Six reasons to go buy a gun

American Thinker ^ | 2 Mar, 2025 | D. Parker

[MtnClimber]

Roy from the Paul Harrell channel recently produced a short video with very good advice entitled ‘Go Buy A Gun.’

As he outlines in the video, you will want to check with local laws and seek out help if you’re not experienced in such matters. And we have six solid reasons to ‘pull the trigger’ (pardon the pun) on gun ownership.

[Link to video at source]

Here is a summary of his six reasons:

1. All part of being prepared.

Owning a gun is simply a part of being prepared for emergencies. Where it’s better to have something and not need it than to need something and not have it. Firearms are like any other piece of emergency equipment, the same as first aid kits, fire extinguishers, water, and long-term food emergency food supplies. You never know what’s going to happen, so having emergency equipment like firearms puts you in a much better position to survive when the excrement intersects the rotatory air distribution device.

2. Resisting the lies.

We’ve all heard them, ‘It’s easier to buy a gun than to vote’ or ‘It’s easier to buy a gun than buy vegetables.’ Those of us who have gone through the process of buying a gun – but lost it somewhere in a tragic boating accident – know those are complete lies. The infuriating thing is the perpetrators of those lies most likely know this themselves, but they don’t care.

If you’ve never purchased a gun before, you might succumb to that thinking -- at least on a subconscious level – then when someone asks about the issue and you don’t know, you might fall back on the words of the control freak contingent of our society. This is where going through the process yields tremendous benefits for you and everyone else.

[MtnClimber]

I have from .22 to 50/70 and much in between.

[Uncle Miltie]

Had an aggressive “salesman” banging on the front door and screaming, “Open up! I just want to talk.”

Replied loudly “I’m going to get my gun now,” and did.

*****

Was glassing for deer for opening day the evening before up a steep draw. As I came down at dusk, a second generation wild dog lit up barking crazy at 50 feet, from a tree line. Drew my 9mm, kept it pointed his way, and backed down the draw to the truck. He was still barking like a crazed beast as I drove away.

******

Have been to Montana about 10 times. Ran into Griz 8 times. Now I carry a Ruger Blackhawk in .357 with Buffalo Bore Outdoorsman. That round has been demonstrated to go from front shoulder to back hip and out of a good sized black bear, about 5 feet.

Had a good sized black bear walk straight through a shallow pond on Mt. Rainier straight at me and my wife to get at our lunch. We boogied, and he got a pepperoni stick.

*****

Have accidentally walked through a pack of wolves, that didn’t attack. Wolves are regularly spotted on all the mountains around where I hunt.

*****

I prefer being on the top of the food chain.

[simpson96]

Only six?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I agree that everyone doesn’t need or want to become a complete firearms expert, and agree that effective self-defense is possible with minimal training. I guess the point I was trying to make is that guns aren’t quite as simple as can openers and fire extinguishers, also that there are generally more severe consequences from screwing up.

[eyeamok]

If only I didn’t lose all my weapons in that damned boating accident...

[TangoLimaSierra]

It shouldn’t be any more confusing than operating blow dryer.

True, but a big, big part of weapon handling is safety.

[TangoLimaSierra]

I’m with ya there. Couldn’t believe the dad didn’t do anything.

[T.B. Yoits]

That’s a cult belief that a gun is like a samurai sword needing training and deep knowledge.

For some maybe but it's propaganda that Hollywood spews, starting from almost a century ago. The globalists want a disarmed population and started the lie that guns required long-term, specialized training. It's all massive BS.

Here's a 10 second YouTube video short of a kid dual wielding two Nerf handguns, raising and firing them both, hitting and sticking the suction cups on each eyeglass lense of his sister who was holding a target on a computer tablet.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RaKmSrjtrtE

Certainly some safety training needed for both of them, but proficiency? The kid's dual wielding and hitting such a target with a relatively quick draw.

[T.B. Yoits]

...than operating a blow dryer.

The Hi-Point JHP 45 has entered the thread.

[T.B. Yoits]

511 is traffic which you may want to call for traffic status either before you dig or while getting away.

[little jeremiah]

AND practice, and clean guns afterwards.

[ealgeone]

After the 1934 gun control bill we were A-OK as no one was going to go after something always our right.

*****

Yet....the 1934 bill was the first major move to take away the right to keep and bear arms.

All because someone took a shot at FDR.

[dfwgator]

I bet FDR wasn’t sad when Mr. Weiss shot Huey Long.

[FreedomPoster]

Heh, fair.

[FreedomPoster]

Sorry it’s so low.

My county went 69% for Trump, I need to look up my precinct, but I expect at least 10 points higher.

[wildcard_redneck]

1 - 5 The US government
6 The US government

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I remember former senator Phil Gramm of Texas once said at an NRA convention....

“I have more guns than I need, but not as many as I want.”

[mabarker1]

Because I want to.

[Disambiguator]

.41 Magnum is a good bear round. The problem is finding guns and ammo.

You can get a new S&W Model 57 if you have a spare $1200 lying around. Ruger catalogs Blackhawks in that caliber but it seems like they’re always out of stock.

[GingisK]

Oh man....! Just what I need, another pistol.