When are people going to stop worrying about everyone else and start worrying about themselves. No matter how hard anyone tries there simply is no possible way you can prevent everyone from doing stupid things, breaking laws, committing crimes, etc. We're all imperfect. Owning and carrying firearms is fundamentally about taking charge of your own life and own self defense. It's not about wanting to kill people as some have so naively implied. It's about YOUR right to own tools for your self defense. Ask yourself how much you value YOUR own life, how much do you want to live? A firearm is a tool, sort of a force multiplier. It evens the odds for 100lb females versus 250lb 6'5" rapists. It evens the odds for elderly people faced with a group of young robbers. Would you really deny people who are disabled or disadvantaged the right to defend themselves, in essence the right to live? No of course you wouldn't. Owning a firearm doesn't have to be about wanting to kill as some imply, it can simply be about loving yourself and/or your family so much that you want to live and not be at an attacker's mercy or face certain death.
Legislation is NO substitute for morality or a lack thereof. People need to stop thinking in that manner and trying to legislate against everything they dislike or everything they are afraid of and don't understand. As humans are imperfect, we will always have idiots and criminals, at least for the foreseeable future in my lifetime. Stop worrying about what those fools are doing and start worrying about taking care of yourself. I'm a law-abiding gun owner. I follow the law, I exercise firearm safety and don't endanger anyone, therefore what I do is my own business and in no way affects other's lives. If some of you can't reconcile the thought of strong-minded individual's taking charge of their own lives and taking charge of their own self defense, then keep living in your own little world of fear. I can assure you, firearms do not have minds of their own. Just because some people do carry them, does not mean the guns are going to fly off of people's hips and start shooting up the room on their own. Be afraid of the criminals and idiots and stop worrying about us safe and law-abiding gun owners as we do not deserve it.
Legislation is NO substitute for morality or a lack thereof. People need to stop thinking in that manner and trying to legislate against everything they dislike or everything they are afraid of and don't understand. As humans are imperfect, we will always have idiots and criminals, at least for the foreseeable future in my lifetime. Stop worrying about what those fools are doing and start worrying about taking care of yourself. I'm a law-abiding gun owner. I follow the law, I exercise firearm safety and don't endanger anyone, therefore what I do is my own business and in no way affects other's lives. If some of you can't reconcile the thought of strong-minded individual's taking charge of their own lives and taking charge of their own self defense, then keep living in your own little world of fear. I can assure you, firearms do not have minds of their own. Just because some people do carry them, does not mean the guns are going to fly off of people's hips and start shooting up the room on their own. Be afraid of the criminals and idiots and stop worrying about us safe and law-abiding gun owners as we do not deserve it.