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Opinion: Anti-gunners banning guns for the “Right to feel safe”
The Daily Caller ^ | 10/15/2013 | Colion Noir

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 can’t be written in this article so use your imagination.

You don’t have a right to feel safe anymore than I have a right for Zoe Saldana to be in love with me.

It’s 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? That’s unsafe. Lets throw him in sing-sing because it’s unsafe. Ban all knives, cars, or anything that may make you feel unsafe, because it’s your right to feel safe, even if you’re 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 we’re talking matters of life or death your feelings have no place in the debate. I feel safer driving than I do flying but I’m actually safer flying than I am driving.

But I feel in control when I’m 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 can’t 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 don’t have a right to feel safe by taking away or severely limiting people’s means to protect themselves. We aren’t in kindergarten anymore where you’re allowed to wallow in your false sense of importance by limiting other people because of how you think it makes you feel.

We’re 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 isn’t burying your face in the bosom of the government demanding they make all the bad guns go away. So please, grow the hell up.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment

1 posted on 10/15/2013 6:04:34 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Really. How do they respond to those of us who feel safer owning a firearm?


2 posted on 10/15/2013 6:06:02 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

It’s all about THEM, not you and me.


3 posted on 10/15/2013 6:09:47 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: markomalley
Ok...had to look up Zoe Saldana.


4 posted on 10/15/2013 6:55:58 PM PDT by moovova
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To: markomalley

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.


5 posted on 10/15/2013 7:52:51 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Antihero101607

Crime is not their neighborhood nor congress, and just like for Obamacare, they dont need to care.


6 posted on 10/15/2013 7:54:32 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: markomalley
A cocked and locked 1911 makes me feel very safe.
7 posted on 10/15/2013 8:19:29 PM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: markomalley

Love his YouTube channel....


8 posted on 10/15/2013 8:23:42 PM PDT by papertyger ("refusing to draw an obvious conclusion does not constitute a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: Gabrial
A cocked and locked 1911 makes me feel very safe.

See, nothing but emotion and feelings.

Now if you had said a Glock....(running and hiding ;)

9 posted on 10/15/2013 8:26:32 PM PDT by papertyger ("refusing to draw an obvious conclusion does not constitute a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: skeeter
YOU scare me!
10 posted on 10/16/2013 4:59:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

11 posted on 10/16/2013 6:39:39 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: moovova

Hawt dang, Zoe, Call me. /wink


12 posted on 10/16/2013 6:42:15 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Utah Binger

Hey!


13 posted on 10/16/2013 8:47:44 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MaxMax; Lazamataz

Laz says...


14 posted on 10/16/2013 8:48:20 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: markomalley

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?


15 posted on 10/16/2013 2:56:53 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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