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

Don't mess with Texas (and Texans)

If I was asked (which would only be a fluke because I don't tell anyone that I carry), I would respond that it is my Constitutional right to bear arms and my inalienable right to defend myself and my loved ones.

I thank God that I no longer live in the Northeast where the prevailing paradigm is to deny me either right.
 
Hey, more good answers than I've seen on other threads regarding this subject. I can see I'm gonna have to study some more lines. Cool.:D:cool:
 
I turn it on them,,,

Why aren't you carrying a gun?

The cliche answer I use is:
"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."

The real answer I sometimes use is:
"As a former Boy Scout, I strive to Be Prepared.

The comical answer I often use is:
"Gun!,,,
What gun?"

The true answer I almost never use is:
"If you actually have to ask, you would not understand."

Sad isn't it,,,
that the question even gets asked.

Aarond
 
Because if someone attacks me a bullet will get to them faster then the cops will.
Criminals are easier to catch when they are already in the hosiptal.
Criminals don't give me advance notice so i can't give the cops advance notice to be where they need to be at a certian time at a certian place.
 
So far haven't been asked why I carry.

Even more annoying I have been asked by non gun people "you always keep all your guns unloaded. Don't you" ME: "no" THEM: in shocked tone "WHY NOT!" ME: "because an unloaded gun isn't good for much" THEM: with bewildered look on face drop subject because the look on my face says there is no point arguing with me.
 
I have stated when asked why I carry a handgun, because the police frown on me lugging around my Mossberg pump 12 gauge Turkey gun.
 
No one other than my wife and whom ever lives in the house needs to know. friends and extended family don't need to know and the more that do know the more you open yourself to criticism and strife in your social circle. Why does anyone else really need to know? Loose lips, sink ships the saying still holds water:D
 
I've been asked numerous times why I carry. I don't mind answering because the people who have asked are usually the people I have helped train to shoot. Many of them (but not all) have gone on to get their own carry permits. Even more of them have gone on to buy their own guns even if they don't get carry permits.

Not every one who asks is a potential anti-gunner, and a well-considered answer can change minds. A hostile answer tends to do the opposite.
 
peetzakilla said:
I had a good friend at church make a comment like "I can see carrying, but not at church." but then there was that shooting at the church a year or so ago, and now there's a guy who made direct (and believable) death threats against a number of our members. My friend doesn't say much anymore
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Yeah, we as a church body have taken necessary steps in security with off-duty LEO's at our local church. But still by Missouri state law we are not able to enter a church having a CCW on, it's just one of the places listed that we can not enter with a CCW. Even though our pastor was a former member of K.C.P.D. SWAT team knocking on peoples doors with a ram before he received his calling to be a pastor, he still uses some of his own personal work stories in the sermons.
 
What is your answer when you are asked why do you carry a gun

Same reason I have a spare tire. I never leave home thinking I'll need it, but it's there if I ever do.
 
or my favorite When Seconds Count The Police Are Only Minutes Away!!!!
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Wow, you are fortunate! Here police are more likely an hour away! Seriously, we have only one deputy on duty in the entire county at a time and he can be 50 miles away.

Last year, a couple of nearby village cops were attacked in a bar brawl. 8 agencies responded for assistance including out of county and TWO from out of state! But our county sheriff's department never responded! :eek:

Our Local EMS has had to wait 45 minutes for the deputy to show up before the could respond to a violence call.

But that's why I carry: we have virtually no police protection here.
 
I carry a gun because it is my right, and because I am responsible enough to excercise it.

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 (namely, my three beautiful children who have only me to depend upon for protection).

And last but not least: 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.
 
Werd,, in 26 years i have never had anyone ask that of me. Guess i would just say ,cause it's legal of me to and so i do, just in case.
 
Y'all must advertise what you're doing a lot more than I do. They only people that know I carry are my wife and children. Even they, do not know when I am and when I'm not.

Perhaps I have taken concealed to an extreme. Perhaps not. I don't need to tell the world what I do and what I don't. Debate problem solved.
 
Y'all must advertise what you're doing a lot more than I do. They only people that know I carry are my wife and children. Even they, do not know when I am and when I'm not.
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If the only guns that people see are on "News at 11", they will never realized that honest, law abiding citizens can have guns without "blood running in the streets".

I'm not suggesting that we all have to go around carrying openly, but I think keeping the fact from everyone helps the anti gun crowd. We will be better off if someday the general population accepts that law abiding citizens with guns are an asset to the community.

Ken
"The more law-abiding people that have guns, the better off we are," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said. "Because the bad guys always have guns, You look at these school shootings or church shootings, the ones that have been stopped, it was because someone there had a gun."
 
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