Gun owners commit less crime

[DeusxMac]

wowzer wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
The root motivation - and justification; conscious or subconscious - for gun ownership is FEAR.
- Fear of the “bad guy”
- Fear of the “others”
- Fear of all unknowns

This fear is expressed at three progressively obsessive states:
1. Caution: They might come!
2. Fear-manifest: They are coming!
3. Paranoia: They are here!

There are also ancillary, fear-related supporting motivations:
- Machismo/manliness - Fear of appearing weak, effeminate
- Peer pressure - Fear of being ostracized by friends, being excluded

Perhaps you don’t believe in being prepared? Since I grew up in the 1980’s, inner city Brooklyn, I’ve been on the wrong side of guns many times. Is it fear? Definitely not. It’s knowing that I’m responsible for my immediate safety. If you want to be a sheep , ready for slaughter by bad men with guns, be my guest. Just know that you have consciously made that decision. When you insist that I don’t have the right to defend my life and those whom I love, there is the problem.


As for all those other baited writing, good luck trying to call me fearful. I’ve trained karatedo for 40 yrs. An untrained person wouldn’t be able to touch me. A gun is different. If you aren’t prepared to defend yourself, then you blindly go through life pretending that you are safe. That’s your choice.
Thanks for proving my points. miley-signs001: