MUSKYMAN said:
CCW is the answer...going the other way puts the country at risk.
just ask the founding fathers
Agreed. I got on a roll with the rest of this, and it isn't directed at anyone that has so far posted in this thread. I just went on, like I sometimes do.:rofl:
Ensuring that places of mass gathering are full of unarmed people that cannot readily escape does nothing but provide a perfect killing field for the individual that is bent on doing the killing.
If people carried weapons wherever they saw fit, this would not be such a problem. You would still have a shootout every now and again, but you have to remember something.
If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. This has been said many times before, but it is such a slogan now that people just don't fucking get it, so I'll put it so everyone can understand it. Get your imagination caps on for a second, here. By the way, this is all pretend
, so not to worry, but let your mind go with it.
I am blackhearted murderous bastard, for one reason or another.
Lately, I have been with you at home, but you never knew it. I have determined your schedule, after following you to work a few times in rented cars. I've seen you put your daughter in the family car in her little ballet dress after school for her Wednesday practice. I know that Saturday night, after she is tucked neatly in bed in her room with those cute lavender walls, with the nightlight on behind the new dollhouse you bought her for her seventh birthday, I have watched with interest as you and your wife stay downstairs to curl up and watch a movie. Do you know that your daughter's legs twitch when she is dreaming?
I do.
Wouldn't you like to know that someone at ballet practice is equipped to stop me when I show up to tell her that daddy sent uncle Kennith to pick her up? I'll bet she likes ice cream. The instructor tried, but when I flashed a gun she ran right back inside. The other parents never even noticed. They didn't want to notice.
How much do you hate me right now? It makes my skin crawl even typing like this, but what the hell does it take for people to learn?
People can get you. People want to get you. They want to take the things you have, steal away your children, and kill you. I've dealt with this before, it happens.
Only recently, a friend of mine was at work. His wife was at home. She, like many nowadays, thought all these guns needed to be off the street. Until one day, when she caught someone watching through her window. He immediately broke in, and she fled to the closet in her bedroom, where her husband had INSISTED she keep a shotgun. She despised the thing, and refused to train with it, demanding that it not be kept in the home.
Having no training, shotgun in hand, she was pulled from the closet, and bad things started to happen. Not a single shot was fired.
Now, she can almost outscore ME on a range, and has one of the fastest sight pictures I've ever seen. She has three guns of her own, and a stash of ammunition ready. She has qualified as an NRA distinguished expert. I know, I was the RSO when it was witnessed. She has begged me to train her in personal combat with and without the aid of a non projectile weapon.
All of a sudden, it matters to her.
Why?
Because she was too fucking blind before to see that she is the only one who can protect herself against an attack. It took a RAPIST in her own home before she learned.
There are people who would go into your children's school and attempt to murder them all, kidnap them, or otherwise do them harm. There are people who would come into your home and violate your existence, your property, even your body.
This is nothing new. It has been going on as long as humans have been around. Now, however, we have the news, and unlike yesteryear, they are no longer afraid to show you what happens in the world. As a matter of fact, they WANT to show it now, for their own reasons.
People want to believe that they have no need to protect themselves. They are wrong. Dead wrong. And it is too often learned the hard way.
It takes a crime sometimes to show people that criminals exist in their personal world as well as on television.
By attempting erode the second amendment with paperwork, people are trying to remove your ability to protect yourself from these threats. They do this because they are ignorant and cowardly. They do this because they fear the very idea that they are responsible for their own personal safety. Some do this because they know a disarmed population is an obedient population. It HAS happened before in America in areas, and it never stopped the crime. As a matter of fact, those areas developed reputations for their lawless nature. The killings never stopped, all it did was disarm the law abiding few.
I do what I please in protecting myself. No man can tell me he will provide for my safety and not be a liar. I protect myself. If that involves a gun, so be it, and damn the consequences. Call me paranoid, when your own world falls apart around you one day. People have tried to get me, and I'm still here.
If people tried to get you, would you still be here?
Cheers,
Kennith
