Beretta92FSLady
Regular Member
Before I break this down like a fraction I just want to clearly state: Owning, and Carrying Firearms is a Constitutional Right, PERIOD.
I left OC for many months, it may have been six months, it may have been a bit less. During that time I did not CC, I did not OC. In fact, my wagon is sitting in my safe, collecting dust.
Basically, I have no desire, and see no reason for myself to OC and/or CC, and no reason to continue owning firearms. I used to see a reason, I realize what has changed is not my environment--we do live in a dangerous world--, rather, it is me. Over the months I have incrementally rid my life of nearly all my firearms, and it has been Liberating for me. All I have left is my Beretta 92FS...and that's going as well.
What about my personal safety? What about the safety of my family...of my children...of my wife?? There are many ways that I can protect my family.
(This is not the sole reason I am not longer carrying, nor owning firearms). I have questioned, for four years now, whether it was necessary for me to shoot a person...it seemed necessary at the time. Part of the reason the person was shot is because there was a risk of losing my sidearm to my attacker if I didn't act; do you follow me here, the mere act of carrying painted me into a corner where I had to pull the trigger, if not for my safety from his fists, but for the safety of not having my sidearm taken from me, and used against me by a ****** maniac.--don't think for a second I'm using some Leftist anti-Firearm BS argument here...just typing out what's in my mind. There have been many days that I question whether I am better-off living with knowing that I shot someone than knowing that I got into a knock-down drag-out fist-fight with the person who attacked my family, and I.--I suppose we will never know. I stand by what I did, but I do not stand by continuing to own, and carry firearms, personally.
We all draw lines. In this area of my life I have drawn a line, and that line is me no longer owning, and obviously carrying, firearms. Will it be the case a month from now, ten years from now...I can't say. All I know is this has been building a long time for me, and I am finished with wielding those tools.
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I left OC for many months, it may have been six months, it may have been a bit less. During that time I did not CC, I did not OC. In fact, my wagon is sitting in my safe, collecting dust.
Basically, I have no desire, and see no reason for myself to OC and/or CC, and no reason to continue owning firearms. I used to see a reason, I realize what has changed is not my environment--we do live in a dangerous world--, rather, it is me. Over the months I have incrementally rid my life of nearly all my firearms, and it has been Liberating for me. All I have left is my Beretta 92FS...and that's going as well.
What about my personal safety? What about the safety of my family...of my children...of my wife?? There are many ways that I can protect my family.
(This is not the sole reason I am not longer carrying, nor owning firearms). I have questioned, for four years now, whether it was necessary for me to shoot a person...it seemed necessary at the time. Part of the reason the person was shot is because there was a risk of losing my sidearm to my attacker if I didn't act; do you follow me here, the mere act of carrying painted me into a corner where I had to pull the trigger, if not for my safety from his fists, but for the safety of not having my sidearm taken from me, and used against me by a ****** maniac.--don't think for a second I'm using some Leftist anti-Firearm BS argument here...just typing out what's in my mind. There have been many days that I question whether I am better-off living with knowing that I shot someone than knowing that I got into a knock-down drag-out fist-fight with the person who attacked my family, and I.--I suppose we will never know. I stand by what I did, but I do not stand by continuing to own, and carry firearms, personally.
We all draw lines. In this area of my life I have drawn a line, and that line is me no longer owning, and obviously carrying, firearms. Will it be the case a month from now, ten years from now...I can't say. All I know is this has been building a long time for me, and I am finished with wielding those tools.
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