Every election season for about 15 years the idea that I might need to buy some fire arms comes to mind. My entire family knew how to shoot, went hunting and/ or owned guns. I got rid of mine years ago when I went back to college and lived with roommates. It is not like I feel guns solve any problems but we are living through some very w…
Every election season for about 15 years the idea that I might need to buy some fire arms comes to mind. My entire family knew how to shoot, went hunting and/ or owned guns. I got rid of mine years ago when I went back to college and lived with roommates. It is not like I feel guns solve any problems but we are living through some very weird and perilous times. And like others have stated here, you are not really paranoid if they are out to get you!
My uncle taught me to shoot when I was 7yo (a couple of years before he ended up in Vietnam as a Navy Seal.) When my kids were young, he taught both of them to shoot, too.
Guns are just tools -- lethal ones, of course, but chain saws can be, too. My husband and I own two handguns; one is a target pistol and the other is a heavier-duty handgun that's more effective against javelinas, giant murder pigs that roam the high desert in SW TX, where we had a little property and considered retiring at one point. The guns live in a small safe, hidden away but accessible -- think my grown daughter may know where, but no one else would.
We still believe strongly that killing people is fundamentally wrong, but if some ignorant fuckface threatened our family, I don't imagine either of us would hesitate to do what we must to protect them... I REALLY hope it won't come to that, but it's looking less and less likely that the US is going to escape this kind of violence this time.
Every election season for about 15 years the idea that I might need to buy some fire arms comes to mind. My entire family knew how to shoot, went hunting and/ or owned guns. I got rid of mine years ago when I went back to college and lived with roommates. It is not like I feel guns solve any problems but we are living through some very weird and perilous times. And like others have stated here, you are not really paranoid if they are out to get you!
My uncle taught me to shoot when I was 7yo (a couple of years before he ended up in Vietnam as a Navy Seal.) When my kids were young, he taught both of them to shoot, too.
Guns are just tools -- lethal ones, of course, but chain saws can be, too. My husband and I own two handguns; one is a target pistol and the other is a heavier-duty handgun that's more effective against javelinas, giant murder pigs that roam the high desert in SW TX, where we had a little property and considered retiring at one point. The guns live in a small safe, hidden away but accessible -- think my grown daughter may know where, but no one else would.
We still believe strongly that killing people is fundamentally wrong, but if some ignorant fuckface threatened our family, I don't imagine either of us would hesitate to do what we must to protect them... I REALLY hope it won't come to that, but it's looking less and less likely that the US is going to escape this kind of violence this time.
A shotguns is also a handy tool. Just sayin.
true -- I know I'd rather have a shotgun if I had to face down a crowd -- er, herd -- of Texas murder pigs lol...