Firearms. Yea or Nay?

[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.

[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?

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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".

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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 cant speak for Joe, Tom, Dick, or Harry.

Would you go out into bear country when the salmon are spawning and the boars are looking for a mate? Brown bears are smart, Ive heard stories of them coming into an area after bear spray has been used. They will circle around and come from up wind, or is it down wind. I have had bears in camp less then 20' from my tent.

Im not Timmothy Treadwell, and Im not going to wind up like him. Im also not going to stop going out into bear country.

People in Anchorage and Eagle River jog carrying handguns, and not because they fear being mugged.

The area I live in now is for the most part safer then the area of Anchorage I last lived in. In Anchorage it was easier to chase off the hookers and get the Hells Angel's to deal with the drug dealers. The Mat Su Borough, where I live now is also the meth capital of Alaska and it is an area larger then some states. If I didnt have the dogs Ild probably own more guns. Dogs are a bigger deterent for break ins then firearms.

Puck has pointed out in this thread and his own that the 2nd Amendment protects the rest of our Rights.

Somebody famous said,

People should not be afraid of their Government, Government should be afraid of the People.

Ill add to that with,

Government should rely on the People, People should not rely on Government.

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