Sadly it is not just moms. A friend (distant friend) commented the other day there are very few people he would trust to have a gun around himself and/or his family. Sad. What he doesn't know or realize is he has stood right next to me while I had a 9mm in a CC holster. He and his kids have walked the same supermarket aisles while I was carrying. What he doesn't realize is I am contributing in a positive way to his and his family's safety. No charge. You know what, don't even thank me, just don't try to disarm me based on your groundless fears.
Funny thing is, anti gun types often try to belittle people who own/carry firearms with "what are you afraid of?" Well, seems they are projecting their own fears. Me, I don't fear my fellow man, I don't fear him/her being armed. I don't think my neighbors or the person in front of me at the checkout is going to suddenly decide I need to die. So I do not fear their being armed.
I don't understand the fear, the abject, irrational fear of people that anti-gunners harbor. Are they really that paranoid that they think anyone and everyone may be out to get them? Do they really fear people (friends, neighbors, coworkers, etc) who aren't defenseless and under oppressive control of some ... other force? Do they really want us all disarmed? Are they that deluded as to think that will make us all safer?
Maybe they fear the accident/untrained/irresponsible gun owner? (what I think my semi-friend may have been thinking of) That is a valid concern but no reason to disarm everyone. He thinks nothing of packing his family into the SUV and driving down the interstate at 70+ mph surrounded by other people wrapped in a ton or two of steel with a couple hundred horsepower - all while they are possibly tired, angry, distracted, untrained, impaired, driving a vehicle with questionable maintenance... That's ok, not a concern. Walking through a parking lot while the teenager who got his/her license last week drives by in Dad's 3/4 ton 4X4 is no problem - anti-gunners won't even pay attention, they'll be texting or talking on their phones as they stumble through the lot.
The wild inconsistency in their expressed concern for everyone's well being is astounding. The hypocrisy would be laughable if they weren't so serious about it.
I think at least some of these people have inner rage which they fear will express itself while they are carrying a gun.
They wish to reserve for themselves the right to express their anger in irrational behavior and violent outbursts, after which they intend to apologize profusely for the fact that something "made them angry".
It would be too costly to indulge in such behavior if the outcome became the loss of one's life or a murder charge.
Hehehe here’s one for you. I almost got my spouse and I banned from family dinners with her sister in law. We were at SILs house and as usual she started in on the gun nut rant and how gun nuts needed to be committed because of their irrational fears forcing them to carry guns everywhere. I ignored as usual. Then she went there... she says I just can’t stand the thought of having one of those things close to me and my kids. They are just so dangerous. You would have to be stupid or insane to let one be around you. So I took the bait. I said really. You would never let one get near you. She confirmed that yes she could never be around a gun because they are evil. So I said a hunk of metal is evil? And without waiting for a response I pulled out my XDM .45 and plunked it down on the table then said like that one? Her eyes got huge and not a sound issued forth forth from anyone. So I continued. Been carrying a weapon of some sort since before we meet. Yep all those outings, family dinners, game nights, movies. Yep I was carrying. Your welcome. Picked it up and put it away. Nothing more was ever said about guns. However relations did get significantly cooler and we didn’t get invited back for a few months. Oh well
Oh and I caught hell when we got home but I’m not taking it anymore!
“The wild inconsistency in their expressed concern for everyone’s well being is astounding.”
Exactly. The difference is that almost every adult in this country has personal familiarity with the operation of an automobile.
But when it comes to firearms, irrational fear is not only common, but promoted to others by the fearful. I grew up around loaded firearms in our house, my first merit badge was Marksmanship, and made sure my kids learned safe firearm handling as soon as they were old enough to visit the range.
But today, we teach our kids our irrational fear instead. Bizarre, indeed.