I don't carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don't carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I'm evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don't carry a gun because I'm angry. I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to Heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because, unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

I don't carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

"Police Protection" is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves. Police do not protect you from crime; they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.

Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an *** whoopin'."

..author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

Remember the average response time to a 911 call is over 4 minutes.

The average response time of a 357 magnum is 1400 FPS.

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I'm so glad to see your mug shots don't discriminate!

That bunch looks like my high school student council.

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Thats a very good post, I dont understand why anyone wouldnt carry

To Argo(RIGHT ON!!) and the rest,

It is flat out wrong to carry "A GUN". No one should carry a gun! You have two hands you should carry two. You should never go to a gun fight, If you have to go to a gun fight you need to bring lots of big guns(Ar's m60's etc) and all you friends who have guns. I'm probably not going to be popular, but I feel that every one should carry GUNS ( I thought there was an amendment in the Constitution for carrying gun.) My 2 cents is we need common sense.(which seem to be uncommon) We might not "need" guns, but because things are the way they are we HAVE TO have them. I have seen those people in those photo or ones like them and if we could do away with evil, we might not have to be locked and loaded. I like this quote I found on this site "If you want peace, prepare for war"

We can put are guns down after the evils and evil people are put down. We are citizens only because we carry! IN GOD WE TRUST....all the rest get cuffed behind the back! Carry or be carried. Better to be judged by 12 than carried out by 6.
God bless you all! I am so happy to find a place like this were all the smart people can talk!

look at the eyes of every individual there.....What do YOU see?

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Chris in NH.

"some days, I wish my dogs could talk"

I am glad people carry. I don't because I know I would hesitate in that situation that could save me or people with me and I could make things worse. I do believe I could blow someone away trying to break in my house although I am not sure I would not hesitate than. I choose to think I could but I know I do not have the ability at the moment to perform properly in other situations so I don't carry concealed. I do open carry when legal. I know. It don't make sense to me either.

I carry a weapon because I can.

Self defense is a good reason to carry. But you may see a situation where you could help someone else. I know its unlikely, but you may see someone being attacked by animals. We had a recent incident near here when a rabid bobcat attacked a lady who was walking a small dog. The cat must have been really sick as three people held it down before the police could get there. They all had to be treated for rabies. Loose dogs are becoming a problem as more people are out of work and are dumping the animals on the street. Its best to be prepared.

I carry because a punk is not going to allow me to call 911 on my cellphone and police average response is 4 minutes.

"WHY" THE GUN IS CIVILIZATION..
By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunken guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation...and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

"When seconds count...The Police are minutes away."

Carry a gun because policemen are to heavy and high maintenance. Besides guns will not steal your breakfast roll, drink up the last of the coffee and don't require bathroom breaks. Besides most of the police I shoot with are lumpy and uncomfortable to carry because of all the gear they are equipped with.

Our village just authorized the funding to buy a Taser for the department to share among themselves, whoever gets the patrol car that day gets the Taser. If he didn't like the way you were carrying him he could just Tase you. Not much of a problem though the old sergeant who just made chief is the only one on the force who could probably hit you with it and he doesn't really need it.

I would like to carry a gun because I am to old and fat to fight and to crippled to run but I am in the Great state of WisKonsin and they don't believe in self defense for their citizens. I can open carry, except in my car, my nephews school, the local bars which also happen to be where the best food is, and anyplace where a concerned citizen may see the gun, get all panic stricken and then you have to go to court to fight the misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace.

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m141 you nailed it bud... something dead in those eyes...
i wouldn t be sure enough to make a final decision on them because of what i don t see ... but id probably keep an eye onum..
what i don t see is an openess.. they could also be a list of people who have suffered death by guns...
but theres an emptyness of human spirit in thier eyes...may god help them all.
i ll bet inner city police have an distorted view of all people if this is what they look at all day..i like to think its distorted ...could be i just avoid
folks with that look..
its not a new look ...its always been with mankind...through the dark ages,,an all...its the material people who have been that way so long that its stained the inert goodness that was there when they were born...
they are the people with serious problems in thier approach to life...
theres always hope until they are killed or completely die in spirit ...
i pray some can have god in thier lives at some point as he hasn t given up onum...he didn t on me... slim
ps im going to include a quote from the movie schrooge...mankind was your buisiness ,,ebeneezor scrooge..
don t doubt it... if things ever gonna get better its gonna take us viewing our brothers an sisters as our buisiness..

The best way I heard it said was"Its better to have it,and not need it,than to need it, and not have it!" Capt. Woodrow F. Call . I have a personal belief that, the reason some of our politicians want to disarm the public is so they can exercise the exact thing that the Second Amendment protects AGAINST.......... Just my opinion and two cents worth

im not sure who it is mabe some real powers behind the politicians.. but i agree dragon... they know they can t achieve the absolute power,, they want ,,while in an country where the population is armed and each one a potential mature soldier willing to lay it all on the line because they know they can t afford to lose,, to these power mongers.....this is i think behind most of this anti gun stuff...
when i was in the service,, i was a boy... i don t think then i was as formidable a soldier,,as id be today at 62...im totally committed now
to freedoms cause an what ensures it ...the right to bear arms..slim

I carry so you and another 5 won't have to carry me! I'll be judged by 12, Thanks.

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The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. (George Washington)
If we let sleeping dogs lie, should we let lying dogs sleep?(FDG)
Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is. (Josey Wales)