lol - I was hoping no one would call me out, but was too lazy to edit.I am unfamiliar with the term disban. Please advise.
just kidding - I'm only channeling my inner viny
lol - I was hoping no one would call me out, but was too lazy to edit.I am unfamiliar with the term disban. Please advise.
just kidding - I'm only channeling my inner viny
It's called a starting point or speaking point. One shouldn't always spew their beliefs in an instant if they are truly engaged in meaningful conversation.
I asked the question because pro-gun posters are being heckled with labels such as paranoid and afraid of their neighbors.
Having a military is admitting the same, imo, albeit on a much larger scale.
Let me get on a personal level, Jake. I never owned a gun, ever, until about the time I had my third child. My wife was jogging on our street and a guy pulled up and grabbed her trying to force her into his vehicle. Luckily, my wife is kind of a badass so it didn't work. Not more than 3 months later we had someone break our backdoor while we were asleep and entered our home. Thankfully, he had broken into several homes that night and police were on his trail. Almost the same time he entered police came right behind him. He had held another family that night at gunpoint.
I decided to buy protection as a DUTY to my family. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but I would expect most reasonable people to appreciate my right to do so.
Fair enough but with all due respect (you know I love ya) your comparison sucks.It's called a starting point or speaking point. One shouldn't always spew their beliefs in an instant if they are truly engaged in meaningful conversation.
I asked the question because pro-gun posters are being heckled with labels such as paranoid and afraid of their neighbors.
Having a military is admitting the same, imo, albeit on a much larger scale.
Let me get on a personal level, Jake. I never owned a gun, ever, until about the time I had my third child. My wife was jogging on our street and a guy pulled up and grabbed her trying to force her into his vehicle. Luckily, my wife is kind of a badass so it didn't work. Not more than 3 months later we had someone break our backdoor while we were asleep and entered our home. Thankfully, he had broken into several homes that night and police were on his trail. Almost the same time he entered police came right behind him. He had held another family that night at gunpoint.
I decided to buy protection as a DUTY to my family. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but I would expect most reasonable people to appreciate my right to do so.
It's called a starting point or speaking point. One shouldn't always spew their beliefs in an instant if they are truly engaged in meaningful conversation.
I asked the question because pro-gun posters are being heckled with labels such as paranoid and afraid of their neighbors.
Having a military is admitting the same, imo, albeit on a much larger scale.
Let me get on a personal level, Jake. I never owned a gun, ever, until about the time I had my third child. My wife was jogging on our street and a guy pulled up and grabbed her trying to force her into his vehicle. Luckily, my wife is kind of a badass so it didn't work. Not more than 3 months later we had someone break our backdoor while we were asleep and entered our home. Thankfully, he had broken into several homes that night and police were on his trail. Almost the same time he entered police came right behind him. He had held another family that night at gunpoint.
I decided to buy protection as a DUTY to my family. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but I would expect most reasonable people to appreciate my right to do so.
But what if something happens to your little ones BECAUSE you have guns?Let me add;
I hold my two year old little boy, my five year old little princess.. and my others, and I think to myself, I don't give two ****s what the gun laws are. I will protect them against anyone that wants to hurt them. I will not subscribe that a controversial law is more important than either my love for them or my sense of responsibility to them.
Samesies on the love/respect thing.Fair enough but with all due respect (you know I love ya) your comparison sucks.
The reward for a criminal breaking into a home of someone without a gun is minimal (a tv, computer).
The risk for the criminal breaking into a home of someone without a gun is large. (Go to prison, very hit with a baseball ball, attacked by a dog)
The reward for a country invading the usa with no military presence is a whole country and all its resources.
The risk is nothing really.
Huge difference.
Military need guns as part of their job/function/existence.
A civilian homeowner does not.
But what if something happens to your little ones BECAUSE you have guns?
I picture you, a drink in one hand, gun in another, shooting it over and over into the sky, hysterically yee-hawing.
Sounds cool, but no.
So someone breaks into your house and has a gun. You also have a gun. A shootout occurs. Many shots are fired. A bullet finds you or your family.Won't happen. Period.
My guns are locked in a biometric (fingerprint) safe and I never open it casually.
Someone's testy.
So someone breaks into your house and has a gun. You also have a gun. A shootout occurs. Many shots are fired. A bullet finds you or your family.
Doesn't have to be that a child gets their hands on your gun to have your family hurt by your gun.
Maybe that same criminal breaks into your home with a gun and simply steals some **** and leaves everyone unharmed if you don't own a gun.
I find it funny that people think owning a gun magically protects them from the bad guys.
From your two experiences you shared no one was hurt (you had no gun)
Brilliant logic. Except the discussion isn't about chemicals, meds and cars. It's about guns.
Way to ignore the flow of the thread gina.
Let me add;
I hold my two year old little boy, my five year old little princess.. and my others, and I think to myself, I don't give two ****s what the gun laws are. I will protect them against anyone that wants to hurt them. I will not subscribe that a controversial law is more important than either my love for them or my sense of responsibility to them.
Samesies on the love/respect thing.
I don't think it's any different at all. Except for scale.
My home is my country. My family is its civilians. I am troubled at how it's different.
I mean this with the utmost respect, but I think your paradigm would change if you were holding your own, innocent, precious child(ren). It changes you in ways that are incomprehensible.
it's completely, wholly, and utterly different.
No it's not.