Posted on 05/25/2024 9:21:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Never in human history has a government disarmed a people to ensure greater individual liberty and public safety.
No one really knows how many Americans regularly carry handguns, concealed or openly. The number of concealed carry licenses doesn’t tell the tale, particularly since 29 states are now “constitutional carry states.” Unless otherwise prohibited by law, Americans need no license to carry concealed weapons in those states. As I recently noted here at AT, some 36 states allow open carry.
We do know that April was the 57th consecutive month of more than one million gun sales. It’s reasonable to believe tens of millions of Americans regularly carry, and most don’t advertise the fact. But why should anyone carry?
Every year, I provide an updated rationale for carrying a handgun. The complete list is here, but here are some of the reasons:
*Evil exists and may confront anyone at any time and any place.
*Evil exists to destroy all that is kind, good and loving.
*God exists and expects me to protect myself, those I love, and those unable to protect themselves.
*Self-defense is a God-given, natural, unalienable right.
*Our country, circa May 2024, is brimming with tens — even hundreds — of thousands of terrorists. I’m ready.
*The lives of the innocent — friend or stranger — are worth far more to me and to a just society than the lives of vicious criminals and terrorists....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Because I can’t carry a cop.
The End
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
Florida is CC for CC. (Constitutional Carry, Concealed Carry)
Florida goes not allow open carry unless hunting, fishing or camping or shooting. You can open carry to/from these activities but be sure to conceal or stow it in your vehicle if you decide to stop for coffee.
I’ll have to get a CCW that matches my scuba gear that I’ll be using while looking for the pistols I lost in that boating accident.
See my tagine.
Or my tagLine.
I hate autocorrect...
Here is why:
“Fear not the night. Fear that which walks the night. And I am that which walks the night. But only evil need fear me...And gentle souls sleep safe in their beds. Because I walk the night. Carpe Noctem! (Seize the Night!)” Lt. Col. Dave Grossman from: “Why Mommy Carrys a Gun”.
I could carry a cop, but I don’t like most of them and it would also be extremely inconvenient.
More than a million being bought per month. But WHO is buying them?
these are DROS checks, which The Feds and State govs don’t have to do, so presumably Average Americans.
I carry a handgun because it’s impractical to carry a rifle.
Correct.
Also, why give up the advantage of concealment? Open carry makes you the primary target in many situations.
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(I could carry a cop)
Get the AR-15 Full Auto Cop
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That’s a lot of extra ammo. 556 isn’t heavy, but it adds up heh. Legs can only take so much.
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