Posted on 09/05/2013 2:26:24 PM PDT by lowbridge
It must the soul being seen on the face.
the state Legislature keeps citizens safe from harm”
Oh really? maybe Chicago should hear about this.
That’s news to millions of babies in utero.
Can one sue the state Legislature when they fail to keep one safe from harm especially this ‘Dick-her’ person? No? Thought so..... Feel safe in your fear, the Legislature is here!!
Well....Ha!!
Was she...once a he?
Is "she" going to protect me in the middle of the night?
Nope!
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And I have (or should have) the freedom to carry if that is what it takes for me to feel safe and able to defend myself and my family. Tell you what, I won't make you carry, and you don't make me not carry. That's called freedom.
...and that’s what we provide for in the state Legislature is for all of us in the state of Colorado — to feel safe on the streets without having to carry a gun,” said Mrs. Hullinghorst...
First, you're legislators, not superheros. You actually don't provide much in the way of safety. Sheriff's deputies, police, my fellow armed Coloradans, and the firearm(s) I carry provide my direct safety.
I'm glad you can walk the streets where you need to or choose to walk and feel safe unarmed. I cannot. There are places I go by both choice and necessity where I carry in order to feel relatively safe.
“The thought that the only way we can protect ourselves is to wield our own weapon is completely absurd and an argument that I absolutely discount as frivolous,” Mrs. Hullinghorst said.
Your discounting an argument doesn't make it any less valid. If anything it tells me you don't have a reasonable counter to it.
Also, I guarantee you the only way you can protect yourself is to carry. I don't happen to know martial arts. I don't have a deputy riding shotgun in my car. I don't have a bodyguard accompanying me. If my situational awareness fails me and I find myself in a bad position... If someone attacks me or my wife for whatever motivates criminals to do such things. (including apparently simply being bored) I will have just seconds to react. I will not have the minutes necessary to pull out a cell phone, talk to 911, give them a location, convince them of the urgency of my plight, and then wait for a LEO to come save my life, wife's virtue, possessions, etc. No.
If I'm lucky I can avoid the situation. If I have enough separation I can try a verbal warning (not legally required). If I have enough separation I can draw my weapon along with a followup warning. Finally, failing that, hopefully I will have the few critical seconds necessary to draw, aim, and fire my weapon to save my life. If I draw my weapon I will be firing it. If I fire, I shoot to kill, to stop the threat immediately and completely.
That is the reality on the street. I don't know what her view from the legislature is, but it isn't reality.
seems like it most days, doesn't it?
Ok, fair point .... where the legislature is supposed to work.
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