Posted on 04/13/2016 10:45:32 AM PDT by PROCON
There is a pistol-packing revolution going on in America. Nearly 13 million Americans have permits to carry concealed handguns — triple the number just nine years ago — and that figure is low because not every state reports.
It's puzzling that so many Americans are choosing to arm themselves at a time when the FBI tells us violent crime and property crime have been falling dramatically for two decades.
In search of handgun permit holders, I drove out to the Texas Firearms Festival, an outdoor gun extravaganza held near Austin where firearms fanciers get to shoot everything they see.
I'm not saying that being armed is gonna save your life, but at least you have an effective tool to mount some kind of defense.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Puzzling to you perhaps, but crime isn't the only concern we have.
Ummmm, yes.
It's only puzzling if you are looking at the causality backwards.
Tell us again, why do police officers, Secret Service agents, and bodyguards carry pistols?
A person with a pistol, and TRAINED in the proper use of it, is much safer than somebody who is unarmed.
Because:
1) You aren't one.
2) You don't know any.
3) You don't know anybody who knows any.
4) You're probably at least six degrees of separation removed from any.
5) IOW, you're a miserable, whinging pansy. GFY.
This guy may also be confusing cause and effect. A big part of the crime drop is that ownership of firearms has increased over the past two decades.
Does wearing a life vest make you safer? Only when you’re on a boat.
Carrying a pistol makes those who would victimize me less safe. And that’s just what it’s for, boys and girls.
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“the FBI tells us violent crime and property crime have been falling dramatically for two decades”
And gun sales and CCW licenses have been going up.......what a coincidence.
That this writer does not see the possibility of cause-and-effect in those two facts tells us a lot about the reasoning skills of the writer, and what it tells us is not flattering.
Everything they see? This dude's delusional ...
"Firearms fanciers" generally restrict themselves to inanimate targets, game animals, and vermin.
"[E]verything they see" is more the purview of Chicago gang-bangers and Baltimore hoodrats.
Don’t get too riled up my friend...it’s only npr. :>)
0bama uses horrible grammar in formal speech; his sycophants follow his lead.
Wearing a seat belt does not guarantee that you will survive a vehicle collision, but I wear one because it is basic safety equipment. The gun I carry is also basic safety equipment that I wear when going out, no different than wearing a seat belt.
MAKE you safer .... no.
But it does give you more options should an unsafe situation arise.
“... where firearms fanciers get to shoot everything they see. ...” Such is the “mind”set of NPR stooge. Stopped reading at that point.
If you train and if you are mature in thought with control of your emotions, hell yes.
And that's why I won't follow the link and read the rest of it. The excerpt was quite enough.
The Stupid ... it burns.
Cause, meet effect.
“the FBI tells us violent crime and property crime have been falling dramatically for two decades”
So you need to take my gun because of the epidemic of violence but I don’t need it because there isn’t actually an epidemic of violence...
I need my gun BECAUSE you want to take it.
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