76shuvlinoff
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Because when I go down the group protecting my family will be reduced by 1. I can't afford to bet their lives on that condition being "OK".
Oh, GOD! Who would not who could not fight without fear, suffer without sense of sacrifice, and kill or die deliberately, using the most effective means available to protect life, liberty and a Little Lizzie? For Gods sake, who?
A. "It's my right." Sometimes seems unexamined--not sure if the purpose is to protect myself or to uproot tyranny, but I'm sure not letting anyone say I can't!
C. "So I can save innocents from evil." To me, this seems the active ingredient in some who feel it's their duty, now that they're armed, to help people they've never met avoid being becoming victimized (or killed).
D. "So I can get home tonight." Self-defense (and defense of family); all others can fend for themselves!
MESA, Ariz. — A baby is recovering after a carjacker tossed her from a stolen car, Phoenix police said.
It happened Saturday after two armed men carjacked a woman in Phoenix. One of the men flung the woman's 4-month-old child from the vehicle while trying to escape, police said.
The pair are also accused of shooting a man in the arm during a botched carjacking attempt just 30 minutes before.
Thing is, it's not our right. It hasn't been for awhile. It's been whittled away to being a privilege requiring a permit, and in some places you don't even have that much. I'm old enough to remember when they didn't issue permits to carry, and the choice for many was to carry at the risk of serious jail time.A. "It's my right."
I haven't heard this much, but I've spoken to a sizable percentage of people holding permits, and when you read between the lines, this is a reason for them. Most are under 30 and have little or no prior experience. These are the folks who pepper me with hypothetical questions like, "well, if a bad guy's in my yard at 3:00AM and he's pointing a garden hose at me, can I shoot if I tell the police I thought it was a gun?"B. "So I don't have to take no guff off'n nobody!"
It's not my job to Protect the Innocent. That could end up costing me my life, my freedom and everything I own. Sorry, but I'm not risking that for a stranger and a situation I don't know with certainty.C. "So I can save innocents from evil." (...)to help people they've never met avoid being becoming victimized (or killed).
This is the reason I carry, and the only logical one I can see of the four mentioned. Carrying a weapon isn't an idealogical choice for me, it's a necessary precaution. I'm not law enforcement: this is to ensure that I go home alive.D. "So I can get home tonight." Self-defense (and defense of family); all others can fend for themselves!
I carry as a reminder to myself that things are not always as they seem, monsters walk among us under the noonday sun, and sometimes those things that go "bump" in the night are harbingers of ill will. I think of it as a positive action reflecting a need for situational awareness...a safety check without a means to ensure safety is, shall we say, a less than optimum solution.
IT IS MY RIGHT TO PROTECT MYSELF FROM TYRANNY.