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Why I carry a Gun

Received the following in an e-mail ..... Well written I think.
Take care,
Mod1

Why I Carry a Gun

My old grandpa once said to me, "Son, there comes a time in every man's life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's when he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin'.

I don't carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don't carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I'm evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don't carry a gun because I'm angry. I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to Heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because, unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I AM inadequate.

I don't carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

"Police Protection" is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves. Police do not protect you from crime; they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.

Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin'."

...author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

Remember the average response time to a 911 call is over 6 minutes.

The average response time of a 357 magnum is 1400 FPS. (Feet per second)

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Originally Posted by MOD1 (Post 1604219)

I don't carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

And when the government aims to remove those limitations, you better take carrying a gun even more seriously...

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because a cop is too heavy????

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Originally Posted by IGrok (Post 1604409)

because a cop is too heavy????

and probably not as clean.

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Originally Posted by MOD1 (Post 1604219)

The average response time of a 357 magnum is 1400 FPS. (Feet per second)

That can be bumped up to 1600 FPS if need be!!!

:RockOn:

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And another reason that seems to be less and less universal around the world and even the states *Because I can*

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because a cop is too heavy????

Funny, but you are aware that a cop has no duty to protect you right?

The Supreme court and lower courts have all agreed that the police have no duty to protect you the individual. Even with a restraining order in place.

read this:
http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/ka...rotection.html

and this:
http://gunowners.org/sk0503.htm

and this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales

and this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_...ct_of_Columbia

http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/warren.html

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In the early morning hours of Sunday, 16 March 1975, Carolyn Warren and Joan Taliaferro who shared a room on the third floor of their rooming house at 1112 Lamont Street NorthWest in the District of Columbia, and Miriam Douglas shared a room on the second floor with her four-year-old daughter, were asleep. The women were awakened by the sound of the back door being broken down by two men later identified as Marvin Kent and James Morse. The men entered Douglas' second floor room, where Kent forced Douglas to sodomize him and Morse raped her.

Warren and Taliaferro, hearing Douglas' screams from the floor below. Warren telephoned the police, told the officer on duty that the house was being burglarized, and requested immediate assistance. The department employee told her to remain quiet and assured her that police assistance would be dispatched promptly.

Warren's call was received at Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters at 0623 hours, and was recorded as a burglary-in-progress. At 0626, a call was dispatched to officers on the street as a "Code 2" assignment, although calls of a crime in progress should be given priority and designated as "Code 1." Four police cruisers responded to the broadcast; three to the Lamont Street address and one to another address to investigate a possible suspect. (This suggests that when they heard that there had been a burglary, the police must have felt that they had a promising lead on a culprit.)

Meanwhile, Warren and Taliaferro crawled from their window onto an adjoining roof and waited for the police to arrive. While there, they observed one policeman drive through the alley behind their house and proceed to the front of the residence without stopping, leaning out the window, or getting out of the car to check the back entrance of the house. A second officer apparently knocked on the door in front of the residence, but left when he received no answer. The three officers departed the scene at 0633, five minutes after they arrived.

Warren and Taliaferro crawled back inside their room. They again heard Douglas' continuing screams; again called the police; told the officer that the intruders had entered the home, and requested immediate assistance. Once again, a police officer assured them that help was on the way. This second call was received at 0642 and recorded merely as "investigate the trouble;" it was never dispatched to any police officers.

Believing the police might be in the house, Warren and Taliaferro called down to Douglas, thereby alerting Kent to their presence. At knifepoint, Kent and Morse then forced all three women to accompany them to Kent's apartment. For the next fourteen hours the captive women were raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon one another, and made to submit to the sexual demands of Kent and Morse.

Appellants' claims of negligence included:

* the dispatcher's failure to forward the 0623 call with the proper degree of urgency;
* the responding officers' failure to follow standard police investigative procedures, specifically their failure to check the rear entrance and position themselves properly near the doors and windows to ascertain whether there was any activity inside;
* the dispatcher's failure to dispatch the call received at 0642 hours.

By a 4-3 decision the court decided that Warren was not entitled to remedy at the bar despite the demonstrable abuse and ineptitude on the part of the police. The court held that official police personnel and the government employing them are not generally liable to victims of criminal acts for a failure to provide adequate police protection.

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"Human beings can only interact with one another through two methods: reason or force. If at any point, either party chooses force, the other must either submit or respond with force. I prefer reason. But I am ready to respond with force. Submission is not an option.

T

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Originally Posted by TomD (Post 1604658)

And another reason that seems to be less and less universal around the world and even the states *Because I can*

They never act alone....