Posted on 10/08/2001 6:48:22 AM PDT by truthandlife
I hope your emotions are in real good shape when something goes bump in the night...
Best bet; pull the covers up over your head. Yeah. That'll work.
How I would love to shove that idiot out of a car in the middle of Central Park,on a hot night in July!
Pratt is wrong here. Note the disconnect between Americans and something he terms "America," meaning the police, the armed forces...it's really much simpler than that. "America" is those Americans who are purchasing guns, and they're doing so because they aren't silly enough to imagine some disembodied entity out there in whose hands their safety resides. There are those, of course, who do fondly imagine that a National Mom is out there guarding them, and they're the ones who are in need of emotional healing. The rest of us, well, "happiness is a warm gun." I feel sorry for anyone for whom one ragged hole in the middle of a target doesn't make them feel better about Osama and the Taliban boys.
Thanks for the link. I apparently have a SIG fetish, and recently picked up yet another one -- a two-tone P245.
Sure, in a situation like this large public gatherings are not too safe - if terrorists are on the loose. But some of us Americans live in large cities and end up in large public gatherings say like in NY. If the "authorities" cannot protect a large group of people at a heavily protected location they are not able to protect any large group.
I leave the defense of my family, my person and my possessions to my self.
Good for you. And you have apparently decided that I'm against such a stand, which would be absurd.
FYI, I work maybe a mile from the Pentagon, so I've got a pretty good feel for the threat.
The commercial ended with the following sentence:
And, of course, we've got plenty of Osama Bin Laden targets and T-shirts.
Had me ROTFL.
Do not create my words. My statement of "self defense" is right in line with why there is a surge in gun ownership- others are starting to think the same.
I do not know what you do or how you do it, I do not assume.
FYI, I work maybe a mile from the Pentagon, so I've got a pretty good feel for the threat.
I spent most of my life in North Philly, I got a pretty good feel for threat and defense.
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