What is your answer when you are asked why do you carry a gun.

Pleading and begging for mercy from a BG just doesnt work for me nor my personality, foul language has proved to be ineffective in keeping them away either.

I have always though the anti gunners should declare there weaponless state with signs on thier houses... I would like to see how that works out for them...
 
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I live in Georgia. People in Georgia won't ask you why you carry - it's impolite.

And frankly none of us here want to be bothered to answer that question either. ;)
 
Because it is unwise to trust your protection to a system that is based on failure.

Remember, every time a law-abiding person is raped, mugged, brutalized, or killed, and then the police respond - which by necessity is almost always how such things happen - it is a FAILURE of the government if you believe the government should protect you. Clearly, the government has not protected the victim. It can only seek retribution. Even then, it often fails to find and/or convict the perpetrator. And no matter what, the victim is still a victim.

Plus, I don't want to live in a police state. The only other option that provides instant self-defense is to have an armed police person on every corner. That's not efficient, it's not necessary, and most importantly it's not American.

I'm responsible for my own self-defense and that of my family. It's not something I outsource.
 
Ten years ago I would have engaged that person in an honest debate over the justifiable uses a citizen has to protect himself, his home and those in his care. Not anymore.

I've seen quips said in innocence show up at HR hearings to cost a worker his job. I now live in a smaller suburban community, and our pyschiatrist's office is on the second floor, hidden in the rear of the building--tongues will wag for people seeking help.

In short, the modern trend is to believe that information, any information, should be full, immediate and surrendered on demand like how a plump housewife grabs a tabloid magazine. In truth, I don't care what you know about me, or what you don't know. Your nosy-nanny problems don't concern me.

I even answer our land-line "Atzomatti's Pizza."

If someone asks me why I carry any item, from a knife to a flashlight to a spare hankerchief, I proffer the same old biker snear I heard in the 1960s:

"Why do you want to know, are you writing a book?"
 
1) Because I can. (Rights unused are more easily lost.)

2) In case I'm wrong.

("Wrong about what?")

Well, if I knew there was going to be trouble, I'd be somewhere else.
If I expected trouble, I'd have my 9-shot 12-gauge pump shotgun.
I'm not expecting trouble, but I carry a pistol in case I'm wrong.
 
Well, if I knew there was going to be trouble, I'd be somewhere else.
If I expected trouble, I'd have my 9-shot 12-gauge pump shotgun.
I'm not expecting trouble, but I carry a pistol in case I'm wrong.
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+1 fcoliver

This is the best response I personally have seen yet.
 
Because it's a really dumb question, I simply say....sir/mam, no disrespect intended, but that is really dumb question. I leave it there.
 
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