I haven’t shot/killed anyone in a while
(not that anyone can prove )
I honestly lost count on “My number”
It wasn’t important @ the time
and it’s even LESS important now.
I don’t WANT to kill anybody now
BUT! (There it is) You can’t hurt my family,
You Can’t take my sh–!, You can’t Terrorize
INNOCENTS ! and more recently added You can’t
INVADE OUR COUNTRY!
This rampage has to stop, other countries just rolled
over but WE WON’T. I know this. The border has been
wide open for over (2) years. They are already here.
We must take this seriously. If this woman (he he I typed WORM–
by accident and almost left it ) wants to be
rolled over that her choice. But that is NOT being an AMERICAN.
That is being a pacifist. I can’t abide.
What if OUR Founding Fathers sat back and said “Tea’s not so bad”???
just saying
Interesting statistic the largest official army is
China with 2,000,000 the largest unofficial army is the US with 393,000,000 gun owners. The founding fathers were smart men!
The odds of dying by handgun gunshot wound are not 100%. Death is incidental to getting shot. And the handguns is not the best way to assure a BG will assume room temp, we don’t live in a John Wick movie.
But, use of deadly force CAN cause death and when it’s an exchange of his/her life for mine or my loved ones I see it as a fair deal that was forced on me.
I agree with the blonde. I don’t know why everyone is picking on her. She is just following her emotions. Nobody got hurt. It was a hypothetical situation. She has her first amendment right that she is protecting. They are just picking on her because she is blonde.
I don’t WANT to kill anyone; deadly force is a last resort when all other options have failed. If I am forced to it, I will shoot to stop a threat against me and mine. Whatever the final outcome, the fault lies with the instigator.
I remember a line from some book I read a long time ago. “Most of the time you don’t want people dead. You just want them to leave you alone for a while.”
My wife is a true girly-girl, Born and raised in Los Angeles…an honest to goodness Valley Girl. She doesn’t enjoy shooting as a sport. But once we moved to NM she pretty immediately wanted to get her CCW, and she carries nearly every time she leaves the house, including at her part time “job” helping a friend in a retail shop. I wish she’d get more range time with me than she does, but she’s an accurate shooter who knows how to safely handle her little P238. She also knows how to clear and safety check most firearms. And pity the fool who decides to threaten her life (or invade our home, for that matter). She knew I owned guns back when we first met, but since then I’ve acquired a lot more, and she’s had no objection. She always asks if I’m carrying whenever I leave the house. On top of all that, she puts up with me. I’d say she’s a keeper.
That girls clearly quite sheltered. She’s almost certainly never had any crime perpetuated on her or her social circle, and probably sees it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else.
Generally what happens to change the minds of people like these is a close encounter of the criminal kind. I really hope that doesn’t happen to her though, and if it does, I hope she’s not too badly hurt…
About ten years ago, there was a young graduate student living at the dead end of our street with her Mom. Mom was getting on in years and not able to get around very well. The were hard core against all guns and any violence. They had a state of the art security system with signs posted and a “gun free zone” sign posted in the front yard easily seen for the road.
They were broken into four times in six months. The first two times the bad guys just came in waving guns around, yelling and screaming, terrorizing the girl and her mom. There was a guy outside listening for sirens, timing the response. They disappeared. The third time they hit, the bad guys were firing their weapons around the house to keep the girl and mom pinned down. They had more guys and stole everything they could carry - purses, laptops, big screen tv, cars…
They disappeared again.
The girl consulted a security specialist. She cancelled her security company subscription. She bought a pistol, took classes, learned how to use it, she re-arranged her front room and installed a huge concrete planter.
The next time the bad guys hit, she killed three of them in her foyer, two more fled the house with gunshot wounds and were later found at the hospital. They both died.
She was able to protect herself and her Mom, but the entire ordeal changed her and she just wasn’t right after that. She finished her graduate studies and they moved out.
Of course it changes you. You find out the hard way that there really ARE people out to get you, or at least get your stuff, over your dead body if necessary, and it makes you paranoid.
I was carjacked earlier this year while sitting in my car talking to my lady on the phone. I wasn’t hurt thankfully, and my car was replaced with a better model, but these days I can’t get out of that car fast enough when it’s not moving. I’ll rush my lady off the phone, she understands why. This also caused me to get my first firearm after thinking about it for years, and my head’s on a swivel when I’m outside my house, because I KNOW I’m not safe. I doubt I’ll ever feel completely safe again; such is the price of this type of “enlightenment”.
You have set your mind to two things, 1. the fact the people like that are animals and would end your life in a heartbeat. 2. Once you have made that realization you have to set your mind that its kill or be killed.
My wife had never handled a firearm before she met me.
She went shooting with me as one of our dates.
I was clear, I am a person who has firearms and I told her of my past trama and my reasons why.
She understood.
She claimed one of my guns as soon as we were married.
She now has 4 firearms total, a G2C, AR15, Ruger Mark4 22/45 lite, 10/22.
I still aquire firearms here and there… maybe not as many as I once did but I try for 1 every other month or so…
Expanding my carry guns, have gotten into 10mm, have 2 and am looking at 1-2 more at least for carry 10mm full size. Just got another 9mm in a compact and with the nee Springfield, want that in the next month or so plus another MC9 as I want it in Black.
Wife is okay with more guns coming home as long as im not spending money on them (trading labor for guns mostly).
My wifes family, not really into firearms…
My wife, into firearms and is growing…
I told myself a long time ago, I will not marry anyone who is not accepting of me and firearms.
My wife tells me she feels really safe with me wherever we go… I’m a big gentle guy, but become a danger to me and mine, my wife holds my off hand for a reason…
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