WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO CARRY?

I've just seen to many violent and deranged morons who are willing to hurt innocent people for the hell of it, not to carry.

I feel that I owe it to my family.

I think that the more of us who do, the better it makes our whole community, and as was said above, it makes us into statistics that scare politicians.

Plus I had argued and debated this so many times with liberals while I was going to school, that I felt like a hypocrite for not carrying.

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I have never really had anything bad happen to me, but with the current state of things, I feel much better when I go armed, and my family feels better,too.
Most of my reasons mirror the rest of the members here.

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And if you hear from my Louise, won't you tell her I love her so?
 
I carry for a couple reasons. Partly because I just love firearms, and have ever since I was in my pre-teen years. I enjoy guns, and I enjoy having one near. I carry because it is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. I carry because there are rabid skunks near, and I try to prevent my family from being harmed. I carry because I refuse to be a passive victim of a violent crime. I carry because the woman I love is very special, and she will not be killed, raped, or harmed on my shift. I carry because I want my little part of the world to be a little safer, just because there is an aware, competent shooter around. I carry because I want criminals to think twice about harming anyone, pro-gun or anti-gun, because that anyone just might be packing. I carry to exercise the Second. I carry because America was born, explored, settled, and kept free with firearms. I carry a deadly weapon because I love life.

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What is popular is not always right.
What is right is not always popular.

[This message has been edited by Country Boy (edited July 09, 2000).]
 
All the above. My handguns have saved my bacon before. I'm never unarmed. My wife also carries. She, too, knows what criminals do to innocent, unarmed victims.

J.B.
 
I had always had a shotgun and rifles, but never considered carrying a handgun until the Lillelid family was massacred at a rest stop along US 81 near Greeneville,TN a few years ago. They were returning from a church function on a Sunday evening and met their doom to a group of teenagers who believed themselves to be vampires(from eastern Kentucky) This was less than 20 miles from my home. Our daughter was very young at the time, and this single event sobered me to the reality of the dangers present in this world. I started looking for my first handgun, which turned out to be a Kahr K40, and seeking a CCW.
 
I live in Vermont. Need I say more? :D

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Panzerführer

Die Wahrheit ist eine Perle. Werfen sie nicht vor die Säue.

Those that beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those that don't.
 
1976 Chicago was living a bad life got my little brother involved who then ripped me off for ten large my 'boss' asked if I wanted him hit went to work with police and been carrying ever since.

I live in Vermont, now, too....

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"All my ammo is factory ammo"
 
CARRY FIREARM: None

REASON: My state doesn't believe its citizens are smart enough to responsibly carry. Besides my state hasn't had a law broken in 100 years.


Turk
 
I read George Will's column about Jeffrey Snyder's "A Nation of Cowards," and then read "A Nation of Cowards" itself. Started carrying then. When VA changed its laws, I got my permit.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by beemerb:
Found a site on the web where you punch in your zip and gives you the chances of being a victim of a crime.
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What's the web site?

Thanks,

Munir




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ahlan wa sahlan
PCV Yemen 1984-86
 
Gang punks and gunfire. Lots of gang punks and gunfire in my old neighborhood. More hoods than neighbors.

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Yeah, I got a permit to carry,it's called the friggin Constitution.---Ted Nugent

"Glock 26: 17 rounds of concealed carry DEATH comming your way from out of nowhere!!! THAT'S FIREPOWER, BABY!!!"
 
What Country Boy said!
My main 5 reasons: My son,his wife,their 2 girls (my grandbabies),my girl friend.
All more important to me than "wishing I had one" and didn't.
Dennie, NRA Life Member,GOA
 
Thanks, RWK, you said it. I'm a Citizen and Patriot, not an LEO, retired or otherwise. I have yet to see a cop around when the SHTF. The older I get, the more I see that NO PNE can be depended upon but myself, my wife, and my very close family (and I'm still pretty young). I don't trust anyone anymore, until they prove that they can be trusted conpmetely.
 
In part I got a concealed handgun license because of a personal commitment to exercise the right to bear arms, and in part because I got married. I didn't want to be with my wife in Luby's or wherever some day and watch her being slaughtered by a maniac while I was powerless to help her.

Granted, we're not likely to find ourselves in such a situation. But it's obviously not impossible, either, so I figured to lower the risk still further.



[This message has been edited by jimmy (edited July 10, 2000).]
 
I've never been in a situation where I needed a gun, but otherwise I carry for the same reasons that everyone else has already given here. And out of spite. I just got sick and tired of being insulted and demonized by the antis. I hope that my being a GOOD citizen and an ARMED citizen pisses them off as much as they do me.

Jack
 
1. I live in Indiana and it is SUPER EASY to get a 'personal protection' permit.

2. It's my right to carry.

3. Now I carry because I work at a landfill. I know, doesn't sount like too scary of a place, but I sometimes work there after hours and can be far, far away from a phone. Landfills attract dogs--sometimes feral dogs. There have been too many instances in the past of guys getting caught with a growling, teeth-bared dog between them and their vehicle. We just recently had an incident where a 70+-yr-old census taker was killed by a pack of dogs. I don't want to be the next one.

Thankfully, I haven't had any bad experiences where I wish I had had a gun and not had one.

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Kim

NRA Millenium Life Member
 
I have had a couple incidents happen that made me realize something:

In our society we only have the ILLUSION of safety. The Police cannot protect YOU and have no resposibility to do so.

Average violent crime takes 30 seconds to complete. Average response time of cops is 10 minutes. Do the math.
Even if you live in an area where the cops are faster, they can never get there in 30 seconds, and you can only get to them to you if you can get to a phone and tell them to come (in the middle of an attack?).

%5 of violent crimes are stopped in progress by cops.
That means %95 are up to the people on the scene. That means YOU. Don't expect anyone else to save you, I have been there done that, and people will just stand there and watch because they "never thought it would happen..."


Since I started carrying daily, I have had to draw more than once to stop a violent attack. I am glad I did not have to find out the hard way what would have happened had I not been armed.
 
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