How often do 3 thugs kick the shit out of you? Is that something that happens to you often?
It only has to happen once to do permanent damage
Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it never will.
You internet shut ins don't realize that there is real violence in the world and think you're tough sitting there at your keyboard in mama's basement
I'm beginning to understand now. It happened to you once, and now you are in permanent fear that it will happen again. That seems to be the source of your cowardliness. Perhaps counseling might help. While violent incidents do happen to innocent people, that is not the normal way of things. The vast majority of folks don't experience anything like that. You're going through life with the fear that it will happen again at any time. That must be so limiting for you. I hope you can some day realize that you don't have to live in constant fear, and can see the world as it really is instead of having to always hide behind a gun.
There are a significant amount of people who live in fear for various reasons. Some because where they live, work or travel may be a high crime area. But there are other people who live in fear because they are under direct threat from a very specific source, these include domestic violence and stalking victims and/or the victims of online harassment, bullies or trolls.
Fear of random crime is different than fear that someone who has been threatening you will finally attempt to carry out their threats. And while everyone does not fall into this category, it takes more courage than you could ever imagine to decide to no longer be a victim and to make the choice to put an end to the threat once and for all if it comes to that, including accepting the legal repercussions that come with defending one's life from individuals that our legal system hasn't traditionally considered a "
serious threat of violence".
I know there are people who are exactly as you describe but not everyone who arms themselves falls into that category. And truth be told, most of the people I know or associate with who carry concealed or otherwise are not living in fear, they're prepared, which goes a long way towards reducing stress, in any area of your life.
So being called a coward is like water off a ducks back to most because having the ability to end a life if necessary, in your own defense or the defense of other far eclipses any name anyone could be called. That's why the rabidly anti-gun group is the way they are. They absolutely hate that we get to make that life or death decision for ourselves.
