Why I 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 just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess. Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin'. ... author unknown (but obviously brilliant) Remember the average response time to a 911 call is over 4 minutes. The average response time of a 357 magnum is 1400 FPS. When seconds count, the cops are just 4 minutes away.
Good list..... I carry a gun because cops are too heavy to carry around everywhere I go..... and it makes them angry when you try.
Yeah, and ever try to find a "holster" to fit a good cop into? They're as scarce as hens teeth! Both: the holsters and the good cops! (what am i sayin'? I used to wear a badge, and now oldest son does!) Go figure!
I carry a gun because I am a law abiding, tax paying citizen who refuses to become a victim. Bottom Line.
twice in my life, a pistol has allowed me to keep my possessions and my life (thugs with knives wanting to rob me). and once a pistol has allowed me to stop a violent beating of a woman i didn't even know. all without a shot being fired. I have never shot anyone, but believe i can if i have to. my only lingering thought about it all is..... i let the thugs drop their knives and run..... if i had shot them they would never had tried to ever rob anyone again. i let them live, what did they do after???
I heard it expressed this way once: The most fundamental right you have is your right to your life. If you don't have the means to defend that right, then you don't have it. Quoting a Detroit radio talk show host.
I know this isn't the real or even main reason, but with all the Pit Bull attacks here in Central Texas, it is a very good reason to carry a gun. There even people in our neighborhood that have them, and I go to red alert when I see them, expecially when walking my dog. In the last year or so there have been four children killed by pit bulls, and even more attacks. Every last owner said: "I don't understand it, (dog's name) has never growled or threatened anyone in his/her life." Same old song I guess. jim
