Several people have said that people that carry a gun are wimps. If you are going to go to blows go to blows with your fists and if someone wants to threaten your life then you should be able to defend your life.
What do you say?
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Several people have said that people that carry a gun are wimps. If you are going to go to blows go to blows with your fists and if someone wants to threaten your life then you should be able to defend your life.
What do you say?
I don't start trouble with anyone, but I'll certainly finish it if they insist.
Deadly force laws are written in such a way that the use of a firearm is only justified when absolutely necessary, and that includes brandishing. The only time I'd call someone a wimp for carrying a gun is if they start fights just because they know they've got a gun for protection.
As far as I'm concerned, a fight for your life should never be fair. F*ck anyone who says otherwise.
Well I think if you actually let someone calling you a whimp for carrying a firearm or a knife affect you, then you've most likely got self-esteme issues to begin with. I don't judge my own personal value or worth based on someone, especially someone who lacks the same degree of knowledge about firearms as I have, have an effect on me based on my preference for having/carrying them.
Then again, when the Zombies come, I'm sure those will be the first folks lined up as fodder! [roll]
I once had some idiot start screwing with me on the highway late one night. He followed me to my apt. then got out of his car exclaiming, "I'm gonna kick you a$$ MF!" He was easily twice my size and fully capable of following up on his threat.
I did not shoot him. I did not point a gun at him. I mearly stood my ground, and racked a round into my Colt Govnt Model.
At that point he just froze and asked, "What are you gonna do with that?"
"Well, I'm not gonna let you beat me to death, that's for sure."
He ended up getting back in his car and driving off, still a free man and very much alive, and I ended up without a scratch. Had I not been armed, or only armed with a knife, I'd have gone to the hospital and he'd be in jail.
I have no problems carrying a gun. People can call me anything they want, except late fer supper. Am I a wus, a wimp? Damn skippy, but I'm a healthy wimp.
yup..couldn't fight myself out of a wet paper bag anymore: cracked vertebrae with seperated ligaments and muscles, bone spurs, dead and damaged nerves..messed up for life. Bad right shoulder, previously broken right wrist, bad ankle. Too broke to fight fair, so if I had to, I'd wimp out and use my equalizer. I know I'm not in near as bad shape as some out there and I'd like to keep it that way.
I don't start shit with anyone and I'm not going to let someone start shit with me. If someone insists that fighting me is a good idea then I'll do what I have to to change their mind about it. I agree that brandishing is bad. I also realize that as soon as I pull out my gun that the entire situation changes dramatically. That won't stop me from pulling it out to discourage some idiot drunk and his buddies from beating me up, though. You don't have to be in fear for your life to use your gun. You have to be in fear of your life OR great bodily injury. If I can walk away then naturally that will be my first choice. Sometimes they won't let you.
I watched it happen a couple of weeks ago downtown at 3 am. A couple of guys were walking through a parking lot when a bigger group of guys started shit with them. They really had nowhere to go. One of the guys in the big group started arguing with one of the other guys. A few seconds later he got jumped and beat down. It happened fast. Who knows what the whole story was. All I saw was a couple of normal looking guys try to get past a bunch of thugs in a parking lot and they got jumped for it. I couldn't help but wonder if, had I been in that situation, pulling out my gun would have been the right decision.
Gun, knife, stick, bare hands and feet, whatever... I will defend myself, my loved ones, my friends, my neighbors and my property to my full ability if any are justifiably threatened. Never started a fight in my life, and I plan to keep it that way.
It's simple: Don't start any $hit, there won't be any $hit. :mrgreen:
I say YOU SHOULD NOT LISTEN TO LIBERALS........... They are lucky they have enough brain capacity to remember to keep breathing.Quote:
Originally Posted by glockmaster
If you run your mouth then yes be a man and go blow to blow carrying a gun has nothing to do with that. Carrying a gun is about when you DON'T pick the fight it comes to you and you have no choice.
Sticks and stones.......
I'm too old, and busted up, to fight.
Call me what you will.
Flee or fight. I've got too many problems that keep me from running. The option left is to fight. I make my living with my brain and my hands and don't plan to damage either. I've never started a fight, but I finished every one of them.
When my wife is with me, she can't defend herself. It's my job to make sure no harm comes to her.
The police investigate crime. It's not their job to prevent it. You are your own first line of defense. If someone is dumb enough to take their fists to a club/knife/gun fight, they have other mental issues.
Exactly. To me, that is the bottom line. The police are not legally required to protect us, most drooling gun grabbers don't realize that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gman
Self defense is one of the fundamental laws not only of humanity, but of most of the animal world. It's just that for decades humanity has been conditioned with a victim mentality, and as a result many can't take responsibility for their own actions and livelihood/safety.
I don't ever start fights, deos that mean I'm one of the sheep.......Maybe a wolf in sheeps clothing.
Hmm... Ice Pirate, you didn't have one in the tube? I am too old and slow not to have a round chambered when I carry.Quote:
I mearly stood my ground, and racked a round into my Colt Govnt Model
As far as being called a 'wimp' who cares what someone calls you, it what they try and do to you that matters more.
Love the Zombie comment. You may have to wait for a class 4 outbreak, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by BadShot
I have heard tell that anyone who USES a gun is a coward. Usually from uninformed people. I personally have seen the bad side of humanity and that is why I own firearms.
I love the Zombie comment too. I told the wifey, when she asked, the reason I wanted more magazines for my still unfired ak, was when the zombies come I can get more of them, then with a pistol.
don't mean to hijack
:twisted: I just finished Dead Rising. GREATEST ZOMBIE GAME EVER. 150 hours well spent. PM me if you need tips. We now have the light sabre. :twisted:
+10000 on being prepared for the undead.
I'm also prepared for Vampire or Werewolf scenerio too. Large supply of cast silver bullets.
I still need to cast a few mags worth of silver bullets. I also need to get a suppressed rifle and a few thousand rounds of ammo for it in case of zombie outbreak.
I was younger and faster then. :mrgreen:Quote:
Originally Posted by cheapo
Theses days are another matter.
[poke] "Don't poke the old fat guy, they don't get that old without learning a few tricks along the way."