Who's asking about your gun?

Whenever anyone asks me about my desire to own a gun (just two more days!) and accuses me of preparing for something that will "never happen", I ask a few questions:

-Do you carry a tool kit and spare tire in your car?
-Do you have a charged cell phone, candles, and a battery-powered radio?
-Do you have casual sex without condoms? Do you have committed sex without birth control when you aren't trying to concieve?
-Do you give out your credit card or Social Security numbers over unsecure channels?
-Do you routinely walk down dark alleys in big cities completely alone?
-Do you buy more than one roll of toilet paper at a time?

Usually the rejoiner is that 'Well, guns don't make mugging victims safer.'
'You just said me being armed was silly, because I was never going to get mugged.'

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I changed a tire for someone else only yesterday, so it can happen.  Still, I was a passenger, so it wasn't quite love and understanding at work as much as practical necessity and the fact that the driver was a techno-tard who couldn't have managed it alone.   ;-/

-ljp

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The females in my family are completely befuddled by the gun thing. They - predictably - insist that it's some psycho-sexual compensation "issue."

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If you answer even one of them correctly, then you're just as "paranoid" as someone who carries. That's the point.

Although when I made that point, some idiot actually argued that he didn't need to carry a spare tire or car tools because "love and understanding are much better than paranoia and living in fear". I asked him when was the last time that love and understanding changed a tire for him, and he didn't respond again.

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The one line I love to hear is "Omg, is that a gun?". When I say "Why yes it is.", I hear "Is it real?" in a puzzled voice. I love to say "Nope, it is a special effect done with your computer."

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I have only been asked one time by a stranger if I am a cop while carrying openly. But I have lost track of the amount of times friends and family members have quiestioned why I carry. One of my sisters brings it up every time she sees me OC. It gets a little old; but I was just wondering if you guys have had similar experiences.

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JB - I've said in other threads ... when someone asks me why I carry a gun I have two standard responses.  Which I use depends on my mood and on the person I'm talking to.

One - "Cause I can't carry a cop."

Two - "Have you ever been raped at knifepoint?  I have.  Never again!"

Even my stepfather, who fully supports my right to carry, often says "I'm sorry you don't feel safe enough here not to be armed."  I've yet to convince him it's not a question of not feeling safe in his home, it's a question of being prepared no matter where I am.

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The females in my family are completely befuddled by the gun thing. They - predictably - insist that it's some psycho-sexual compensation "issue." I don't even deny it any more. It got to be a running, if not very clever, joke around the house for a while. I onceasked my sister during her last visit if she had seen my "penis" (work/duty weapon) as I was getting ready for work. She assumed it was a Freudian slip, and it"confirmed" her opinion of the whole thing. Then again, she's an intellectual property lawyer who never slums it in common pleas court, or she might appreciate the practical need for guns a bit more.

-ljp

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I agree with your confusion. I was at a doctor's office the other day and a young couple sat next to me in the waiting room. The guy was the same age as me, 23, and the girl seemed to be around that age as well. They had a9 month old baby, and she was absolutely amazing. She smiled and was the happiest, most outgoingbaby I've ever seen.

So being young and engaged, I'm thinking about how I want to be a dad, and all of those thoughts that young engaged people think. I got to wondering: How can you have something that important and fragile and not have the means to protect it? I mean, seriously, how can anyone truely love a child and not want to be able to guarantee it's safety?

I thought for a moment what a good analogy would be. I'm an analogy kind of person. I decided to compare it to walking around with a clear breifcase full of $100 bills. Everyone can see it, and it's unprotected. Bad people might try to take it from you, or threaten to take it to get something else out of you. Would you walk around the city with something as important to you as $100,000 in a clear case without a gun? Don't you think that baby is more important than the hypothetical breifcase?

Maybe it's a bad analogy, but I just don't understand how anyone can have a child and not want to have the means to protect it.

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There was a time when there were no guns. The strong overpowered the weak, women were raped by men, and children were murdered along with the rest of the family because they were the wrong religion or race.

With the presence of guns, everyone has the same ability to enjoy their lives and live as they wish without fear of the above things.

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Kendo_Bunny wrote:

Whenever anyone asks me about my desire to own a gun (just two more days!) and accuses me of preparing for something that will "never happen", I ask a few questions:

-Do you carry a tool kit and spare tire in your car?
-Do you have a charged cell phone, candles, and a battery-powered radio?
-Do you have casual sex without condoms? Do you have committed sex without birth control when you aren't trying to concieve?
-Do you give out your credit card or Social Security numbers over unsecure channels?
-Do you routinely walk down dark alleys in big cities completely alone?
-Do you buy more than one roll of toilet paper at a time?

Usually the rejoiner is that 'Well, guns don't make mugging victims safer.'
'You just said me being armed was silly, because I was never going to get mugged.'

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I just noticed that I can only answer 2 of these "correctly" myself, and I still carry.

-ljp

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