Posted on 10/15/2013 6:04:34 PM PDT by markomalley
It kills me when I hear anti-gunners exclaim how they are against guns because they have a right to feel safe.
A right to feel safe?
Are you kidding me?
I looked through the entire thesaurus looking for a word that could capture how disgustingly self-entitled that statement is.
The word I came up with cant be written in this article so use your imagination.
You dont have a right to feel safe anymore than I have a right for Zoe Saldana to be in love with me.
Its ridiculous to think you have a right to feel safe, with that line of reasoning we should put everyone who looks scary in jail because they make you feel a certain kind of way, kill all the scary dogs because they make you feel a certain kind of way. Why not lock up Joe Biden who would put a shotgun out the door and fire two blasts in the air if ever attacked? Thats unsafe. Lets throw him in sing-sing because its unsafe. Ban all knives, cars, or anything that may make you feel unsafe, because its your right to feel safe, even if youre not.
This is the problem with this debate, you have a group of people proposing measures focused on how it makes them feel versus the real results.
When were talking matters of life or death your feelings have no place in the debate. I feel safer driving than I do flying but Im actually safer flying than I am driving.
But I feel in control when Im driving and it gives me a false sense of security, kind of like gun control gives antis the false sense of security that creating laws making guns illegal means they disappear and are instantly safer.
You cant afford to go off feelings when we are talking about safety.
Buy a car based on your feelings.
Pick a restaurant based on your feelings.
Buy a house, choose a wife or a husband, buy a dog all based on your feelings, but when it comes to how I protect myself and my family, your feelings mean nothing to me as my feelings should mean to you.
Your right to feel safe is nothing more than naïve narcissism sprinkled with a touch of stupidity.
You dont have a right to feel safe by taking away or severely limiting peoples means to protect themselves. We arent in kindergarten anymore where youre allowed to wallow in your false sense of importance by limiting other people because of how you think it makes you feel.
Were adults. We solve problems with cognitive reasoning not emotional tirades. As an adult you no longer have the luxury to demand the comfort of milk and cookies at the expense of real solutions. Being an adult isnt burying your face in the bosom of the government demanding they make all the bad guns go away. So please, grow the hell up.
Really. How do they respond to those of us who feel safer owning a firearm?
It’s all about THEM, not you and me.
They have their heads in the sand.
The German Nazis who gave themselves the right not to know were prosecuted. Wanting a head in the sand regarding crime commited on others nd making them defenseless is evil.
Crime is not their neighborhood nor congress, and just like for Obamacare, they dont need to care.
Love his YouTube channel....
See, nothing but emotion and feelings.
Now if you had said a Glock....(running and hiding ;)
Hawt dang, Zoe, Call me. /wink
Hey!
Laz says...
Arachnophobes have a right to live in a spider-free world. OK. Should we make the world level to accomidate those with a fear of heights?
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