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None--because I don't pass by people. I don't like being around other people.
I walk, and most people around here drive. They wouldn't walk to save their lives. Lazy bastards.
You do, IN FACT, walk by other people. Be it at your place of employment, on your infamous walks to a store. At the grocery store. Etc. YOU walk by people
Just you having a loaded gun is a threat to me. You could draw and fire upon me at any time. Thus I prefer it if you don't have one...to protect myself. Protecting myself is not against the law, is it?
Nor is my carrying a firearm, to protect myself, against the law either.
Just you having a loaded gun is a threat to me. You could draw and fire upon me at any time. Thus I prefer it if you don't have one...to protect myself. Protecting myself is not against the law, is it?
so any gun is a threat to you, even if it is safely tucked into a holster? as long as i am legally allowed to own and carry a firearm, it is my choice to do so. if you were to decide to preemptively take my firearm by force, that is theft and assault both of which would land you in jail since you have ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO EVEN TOUCH MY FIREARM OR ME. and believe me if you did that with me, i would press charges against you. the only time you could legally take my firearm from me is if i decided to draw it and point it at you. then i would be on the wrong end of the law, and you would have every right to disarm me.
but as long as that weapon is in my holster, it is no threat to you, and you cannot preemptively take it from me, unless you are law enforcement and you have detained me for a legal reason, and carrying a firearm is not a legal reason.
It's called self defense. It is in my best interest for you to NOT have a firearm around me, because I don't feel like getting shot by some nut with a gun. Now, once it's unloaded, you can have it back.
good luck spending time in jail for taking a legally held firearm from someone who can carry it. I just hope it isnt an undercover cop or and off duty cop you are taking it from.
Not sure if this had been said in previous posts or not. I do feel every responsible household should own a firearm because "when seconds count the Police are only minutes away"
Don't have one, very few people around here do. I live in a major suburban area with one of the lowest crime rates in the nation.
I think most of my neighbors have guns and probably it's a assumed most people have one so the violent crime rate is low.
I don't have one mainly because I have kids and I think they'd play with it or at least check it out - to me it's all about weighing the risks of not having one against the risks of having one.
With kids, it might be better to keep a gun locked up and then what good would it be - a few big dogs can be a good deterrent and I have those.
It was my general thought/presumption that most people do not have/own guns - -especially in a urban area (vs. farm country where I can easily assume people have guns). During multiple conversations with my neighbors over the last year or so I realized that most of them do own firearms.
Not sure if my area is an exception or if my assumptions were wrong. When I mentioned to one of my neighbors that I have none, they were extremely surprised and suggested 'I get on it.' I live in a large city, not somewhere isolated or in farm country and in a relatively safe neighborhood and owning firearms never came to my mind.
So this bring the question. Does your household owns firearms?
Do you think each household should? Do many of your neighbors/friends own firearms?
An armed society is a free society. Our governments (made of people) have arsenals that can pretty much destroy the planet yet there are plenty of people who believe you and I should not own a small firearm.
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