Four black guys just did a home invasion and rapped 2 girls living in the home at knifepoint. Happened last month about 20 blocks from me. May not happened in Canada but it sure happens here. You can call this fear for sure.
Free is walking around at night with your wallet in your back pocket and no weapons. Free is not having to lock your house or your car at night. Free is being able to flip off the a**hole that just cut you off in traffic without thinking you might get shot over it.
You consider not locking your home as being free? I consider it not as safe as locking it.
You consider being able to walk around with your wallet is free? Yep, it sure is. So is walking around with you gun and wallet. It's nice to have a choice.
Whenever you flip a person off there is a chance you can get shot regardless where you live.
You talked about fear? I know I own a gun out of fear. I cannot kick anyone a$$. I cannot fight a person with my hands. All I want is a chance to protect myself if my life is ever in danger. IMO there is nothing wrong with that. Just like there is nothing wrong if you choose not to own a gun. I am not going to shake my head at you. You know what’s best for you not me.
That being said I am not to BIGHEADED to see others points of view. I can argue the concealed carry laws both ways. But to tell me I cannot protect my HOME and my LIFE on my property with guns is just wrong.
Free can have many meanings I guess and seen many different ways. In this world today free to me is having a choice. A choice to own or not to own a gun. The choice to be able to decide what best for me and mine. Not what the government thinks is best for me and mine. A choice to be gay. A choice to watch porn. A choice to smoke pot. A choice to have an abortion.
About what Mat is talking about with pop-out gun rails in every room and behind the TV? I call BS on all that. It is post like this that gives good gun owners a bad name. Talk is cheap and nothing but pics will change my mind. Bang,bang and out comes gun? Clap clap and 50cal pops up from under the kitchen table. C,mon Guns behind the wall and punching sheet rock to access them? This stuff drives me crazy and it's more than likly BS. Ignore this stuff for there is responsible gun owners out there. We are not all paronoid and live in high fear.
I do not take a shower with my gun. I do not work out in the shop armed. I do not go to work armed. I go to the movies armed. I go to dinner armed. I grocery shop armed. I go to yard sales armed. I go fishing armed. I go camping armed. I am not paranoid. I am exercising my 2nd amendment right as an American. That’s as free as you can get IMO. I am not a thug and my wife is not a thug. We are gun owners by choice.
Call me crazy I do not care. I am perfectly fine to be able to make my own decisions what’s best for my family and I. If no guns are needed then let me make that decision. As far as gun case in my car? I see that is trying to help a problem from guns getting into the wrong hands so easy. Not fantasy 007 life. The last "intruder" in my backyard was armed and kicked my back door in. Literally.
Did you see a dog? Just wondering
Perhaps I lost some friends in this thread for I do not know. But before I do know for sure or lose anymore I am done with this thread. Thanks for keeping it real though. Well almost real anyway?
Peace friends see you in other threads. If I see any zombies I will let you all know.
I hear ya- I just think it's very sad that it's come to this in many places. I am fortunate in that I live in an area where having all these guns is entirely unnecessary. Toronto (30 mins south) does indeed have crime, and I do not view it as entirely free. Remember my comment about if I lived in such a place that I would move away? I DID!
Don't get me wrong, I don't HATE GUNS. I believe in responsible gun ownership. I do NOT believe in any idiot being able to posess a firearm. In fact (just to show my other side), I have begun studying for my own Posession and Acquisition Licence. I think I'm going to get a rifle.
Basically, my thoughts above were more of a sad social commentary. Bighead, if I offended you, I apologize- that was not my intent. I'm not shaking my head at YOU. I am shaking it at the planet.
