. It might have bitten my neighbor, the old man who has his mailbox positioned next to mine. It might have bitten a child. The best you could hope for is an expensive trip to the Emergency Room, sucking your cash out to pay for the care you would need to minimize the danger.

There is much truth in the old saying. It is better to have, and not need, than to need and not have. There are. Probably a dozen more Copperheads within two hundred yards of where I sit. In the woods, or marshy areas. Hunting and living, and just as much of a danger to the neighborhood as the one I shot. I did not break the law. In Georgia, you can kill venomous snakes, but not non venomous snakes. The experts tell you to take two steps back, and run away if you come across one. That is not my way. It leaves the problem for another. It leaves the danger for my 80 year old neighbor, his dog, or the dogs two doors down who meander over to say hello now and then.

It leaves the danger for the children, who ride their bikes up and down the dirt road.

So why do you need to carry a gun? Because there are more dangers than the odd robbery, or attempted murder. Because the world is filled with threats, two legged, four legged, and even no legs at all. With a gun, you have a much better chance of survival than without. With a gun, you do not guarantee survival, but you increase your odds dramatically.

Yes, accidents are going to happen, just as they do with cars and drivers. Yes, people are going to use the gun to criminally harm another. And yes, people who have guns are going to die before they can get the thing into play. I didn’t say it was a miracle answer, I just said it increases your odds of survival. No one can guarantee your safety or protection. The best that they, or I, can do is give you a fighting chance at survival. Be it from a Copperhead, or a Shitheaded thug. If you choose to take no action to protect yourself, that is your choice, and I’ll respect it. But do not try and take that right from others, because I won’t respect that.

Copper head snake? A critter that is slow as hell and just sits there waiting weeks and months for food to walk by, something like this here,


View attachment 255938


That’s a cotton mouth, but pretty much the same thing. Folks keep them as hobby pets. It’s pretty gay to have to brag about shooting one. Matter of fact, 90% of those bitten by them are drunk. I don’t live in a rural area, and I see more poisonous critters in one day like the one above then most people and haven’t had to shoot one. The one in the picture I moved out of my way with a stick.


And the wild bore. Did you know that they sneak into houses and eat children? They also rape white woman and spoil crops. Much legend has been written about wild bore I. America. You have yet to see a true “wild bore” what you are talking about are feral domestic stock that some retard let lose in your area so they can charge dumb fucks like Eric trump $5,000 to come shoot one. Your little pop gun wouldn’t stop one in a charge. It would keep right on running past you. Folks who get hit by hogs are typically screwing around with them and being retarded. I have killed hogs with everything from my truck to an old 98 Mauser chambered in .375H&H, but my .22 and my 35 pound bow have killed the most.
None have ever tried to get me acted I shot them, and in most of those cases I had walked right into the middle of 20 or more hogs. A Glock 17 is stuffed into my back pocket when I walk into woods, not for the little 2 foot snakes and feral domestic pigs, but for the illegal aliens who cook meth and grow dope there, it mostly I pack it Incase I get hurt. If I hear people near by I do a mag dump and holler. They won’t mis that. There is only one time I shot a hog with that Glock. It took 1 9mm 147 grain hollow point to defeat the fabled “gristle shield” and put the monster down for keeps.


Explaining like you do don’t help the cause.

FYI, my carry weapon was mentioned by another in the thread as their choice. Ruger .357 5 shot revolver. That will stop our local wild boar, and gators, and anything else threatening that I happen to run into.

Second. I wasn’t bragging. I was giving an example of the kinds of things that might make you wish you had a gun if you didn’t. I plan on heading down to my neighbors house shortly. I need to tell him how according to you, the apparent expert, his 12 year old daughter was drunk when she was bitten by a Copperhead last year. She was in her yard playing when she was bitten.

Zell Miller famously told the story of killing a nest of baby copperheads. I guess his excuse of worrying about his grandchildren was nonsense. Perhaps he just thought the kids were drunk?

In the link I posted, it told the reader, not you obviously, that Copperheads are the most likely to bite.

Hogs will run away.

Gators, don’t start none won’t be none. Simple.

3 foot snake, a stick that’s over 3 foot will move it right out of the way, or again, don’t start none, won’t be none. Simple.

 

[SavannahMann]

I would much rather teach kids to leave snakes alone, than to go around killing them all. I wonder how many rats, mice and other vermin that snake hunted and eliminated? He was also living on and patrolling your property of other intruders you have to put up signs to warn off. There is always two side to any story. I am only a few years from 80 myself, and if I was walking through the woods, I'd have a stick and certainly could outrun any one footed snake.

Glad to hear it. Mom warns of copperhead snakes after toddler is seriously injured by venomous serpent

If only the toddler had seen the Copperhead Snake near the steps to his own house. He could have found a stick and moved it away.

Oh, and my Cats hunt rats and squirrels.

 

[Markle]

Walking to the mailbox with a gun seems excessive to me.

Do you guys take a shit with your guns too?

Why is it important to you?

I'm curious if you guys are so paranoid that you feel the need to carry a gun EVERYWHERE you go.

Why do you care? Why would you call someone paranoid who you don't even know? Why do you feel entitled to call someone you don't know, names?

 

[Crixus]

I would much rather teach kids to leave snakes alone, than to go around killing them all. I wonder how many rats, mice and other vermin that snake hunted and eliminated? He was also living on and patrolling your property of other intruders you have to put up signs to warn off. There is always two side to any story. I am only a few years from 80 myself, and if I was walking through the woods, I'd have a stick and certainly could outrun any one footed snake.

Glad to hear it. Mom warns of copperhead snakes after toddler is seriously injured by venomous serpent

If only the toddler had seen the Copperhead Snake near the steps to his own house. He could have found a stick and moved it away.

Oh, and my Cats hunt rats and squirrels.

Or, or been screwing around with it. You aren’t helping the cause. You imply one needs to be wary of copperheads in the toilet when they take a crap. Score one wipes they best let three round go into the toilet with a shot gun because a copperhead might get them. The parents are like lying about what happened. Struck twice? The child had to either have been holding the snake, or had it pinned. Either way, shit happens and your tiny little pop gun would not have changed this event at all. I don’t need to invent reasons to use my god given rights.

 

[Markle]

I live in a pretty peaceful city, so never really felt the need to carry one.

I wouldn't consider women paranoid for carrying pepper spray.

Do you carry your gun when you're in your backyard or when you're in your home?

Again, why do you care?

Why don't you care enough about yourself and your family to have a gun to protect yourself and loved ones?

Perhaps this is the answer to your unnatural need to know why other people are doing and why.

Agnosiophobia is an Anxiety Disorder. It is an irrational Fear of not knowing what will happen or is happening. Management of Fear depends on making a willed decision to face the issue with determination.

 

[22lcidw]

I think the guys who use guns are like women...

Then you tell that to the dudes in the inner city. Drive bys and Bloods and Crips will talk to you about it.

 

[Mr Natural]

Then you tell that to the dudes in the inner city. Drive bys and Bloods and Crips will talk to you about it.

Spend a lot of time in the inner city do you?

 

[whitehall]

Unfortunately there are more gang members and carjackers and plain psychotics around than copperhead snakes.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Not long ago, I walked to the mailbox, and along my route I saw a Copperhead snake. For those who are uninformed about this particular snake, it is venomous. A healthy adult probably will not die from the bite, providing that they receive medical attention promptly. However, children, and elderly, will find the bite far more deadly. Not to mention pets. Everyone on my street has dogs, and I have cats as well. Additionally my neighbor is in his 80’s, and he would probably find the bite life threatening.

So this snake was a danger to my pets, my neighbors, and the children who live a quarter mile away.

I pulled the pistol I habitually carry, and shot the snake. I was in my yard, in my neighborhood, if you can call it a neighborhood to live in such a rural area. Yet I was armed, because this is not the first wildlife threat I’ve found myself facing. We also have Wild Boar, which are very aggressive and potentially dangerous or deadly. Coyotes are heard from time to time as they roam along the wooded areas that take up a vast majority of the space out here.

I did not go looking for the snake. I did not go out of my way searching for it. I found it on my normal path, walking to the mailbox in my rural area, on my land. In my yard, the area with grass and such.

So why carry a gun? Because if I had to turn around and rush to the house to get the pistol, the snake may have moved, and been difficult, or impossible to locate. Perhaps he would have returned to the woods, where I sometimes walk, to check the property, but never in a hunting frame of mind. That snake might have bitten my dog, my cats, or my neighbors pets. It might have bitten my neighbor, the old man who has his mailbox positioned next to mine. It might have bitten a child. The best you could hope for is an expensive trip to the Emergency Room, sucking your cash out to pay for the care you would need to minimize the danger.

There is much truth in the old saying. It is better to have, and not need, than to need and not have. There are. Probably a dozen more Copperheads within two hundred yards of where I sit. In the woods, or marshy areas. Hunting and living, and just as much of a danger to the neighborhood as the one I shot. I did not break the law. In Georgia, you can kill venomous snakes, but not non venomous snakes. The experts tell you to take two steps back, and run away if you come across one. That is not my way. It leaves the problem for another. It leaves the danger for my 80 year old neighbor, his dog, or the dogs two doors down who meander over to say hello now and then.

It leaves the danger for the children, who ride their bikes up and down the dirt road.

So why do you need to carry a gun? Because there are more dangers than the odd robbery, or attempted murder. Because the world is filled with threats, two legged, four legged, and even no legs at all. With a gun, you have a much better chance of survival than without. With a gun, you do not guarantee survival, but you increase your odds dramatically.

Yes, accidents are going to happen, just as they do with cars and drivers. Yes, people are going to use the gun to criminally harm another. And yes, people who have guns are going to die before they can get the thing into play. I didn’t say it was a miracle answer, I just said it increases your odds of survival. No one can guarantee your safety or protection. The best that they, or I, can do is give you a fighting chance at survival. Be it from a Copperhead, or a Shitheaded thug. If you choose to take no action to protect yourself, that is your choice, and I’ll respect it. But do not try and take that right from others, because I won’t respect that.

Excellent post, and bonus points for correctly referring to the snake as "venomous", rather than "poisonous".

 

[Cecilie1200]

Not long ago, I walked to the mailbox, and along my route I saw a Copperhead snake. For those who are uninformed about this particular snake, it is venomous. A healthy adult probably will not die from the bite, providing that they receive medical attention promptly. However, children, and elderly, will find the bite far more deadly. Not to mention pets. Everyone on my street has dogs, and I have cats as well. Additionally my neighbor is in his 80’s, and he would probably find the bite life threatening.

So this snake was a danger to my pets, my neighbors, and the children who live a quarter mile away.

I pulled the pistol I habitually carry, and shot the snake. I was in my yard, in my neighborhood, if you can call it a neighborhood to live in such a rural area. Yet I was armed, because this is not the first wildlife threat I’ve found myself facing. We also have Wild Boar, which are very aggressive and potentially dangerous or deadly. Coyotes are heard from time to time as they roam along the wooded areas that take up a vast majority of the space out here.

I did not go looking for the snake. I did not go out of my way searching for it. I found it on my normal path, walking to the mailbox in my rural area, on my land. In my yard, the area with grass and such.

So why carry a gun? Because if I had to turn around and rush to the house to get the pistol, the snake may have moved, and been difficult, or impossible to locate. Perhaps he would have returned to the woods, where I sometimes walk, to check the property, but never in a hunting frame of mind. That snake might have bitten my dog, my cats, or my neighbors pets. It might have bitten my neighbor, the old man who has his mailbox positioned next to mine. It might have bitten a child. The best you could hope for is an expensive trip to the Emergency Room, sucking your cash out to pay for the care you would need to minimize the danger.

There is much truth in the old saying. It is better to have, and not need, than to need and not have. There are. Probably a dozen more Copperheads within two hundred yards of where I sit. In the woods, or marshy areas. Hunting and living, and just as much of a danger to the neighborhood as the one I shot. I did not break the law. In Georgia, you can kill venomous snakes, but not non venomous snakes. The experts tell you to take two steps back, and run away if you come across one. That is not my way. It leaves the problem for another. It leaves the danger for my 80 year old neighbor, his dog, or the dogs two doors down who meander over to say hello now and then.

It leaves the danger for the children, who ride their bikes up and down the dirt road.

So why do you need to carry a gun? Because there are more dangers than the odd robbery, or attempted murder. Because the world is filled with threats, two legged, four legged, and even no legs at all. With a gun, you have a much better chance of survival than without. With a gun, you do not guarantee survival, but you increase your odds dramatically.

Yes, accidents are going to happen, just as they do with cars and drivers. Yes, people are going to use the gun to criminally harm another. And yes, people who have guns are going to die before they can get the thing into play. I didn’t say it was a miracle answer, I just said it increases your odds of survival. No one can guarantee your safety or protection. The best that they, or I, can do is give you a fighting chance at survival. Be it from a Copperhead, or a Shitheaded thug. If you choose to take no action to protect yourself, that is your choice, and I’ll respect it. But do not try and take that right from others, because I won’t respect that.

The only guns I have or wish to have are staple guns and caulking guns. Ones for purposes of construction, not destruction. I just can't go through life looking over my shoulder for "threats" --- wouldn't ever want to live that way.

Have you read any of the posts? None of us are looking over our shoulders for "threats". No we are not living that way. Once again you purposely inject a LIE when several posts say they exact opposite. That shows a distinct lack of character.

I wouldn't trust you with either a caulking gun, nor a staple gun, nor a water pistol for that matter. You can't trust yourself so don't think others should. Sad. I wouldn't live that way.

I have a gun because I was the victim of a violent criminal, and without being armed, I WOULD be looking over my shoulder for threats constantly. Being vulnerable has that effect. Instead, I need only exercise prudent situational awareness, rather than being paranoid.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Here in northern Virginia, nobody needs to carry a gun to go shopping or dine at a restaurant..

Yes, no one EVER needs to worry about crime . . . until they're in the middle of one, and then it's a bit too late.

 

[Pogo]

Not long ago, I walked to the mailbox, and along my route I saw a Copperhead snake. For those who are uninformed about this particular snake, it is venomous. A healthy adult probably will not die from the bite, providing that they receive medical attention promptly. However, children, and elderly, will find the bite far more deadly. Not to mention pets. Everyone on my street has dogs, and I have cats as well. Additionally my neighbor is in his 80’s, and he would probably find the bite life threatening.

So this snake was a danger to my pets, my neighbors, and the children who live a quarter mile away.

I pulled the pistol I habitually carry, and shot the snake. I was in my yard, in my neighborhood, if you can call it a neighborhood to live in such a rural area. Yet I was armed, because this is not the first wildlife threat I’ve found myself facing. We also have Wild Boar, which are very aggressive and potentially dangerous or deadly. Coyotes are heard from time to time as they roam along the wooded areas that take up a vast majority of the space out here.

I did not go looking for the snake. I did not go out of my way searching for it. I found it on my normal path, walking to the mailbox in my rural area, on my land. In my yard, the area with grass and such.

So why carry a gun? Because if I had to turn around and rush to the house to get the pistol, the snake may have moved, and been difficult, or impossible to locate. Perhaps he would have returned to the woods, where I sometimes walk, to check the property, but never in a hunting frame of mind. That snake might have bitten my dog, my cats, or my neighbors pets. It might have bitten my neighbor, the old man who has his mailbox positioned next to mine. It might have bitten a child. The best you could hope for is an expensive trip to the Emergency Room, sucking your cash out to pay for the care you would need to minimize the danger.

There is much truth in the old saying. It is better to have, and not need, than to need and not have. There are. Probably a dozen more Copperheads within two hundred yards of where I sit. In the woods, or marshy areas. Hunting and living, and just as much of a danger to the neighborhood as the one I shot. I did not break the law. In Georgia, you can kill venomous snakes, but not non venomous snakes. The experts tell you to take two steps back, and run away if you come across one. That is not my way. It leaves the problem for another. It leaves the danger for my 80 year old neighbor, his dog, or the dogs two doors down who meander over to say hello now and then.

It leaves the danger for the children, who ride their bikes up and down the dirt road.

So why do you need to carry a gun? Because there are more dangers than the odd robbery, or attempted murder. Because the world is filled with threats, two legged, four legged, and even no legs at all. With a gun, you have a much better chance of survival than without. With a gun, you do not guarantee survival, but you increase your odds dramatically.

Yes, accidents are going to happen, just as they do with cars and drivers. Yes, people are going to use the gun to criminally harm another. And yes, people who have guns are going to die before they can get the thing into play. I didn’t say it was a miracle answer, I just said it increases your odds of survival. No one can guarantee your safety or protection. The best that they, or I, can do is give you a fighting chance at survival. Be it from a Copperhead, or a Shitheaded thug. If you choose to take no action to protect yourself, that is your choice, and I’ll respect it. But do not try and take that right from others, because I won’t respect that.

The only guns I have or wish to have are staple guns and caulking guns. Ones for purposes of construction, not destruction. I just can't go through life looking over my shoulder for "threats" --- wouldn't ever want to live that way.

Have you read any of the posts? None of us are looking over our shoulders for "threats". No we are not living that way. Once again you purposely inject a LIE when several posts say they exact opposite. That shows a distinct lack of character.

I wouldn't trust you with either a caulking gun, nor a staple gun, nor a water pistol for that matter. You can't trust yourself so don't think others should. Sad. I wouldn't live that way.

I have a gun because I was the victim of a violent criminal, and without being armed, I WOULD be looking over my shoulder for threats constantly. Being vulnerable has that effect. Instead, I need only exercise prudent situational awareness, rather than being paranoid.

That's interesting --- I too was the victim of violent crime, and had guns pointed at me (two different incidences) and neither one for a moment led me to conclude I should jump into the same game.

In the latter incident, if I had followed the credo of the gun fetishists that populate this site, depending on my aim one or two cops would have been dead along with me.

I guess it's true --- you don't douse a fire with gasoline. Who knew.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Then you tell that to the dudes in the inner city. Drive bys and Bloods and Crips will talk to you about it.

Spend a lot of time in the inner city do you?

I'm not in the inner-city, but I am in the ghetto. Thank your liberal politicians for that and their HUD program that brings criminals to your once safe suburb. That's why I now have to carry one at night.