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To: marktwain
Several years ago, I was a passenger in a plane heading for San Francisco. I had the window seat and the guy next to me noticed that I was reading a gun magazine and he said "I would never own a gun and nobody can make me own a gun"

I said, "fine, that's your right - but you do know that you benefit from guys like me that own them, practice with them, and keep them ready?"

He was incredulous and asked me how that worked.

I said "because at least 50% of the population are gun owners, anybody who thinks that your home can be entered and your family and possessions will belong to them has to think very carefully before breaking in. You benefit because we gun owners are ready behind our doors and they have to assume that you're one of us".

9 posted on 12/09/2025 4:56:35 AM PST by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Chainmail
"I would never own a gun and nobody can make me own a gun"

Madness!

Nobody, not even Kennesaw GA actually want "make" him own a gun. His ilk are perfectly happy to make the rest of us NOT own a gun, though ...

Did he elaborate on why he refused to arm himself?

36 posted on 12/09/2025 7:16:33 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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