Wouldn’t you feel safer with a gun?

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[DirtyPigpen]

Wouldn’t you feel safer with a gun? British attitudes are supercilious and misguidedRichard Munday Despite the recent spate of shootings on our streets, we pride ourselves on our strict gun laws. Every time an American gunman goes on a killing spree, we shake our heads in righteous disbelief at our poor benighted colonial cousins. Why is it, even after the Virginia Tech massacre, that Americans still resist calls for more gun controls?

[DirtyPigpen]

Are they finally comming around?

[DirtyPigpen]

Here is the link.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2409817.ece

[xcamel]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892850/posts
(for comments)

[shag377]

No. I would not feel safer.

I AM safer.

End of discussion.

[CindyDawg]

What’s wrong with shopping for bread and ammo?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I use RKBA as a litmus test for politicians for a very simple reason.
A politician who isn’t afraid of RKBA isn’t figuring on screwing you over so bad you feel the need to start a revolution because he knows you have the means to do it.
- Jim Bohan (aka: El Lobo Azul)

Fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity .
- Sigmund Freud

Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.” (A sword is never a killer, it’s a tool in the killer’s hands.)
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca “the Younger” (ca. 4 BC-65 AD)

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one.
- Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.

Gun control laws increase the power of government and the criminal element over the average citizen and serve no other purpose.
- Robert E. Lee

A goverment that fears arms in the hands of it people should also fear ROPE!
- Nathan Bedford Forrest about 1845

I don’t know about you, but if you hear that Williams’ guns have been taken, you will know that Williams is dead.
- Walter Williams, syndicated columnist

Ain’t much can’t be cured with a lot of lead flyin’ through the air.
- SEAL Team Six saying

It is hard to oppress a population equipped to hunt animals the size of a man.
— L. Neil Smith, Pallas (New York: Tor, 1993), p. 380

Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons.
If you don’t have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
- Yoshimi Ishikawa, Japanese author commenting on the lack of protest with which Japanese tolerated governmental corruption, Los Angeles Times, 10/15/92

The most important freedom of all is the freedom to defend freedom.- Kevin McGehee

Gun control, the opiate of the intellectuals: covert elitism laced with self-righteousness.

[JoeGar]

Wouldn’t you feel safer with a gun?

Yes. In fact, for home protection, I just bought a new Mossberg 12-gauge Persuader shotgun at a gun show last weekend. I can't wait to hit the range with it.

[Larry Lucido]

It’s not about feeeelings, wooo-oooh-oooh feeeelings. You would BE safer with a gun.

[MTMS]

It’s 4 am, the dogs are barking like crazy and husband is out of town. I standing at the door in my robe with a loaded handgun. It may only be a bear but it could be a creep...so, yes, I feel safer and so do my kids....hehe!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Why is it, even after the Virginia Tech massacre, that Americans still resist calls for more gun controls?

Answer:

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

In the recent GOP debate last week, when someone mentioned that some people believe more gun ownership is a proper remedy for incidents like the VA Tech massacre...didn’t the audience erupt in laughter? After that, did any candidate address the point and tell the audience why it was a sensible remedy?

[gridlock]

From The Times of London. Wow!

[CPOSharky]

The short answer is that “gun controls” do not work: they are indeed generally perverse in their effects. Virginia Tech, where 32 students were shot in April, had a strict gun ban policy and only last year successfully resisted a legal challenge that would have allowed the carrying of licensed defensive weapons on campus.

How about "licensed concealed carry"? Virginia doesn't license or register firearms. Also, Virginia is an open carry state. There are situations where if you carry, the law requires it to be open.

[DownInFlames]

Yep, I’d feel better driving OTR with a 357mag or 38 snub.

[bmwcyle]

CCW for VA and FL. I feel safer. It will not be 100% but it is better than 0% like VT.

[L98Fiero]

“It’s not about feeeelings, wooo-oooh-oooh feeeelings.”

Pretty much my opinion as well. “Feeeeeling” safe will get you killed. There is no safe. There is prepared and unprepared.

[Larry Lucido]

Yep!

[Bullfrogg]

I live out in the country, and every time I go outside in the dark, I have a flashlight, and a russian makarov in my back pocket. I am safer considering the hooligans roaming around
at night.

Bullfrogg

[Rummyfan]

Thanks for those quotes!

[wmc-50]

I caught this nice man peeping in the windows of my home where my wife and children were watching TV. I stuck a loaded pistol in his face and subsequently had him arrested and charged.

A short time later he was charged with raping a woman who was unconsious due to intoxication....found not guilty...she couldn't testify as to consent..

Yes I feel safer with a gun in my home.

http://www.ncfindoffender.com/details.aspx?SRN=013707S3