Why Carry a Gun?

[KySongDog]

I know I am preaching to the choir here but I thought this sums things up pretty well. 


PEOPLE ASK  WHY?


Why Carry a Gun?


My old grandpa said to me 'Son, there comes a time in every man's  life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's when he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin.'

I don't carry a gun to kill people.

I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I  don't carry a gun to scare people.

I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I  don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.

I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I'm evil.

I carry a gun  because I have lived long enough to see the  evil in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.

I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don't carry a gun because I'm angry.

I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life  hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.

I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed,  and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.

I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be  a  cowboy.

I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man.

I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and  the ones they love.

I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate.

I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am  inadequate.

I don't carry a gun because I love it.

I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it  meaningful to me.



Police protection is an oxymoron.

Free citizens must protect themselves.

Police do not protect you from crime, they usually investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the  mess.


I carry a gun because God gave me the Right to do so; it is  inalienable.

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A LITTLE GUN HISTORY

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to  1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up  and exterminated.

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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5  million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and  exterminated.

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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a  total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were  rounded up and exterminated.

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China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20  million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and  exterminated.

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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981,  100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and  exterminated.

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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979,  300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and  exterminated.

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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one  million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and  exterminated.

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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th  Century because of gun control: 56 million.. 

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Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and,  yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note my fellow Americans.  The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please  remind them of this history lesson.

With guns, we are 'citizens'.  Without them, we are  'subjects'.

During WW II the Japanese decided not to invade America because  they knew most Americans were ARMED!

The purpose of fighting is to win.

The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more  important than either.

The final weapon is the brain.

All else is supplemental. 

This may be a repeat to some.  Anyhow, I'm a firm believer in the 2nd Amendment!

[Hawks Feather]

Amen.

Jerry

[riverboss]

x2

[bigben]

heres a good read as well. 

"The Gun Is Civilization"

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat - it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier, works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply would not work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that Icannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation...And that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act !!

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)

[HaMeR]

Amen to that ^^^^ Brother!! 

All men are not created equal. That is why equalizers were created.

[shaddragger]

  Here's to the right to bear arms!! 

[slagmaker]

I have never seen it put in a more eloquent way

[Bopeye]

Very good gentleman. I am printing off this page, letting my wife work with the font and style, put it on some cool paper and going to frame them and have it hanging in my office at work.

Very weel done.