Firearms. Yea or Nay?

[sparks19]

Awww this is the puck we have all grown to love if you get too obnoxious we just sic sparks on ya...

I just like to see a fair fight...and I agree with blue the twising of desert arabians words did not constitute a fair fight either...

now everone..take twenty steps and unholster your guns

LOL I have said it before...

he's like a good beer... an aquired taste but can be a lot of fun if you just give it a chance LOL

[blue]

Well argue all you want... to me it doesn't matter. YOU will not be the ones protecting my family and my daughter IF the unthinkable should happen. Do I live my life in fear? No I do not. I enjoy my life. I try to wake each day with a smile on my face and in my heart and enjoy everyday I have. You don't like that we have guns in our house... tough. it doesn't make a lick of difference to me because again... YOu will NOT be the one coming to my rescue if a criminal were to have their way.

Do I sit here in my house daily and think "Gosh I need a gun to protect myself from the awful world" ... NOpe. but I also don't sit here and think daily "Gosh I need a fire extinguisher in case a completely random fire were to break out in my home" but I still have one. Yes yes... I know what is coming next from the nay sayers "a fire extinguisher isn't intended to kill people" and you're right... it's not. But it will help me fight against the unthinkable... and I will have it to protect my family. Just as I will not go down without one HELL of a fight if someone comes in with the intent to hurt me and my precious innocent daughter.

YOu don't have to like it and you can argue against it all you want... but I don't really care... it falls on deaf ears. My daughters care is in MY hands and my husbands hands and I will NOT rely on anyone else to protect her in such a situation. by the time the cops come... it will be too late... so in the meantime I will do whatever it takes.

FTW!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Just as I will not go down without one HELL of a fight if someone comes in with the intent to hurt me and my precious innocent daughter.

YOu don't have to like it and you can argue against it all you want... but I don't really care... it falls on deaf ears.

Oh that's okay Sparky. I don't buy anything the gun lovers are selling either!

I now understand some people feel the need to have guns because they are afraid of the military taking over as stated earlier. And I think I understand others to say they live in really bad places full of really bad people just waiting to harm them. And they are very, very frightened of other people. And that the only way they can assuage their fears is by having instruments created for killing those people handy.

I do not live in this cage of fear.

And this thread has made me realize how very, very angry and scared some people are. And I am sorry they have to live life with all this fear and anger. It must be very limiting.

[sparks19]

Good for you!

I'm neither angry or frightened to live my life

[Lady's Human]

ES, I'm neither angry nor scared.

It amuses me that anyone who disagrees with you in this thread is somethow suffering form some mental illness of some sort.

Prima facia evidence of elitism.

[lizbud]

Prima facia evidence of elitism.

You think so, do you? I believe it's a sign of a very well adjusted adult.

I also think folks who have to have a gun in their house to feel safe from
our government are maybe, a tiny bit paranoid. "the bogeyman is everywhere"

[sparks19]

Think of me what you will

But your judgement of me is not going to keep me from protecting my daughter IF the unthinkable were to happen.

judge away

[Lady's Human]

Liz, that's why we will never agree on this issue.

To you and ES, having a gun is evidence of mental illness.

To those of us who choose to exercise our second amendment rights, posession of a firearm is merely a logical extension of the boy scout motto.....Be prepared.

It's not paranoia, it's not living in fear, it's not being afraid of the guy next to us on the street, it's being prepared, nothing else.

[Edwina's Secretary]

ES, I'm neither angry nor scared.

It amuses me that anyone who disagrees with you in this thread is somethow suffering form some mental illness of some sort.

Prima facia evidence of elitism.

I am so glad we amuse one another....What are people who disagree with you? Brilliant? Well-grounded? Right?

After all the names you have called me? Now you add elitist!

You're so cute when you run out of arguments...

[lizbud]

Liz, that's why we will never agree on this issue.

To you and ES, having a gun is evidence of mental illness.

To those of us who choose to exercise our second amendment rights, posession of a firearm is merely a logical extension of the boy scout motto.....Be prepared.

It's not paranoia, it's not living in fear, it's not being afraid of the guy next to us on the street, it's being prepared, nothing else.

Oh, I think we may agree more than you think. I am a gun owner myself,
but I don't worship guns ,nor think they are the answer to the crime problems
or the governmental whims.

[Lady's Human]

Sara, I haven't run out of arguments, just patience and desire to spar with your continuous drumbeat of nanny-state BS.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Well Joe, I don't understand why you have taken offense this time. You and your fellow travelers have repeatedly expressed the need for guns for protection. So I accept that. There is something from which you feel the need for protection. There is something you fear. Some fear for which you must be prepared.

I cannot imagine why you think I classify fear as a mental illness. That is YOUR definition...certainly not mine. Fear is the natural response when threatened. Why the defensiveness?

And just what is a nanny state anyway?

[blue]

And just what is a nanny state anyway?

Change we can believe in, link.

[Lady's Human]

Be prepared...........

not be prepared to call the police, not be prepared to call animal control, be prepared to handle situations without government intervention.

Even if you did call, they're so far away you're not going to get anyone to actually respond for at least 20 minutes (which is how long it takes to get out to where we live from the nearest Dunkin Donuts). If you call animal control to deal with the numerous 'yotes we have in the area, all they ask is "don't you have a rifle?"

You keep a fire extinguisher in the kitchen.....I keep a gun in a well placed spot in the house where I can get to it if need be. Fear has nothing to do with it.

[RICHARD]

People who fear shooting off a gun have plenty to be afraid of.

They have never learned how to keep from shooting off their traps.

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The people that want to keep you from owning a gun are the same people who want our police and military armed.

LOL, Never trust a man without "Protection".