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In reply to the discussion: do gun advocates ponder... nonviolence? [View all]rustydog
(9,186 posts)11. Hell no! I don't know one personally who has had to use their CCW
but the phrase I ALWAYS hear when they retell their "encounters" is "THANK GAWD I WAS PACKIN"!!!!"
No, they didn't display the weapon to discourage the evilly-intended one, they were just happy they were packin"!
It does not make you safer, IT MAKES YOU FEEL SAFER.
Feeling safer and BEING safer are two completely different things people.
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changed to "advocate".. I don't recall MLK jr. and his supporters ever taking guns into situations
G_j
Jan 2013
#6
I appreciate the change, even though it was of the "smaller caliber" flip-offs...
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#9
Get back to me on that when both branches Congress refuses to pass anything n/t
Lurks Often
Jan 2013
#13
You cannot know that for certain given the evidence available to you.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#45
Without evidence, *any* claim is no different than religious faith.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#57
Not for me. If some violent street criminal is about to attack me, he will get a violent response.
GreenStormCloud
Jan 2013
#27
How would you know? Is it unpossible that some might just not agree with you?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#47
Poor, poor you. Having people disagree with you is *such* a burden...
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#58