My sister and boyfriend have different views along the same lines though. My sisters BF thinks there is no reason to carry 24/7 but is not against it or anything. My sister is against it period.she sees no reason why I need one or why I feel the need to carry one and if something were to happen like someone robbing me its gonna happen a certain way whether I have it or not . She one of those people who would bring up an instance where a gun couldn't have saved the person assuming thats how all encounters with bad people go.
Every time someone in town is shot and killed, I print the article to a pdf file and store it in a file on my hard drive entitled, "Why I carry a firearm." Since I starting doing this a little over a year ago, I've accumulated just over 20 such articles. About 80% of the incidents, if I'd been the intended victim, I'm quite certain I'd never have become a victim. I'm far less certain about the other 20% of the incidents.
My mom is funny she always says you better no have bullets in that thing when she sees me with it lol . But she doesn't say anything about me carrying it.
Lol, my Mom prefers that I not wear it at the dinner table! Other times, she's cool with it, and having eaten out a few times and shopped at Wal-Mart with me, she knows from first-hand experience that people's reactions are not an issue.
My dad doesnt say anything about me carrying it but like my sister and her boyfriend they think by carrying all the time that I am constantly walking around in fear that something bad will happen to me. I agree there are both parties on both sides of guns rights anti or not. But at least where I'm from mostly Democrats and liberals want to restrict/ban weapons and say thats what the police are for and the chances of anything happening are so small.
I given the crime stats around here, I calculated that I stand a 50% chance of having to use it once every 18,343 days. That's about 50 years. That doesn't take into consideration the fact I usually OC, so I think that timeline is a little low. Let's hope it's never.
So, are the chances slight? Absolutely. Are they nonexistant? Absolutely not! About once every five years some knucklehead plows into my car. Thus, the liklihood of my having an accident on any given day is just 1 out of 1,825, or 0.05% (five one-hundredths of one percent).
Despite this very low percent, I still put on my seat belt each and every time I get behind the wheel!
And there are some who would say they dont want to ban guns but they would make restrictions and the process of buying so difficult that a lot of people say its not worth the time and all the extra costs. If they cant ban it they'll restrict it to death that way they can look like there not anti gun.
That's their goal. People like Hillary and Obama know there's no way they'd ever successfully repeal the Second Amendment, so they instead enacted legislation over the years. When SCOTUS ruled that 2A is an individual right, they undermined a good portion of the legislation of the few holdout states.
So, in response, Hillary and Obama are supporting the UN's handgun ban treaty. If the Senate ever ratifies the resulting treaty with the required 2/3 vote, that will have effectively nullified the Second Amendment, for ratified international treaties carry the same weight as our own Constitution.
The scary thing is that our President can sign an "executive agreement," and presidents have done so about 10 times the rate of Senate ratification. That wouldn't carry enough weight to override the Second Amendment, but it would sure put our rights in harm's way.
