And at the same time know if you wanted it, you could get it anytime?
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I am on a walk, and attacked by pit bulls. I need it now.
PS my Fort Hood reference was that none of the victims were armed to defend themselves.
And then our border is porous.
Why are you walking in an unsafe area? My wife can, and does, walk around my neighborhood at any time and she never has a problem. Part of the reason we selected this neighborhood was because it was safe. “Might happens” are only a variable if you feel threatened. Do you carry your weapon when you go for a recreational walk or when you go to the bank because you might run into a carjacker or a bank robber. Is your community that unsafe?
Remember what I said. If the government could guarantee you wouldn’t need it, why would you carry it? I grew up in a town of about 25K people that is the same size today. Nobody openly carried a gun. There was no crime. The problem is the criminals. If the government would arrest all the people that broke the law. and make jails so miserable they wouldn’t want to go back, or publicly hung them and not put them back on the streets to do more, you wouldn’t need a gun.
It’s a matter of choice. You put yourself in a position that doesn’t question your safety, and you aren’t in danger. If your street is unsafe, get the cops to make it safe. If people have dangerous dogs that get loose and attack people, destroy the animals and jail the owners. Problem solved. You aren’t threatened and you never fired a shot.
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Oh, Scrambler Bob, I forgot to reference your second thought concerning Fort Hood.
” my Fort Hood reference was that none of the victims were armed to defend themselves.”
They wasn’t supposed to have one. If the entire police force and OSI had done their job, he wouldn’t have. The rules are guided by a 1993 Pentagon regulation that dictates that weapons on military bases are only allowed to be carried for official purposes like law enforcement or sentry duty, prohibiting “the carrying of non-Government owned or issued weapons or ammunition.” So he purchased an off post handgun, illegally got it on post with intent to use it, while under investigation. But no one was supposed to have a gun, especially him. He wouldn’t be authorized as a doctor outside of downrange to have one unless required for a specific reason anyway. same as mop kit. That makes him a criminal, not a carrier of a gun.
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