hankrearden98
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Your first obligation is to yourself and to your own irreplaceable life, regardless of public opinion or the "image" of gunowners as a group. You have a moral right to life. You have a moral right to do whatever it takes to preserve that life as long as you do not deliberately infringe on the rights of others. That is what the Founders envisioned, that is what they thought they were creating. If you live in a jurisdiction that will not allow you to carry a weapon to defend yourself with, you owe it to yourself to get out. I do not travel to other states that do not recognize my CCW. That limits me to Texas, Arkansas, Tennesee, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Alaska. When I travel to WY, UT or ID and must travel thru Colorado, I avoid Denver and only stop for fuel and the restroom, period. The other states don't want me or my business or else they would recognize my right to life. The same goes for those businessses that post those no weapons signs. I'm happy to allow them all to suffer the consequences of their ideas.
I have been working in prisons long enough, have heard of enough actual court cases from firsthand participants to know that it is very hard to get a criminal conviction out of a defendant who is willing to fight their case all the way thru a jury trial. Unless you happen to live in a really totalitarian local, or unless you can be intimidated into surrendering your right to remain silent, or be intimidated into a plea bargain; the courts generally don't have the resources to go to trial over trivial matters. Carrying a weapon illegally is a trivial matter in any half sane person's book when compared to murder, rape, robbery, burglary and assault. Remember, nationally only about five percent of prison inmates actually went to trial. The other 95% plea bargained. Use this fact to your advantage, keep your head and refuse to be intimidated. Above all, fight for your right to life!
I have been working in prisons long enough, have heard of enough actual court cases from firsthand participants to know that it is very hard to get a criminal conviction out of a defendant who is willing to fight their case all the way thru a jury trial. Unless you happen to live in a really totalitarian local, or unless you can be intimidated into surrendering your right to remain silent, or be intimidated into a plea bargain; the courts generally don't have the resources to go to trial over trivial matters. Carrying a weapon illegally is a trivial matter in any half sane person's book when compared to murder, rape, robbery, burglary and assault. Remember, nationally only about five percent of prison inmates actually went to trial. The other 95% plea bargained. Use this fact to your advantage, keep your head and refuse to be intimidated. Above all, fight for your right to life!