12-09-2015, 03:18 PM
A factor most of us, and especially the anti-gun community, often forget is that there is no such state as "perfect safey."
That means that the sheep truly gamble that the random killing won't happen when they are around. If it does, they hope that the police arrive in time before they get shot too. They tend to ignore the odds against them given the attack happens when they are there.
The person carrying has to also understand that he or she is gambling that a) that hey are not the first to get shot, b) they can identify a suitable target, and c) There isn't second shooter they don't know about.
Yes, there are indeed lots of examples of the person carrying either as LE a citizen gets shot or that they shoot the wrong person. There are, however, enough examples where the weapon in good guy hands makes enough of a difference to justify their presence.
As for keeping guns out of the hands of the bad guys as our current leadership extols, consider Paris. France has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world. That did not prevent the weapons from appearing there.
We all need to accept that life is a gamble. The best we can do is to stack the odds favor of ourselves and our community.
One of my former flight instruction colleagues had a favorite phrase that suncinctly summarises the issue: "Ya pays your dime and ya takes your chances!"
That means that the sheep truly gamble that the random killing won't happen when they are around. If it does, they hope that the police arrive in time before they get shot too. They tend to ignore the odds against them given the attack happens when they are there.
The person carrying has to also understand that he or she is gambling that a) that hey are not the first to get shot, b) they can identify a suitable target, and c) There isn't second shooter they don't know about.
Yes, there are indeed lots of examples of the person carrying either as LE a citizen gets shot or that they shoot the wrong person. There are, however, enough examples where the weapon in good guy hands makes enough of a difference to justify their presence.
As for keeping guns out of the hands of the bad guys as our current leadership extols, consider Paris. France has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world. That did not prevent the weapons from appearing there.
We all need to accept that life is a gamble. The best we can do is to stack the odds favor of ourselves and our community.
One of my former flight instruction colleagues had a favorite phrase that suncinctly summarises the issue: "Ya pays your dime and ya takes your chances!"
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"To those who have fought and almost died for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
-- Author Unknown
"If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished!" -- Milton Berle