I disagree. The bad guy would actually have to get close to you and work hard to kill you. Guns give cowardly killers the luxury of distance.
I’ve seen that bumper sticker and it always leaves out the police, the national guard, and our army. Why is that?
Wow…I think I agree with you there.
Using a Shakespeare reference to bash liberals!? How elitist!
Well said sir! You are exactly correct. Our dearly beloved Representatives from Sodom-on-the Bay (San Francisco) Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, are extremely anti-gun, but are both CCW holders. Hypocracy. IMO, Rosie O is protected by nature, like a skunk.
First off, most criminal shootings actually occur at very short distances since most occur inside rooms. So they are very close. However, I spent the summer in the UK this year and every day there were news reports of knife attacks. Someone there told me, and I did not confirm this, that knife attacks are 8 times more likely to occur in the UK than in the US.
Because it is referring to civilian owned arms!
Namanui, Koza BC Street, Old Koza, Kin Village. Please you are making me nostalgic for days gone by. The young sailors of today just do not have the cultural advantages that we had.
You seem to confuse prudence with fear. Two different things. There are probably people who have a rational need to carry a gun, and are not doing out out of fear. But then, when a person admits he carries a gun so as to not be afraid, one has to pity such a person.
Two errors there. First, I normally vote libertarian. I recognize that there are people who are so frightened of their fellow man that they need to carry weapons to assuage the fear. I don’t hate them, I pity them.
I grew up in a rural area, hunted, shot guns for pleasure, and was good enough that I had to only go to the range once to convince my TI that I could use a rifle effectively.
Violent crime has declined precipitously in the last few decades. The homicide rate was much higher a hundred years ago, and much, much higher a few hundred years before that.
We don’t. It turns out kids are safer in public schools than almost anywhere else. But it’s not about the kids, is it?
Because some people are ideologically so fixed on their own agenda that they don’t care about the actually level of hazard.
This is the sort of irrational and self-destructive fear that is seen in people who must have a gun to not be afraid. Ironically, as society has become safer, some people have reacted to it the way an alcoholic regards the closing of more and more taverns.
I think the point is that you confuse prudence with fear. Specifically, many here explain why they carry a handgun only to have you label them as doing out of fear. FYI - That is too close to calling someone a coward and is usually considered rude. Better to take people at face value.
I think the point is that you confuse prudence with fear. Specifically, many here explain why they carry a handgun only to have you label them as doing out of fear. FYI - That is too close to calling someone a coward and is usually considered rude. Better to take people at face value.
Exactly. Sir Knight explained himself quite well, Barbarian seems to want to belabor the point. Fine, if you do not feel the need to be prepared, then do not carry or even own a gun. Hopefully, if the lives and safety of you or yours is ever threatened, someone better prepared will come to your aid.
BTW, a bolt-action .22 is not nearly enough gun to take out your average thug, unless you get a good head shot. No stopping power.
Well under this ridiculous school district all we need is for a teacher to lose his cool and start shooting with the children having no way to defend themselves. We can think of better ways than this stupid idea.Goofyjim,
You are well named.
Well, just to go along with your line of reasoning, let’s just give all the kids guns too. That’ll take care of those goofy teachers.
That is not my line of reasoning. Find a way to keep the guns out of schools. Don’t arm the teachers and scare the wits out of the children. I would homeschool any children for that reason alone.