Posted on 11/02/2024 6:50:10 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Is your life worth protecting? If so, whose responsibility is it to protect it? If you believe that it is the police's, not only are you wrong -- since the courts universally rule that they have no legal obligation to do so -- but you face some difficult moral quandaries. How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect yours, when you will assume no responsibility yourself? Because that is his job and we pay him to do it? Because your life is of incalculable value, but his is only worth the $30,000 salary we pay him? If you believe it reprehensible to possess the means and will to use lethal force to repel a criminal assault, how can you call upon another to do so for you?
Do you believe that you are forbidden to protect yourself because the police are better qualified to protect you, because they know what they are doing but you're a rank amateur? Put aside that this is equivalent to believing that only concert pianists may play the piano and only professional athletes may play sports. What exactly are these special qualities possessed only by the police and beyond the rest of us mere mortals?
One who values his life and takes seriously his responsibilities to his family and community will possess and cultivate the means of fighting back, and will retaliate when threatened with death or grievous injury to himself or a loved one. He will never be content to rely solely on others for his safety, or to think he has done all that is possible by being aware of his surroundings and taking measures of avoidance. Let's not mince words: He will be armed, will be trained in the use of his weapon, and will defend himself when faced with lethal violence.
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To own firearms is to affirm that freedom and liberty are not gifts from the state. It is to reserve final judgment about whether the state is encroaching on freedom and liberty, to stand ready to defend that freedom with more than mere words, and to stand outside the state's totalitarian reach.
I know my psyche is much more soothed, knowing I have half a dozen firearms that I can end the life of an unfortunate wrong doer.
I’m leaning toward a baseball bat against any cucks or crazy Karens who get in my face over a sticker on my truck after Trump wins and cause me to fear for my life. More rewarding and less chance of jail.
The government hired Tokyo Rose’s grandson to write this garage....
Poor yankee gun owner, he scared, he thinks he need gun to protect himself...It all in his little brain...There no boogieman, no crazy sick people...hahaha...Silly yankee see monster under bed....Be proud American, give up your gun! You have no need for them. Everything happy happy fun fun!
Yep.
But why would this guy be a psychologist if he’s mentally unequipped to figure out the nature of fear?
Only one gun ? Slackers!!!
As someone who once had to get up naked in the middle of the night and confront an intruder with only a baseball bat...
I much prefer a firearm of .45 caliber !!!
Words you never want to hear...Honey, there’s a man in our
kitchen !!!
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My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.
Guns: You don’t need it till you need it. And when you need it, YOU NEED IT!
Better to have one and not need it, than to NEED ONE and NOT HAVE IT!
“By combining social-scientific research on firearms ownership with a raft of interviews we’ve conducted, we’ve developed a theory that gun owners aren’t just protecting against the specific threat of physical violence. Owners are also using a gun to protect their psychological selves.”
You can make a similar argument about, say, life or car insurance. No specific threat.
I seriously doubt there are any firearms in Willie Brown’s former girlfriend’s house.
I have been around firearms my entire life. It has only been in the past few years have I ever thought about needing a firearm for safety
When you hear more gunfire I. The middle of town than in the woods during deer season, there’s a problem. A major problem
I would not consider the crime, car jackings, murder, gang warfare, blocks from where family members live a perceived psychological threat.
Guns are for both, but the Second Amendment was specifically written to codify that government SHALL NOT INFRINGE on our inalienable right to keep and bear arms.
Well, other than the ones in the possession of her SS contingent...
Although the article is mostly drivel, I might agree with this part. Unfortunately, most gun owners I encounter know little more than which end goes bang.
My father was a cop. Although he was an excellent marksman himself, he once told me to hit the dirt if I ever see a cop pull his gun, because it's likely no telling which direction that bullet is going.
Absolutely. If they are in my house, no bat.
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