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I Don't Want To Open Carry
By: M.R. Myers
I don't want to open carry. I don't want to concealed carry. I'd like to leave my house without my Springfield and not give it any thought. I want to be able to walk down the street and nod the police officer on the beat and know that hes there no more than a yell for help away should I need it. But I can't.
I'm a liberal Atheist that believes in public health care so that no one need struggle to be well. I believe that criminals that can be helped should be helped. I do my best to give the benefit of the doubt and look for the better nature and the good in everyone. I believe that every life is scared and should be protected. I help when I can and I'm not afraid to ask for help.
I'm also a realist. I know at the end of the day, It's my ass and no one Else's. I know that there are people like me, but too many that aren't. People that don't care how I voted, that don't care that I'd like to give them a helping hand if they asked for it. I know that there are times I'll go for an entire month without seeing police cruiser, let alone an officer out and about.
I want to make the world a better place, the help the less fortunate, to end war, the end hunger, and make sure that even in the darkest night, with every street light out, the only thing anyone needs to be afraid of is stubbing their toe and tripping in the park. I also realize that right now, this second, the world is an ugly place and so many things can inflict themselves upon me and the ones I love. So I drive safe, I keep my home up, I do the best I can at my job, and I leave the house with my pistol on my hip.
I carry my pistol because people wiser than me, people who thought like me, people who wanted to create a better world then the one they lived in realized that nothing worth doing is ever easy nor fast. Certainly not creating a better world. And those people in their great struggle to make the world a better place, saw fit to give their countrymen and their descendants one of the most basic rights, a right that has been acknowledged through out history, the right of a single person to defend himself against an aggressor, and they saw fit to ensure this right to defend myself with a relatively basic tool.
I carry because I have no desire to take a life, only to defend it. I carry because I know there are no second chances. I carry because I know my fox hole conversion is doing me as much good as the diligent, helpful police officer, who joined the force to protect law abiding citizens is 10 minutes away in the middle of the traffic stop. I carry because I know someday I'll be able to leave my pistol in the safe, and only take it out to kill paper and clay. I carry , because I want to see that day when I don't have to carry anymore.
The inspiration for this struck me earlier tonight reading a right wing message board earlier this evening. I'm an unabashed liberal. I make no apologies or explanations for it. The far right bothers me on may levels. So does the far left. As they say "You go to far to one side, you start meeting the same crazy people from the other side coming around the bend". One thing that unites us though is a love for life. I think to often that gets lost in the how. No one want anyone to suffer, no one wants anyone to needlessly die, we just disagree on how to fix things. Fear to often though gets in the way. Fear, the very heart of the anti's. Most aren't bad people, just scared. Being scared isn't a sin, not if you're willing to learn, and face that fear, I'm glad I was able to face mine and learn my pistol is just a thing like my car. Its fun, its an investment, its a tool, and it helps impress women . So I thought a bit from the other side might be a bit interesting.
Thank you for your time.
I Don't Want To Open Carry
By: M.R. Myers
I don't want to open carry. I don't want to concealed carry. I'd like to leave my house without my Springfield and not give it any thought. I want to be able to walk down the street and nod the police officer on the beat and know that hes there no more than a yell for help away should I need it. But I can't.
I'm a liberal Atheist that believes in public health care so that no one need struggle to be well. I believe that criminals that can be helped should be helped. I do my best to give the benefit of the doubt and look for the better nature and the good in everyone. I believe that every life is scared and should be protected. I help when I can and I'm not afraid to ask for help.
I'm also a realist. I know at the end of the day, It's my ass and no one Else's. I know that there are people like me, but too many that aren't. People that don't care how I voted, that don't care that I'd like to give them a helping hand if they asked for it. I know that there are times I'll go for an entire month without seeing police cruiser, let alone an officer out and about.
I want to make the world a better place, the help the less fortunate, to end war, the end hunger, and make sure that even in the darkest night, with every street light out, the only thing anyone needs to be afraid of is stubbing their toe and tripping in the park. I also realize that right now, this second, the world is an ugly place and so many things can inflict themselves upon me and the ones I love. So I drive safe, I keep my home up, I do the best I can at my job, and I leave the house with my pistol on my hip.
I carry my pistol because people wiser than me, people who thought like me, people who wanted to create a better world then the one they lived in realized that nothing worth doing is ever easy nor fast. Certainly not creating a better world. And those people in their great struggle to make the world a better place, saw fit to give their countrymen and their descendants one of the most basic rights, a right that has been acknowledged through out history, the right of a single person to defend himself against an aggressor, and they saw fit to ensure this right to defend myself with a relatively basic tool.
I carry because I have no desire to take a life, only to defend it. I carry because I know there are no second chances. I carry because I know my fox hole conversion is doing me as much good as the diligent, helpful police officer, who joined the force to protect law abiding citizens is 10 minutes away in the middle of the traffic stop. I carry because I know someday I'll be able to leave my pistol in the safe, and only take it out to kill paper and clay. I carry , because I want to see that day when I don't have to carry anymore.
The inspiration for this struck me earlier tonight reading a right wing message board earlier this evening. I'm an unabashed liberal. I make no apologies or explanations for it. The far right bothers me on may levels. So does the far left. As they say "You go to far to one side, you start meeting the same crazy people from the other side coming around the bend". One thing that unites us though is a love for life. I think to often that gets lost in the how. No one want anyone to suffer, no one wants anyone to needlessly die, we just disagree on how to fix things. Fear to often though gets in the way. Fear, the very heart of the anti's. Most aren't bad people, just scared. Being scared isn't a sin, not if you're willing to learn, and face that fear, I'm glad I was able to face mine and learn my pistol is just a thing like my car. Its fun, its an investment, its a tool, and it helps impress women . So I thought a bit from the other side might be a bit interesting.
Thank you for your time.