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Originally Posted by billethkid
Graicie your comment:
"For those that do...it seems to be a form of showing off."
May be appropriate for the miniscule number that behave as you allege.
I will venture to say those who behave in such a manner they probably do not have a permit.
And for those of us who do have permits there is no way any would behave as you inappropriately paint those who carry with a very inaccurate picture of who they are and how they behave.
It is OK to not be for guns and what ever else comes with the belief. It is quite another to to speak negatively about a segment of the population that most of you know nothing about.
The so called "need" to own and or carry a gun is, as I have stated many, MANY times on TOTV, no different than carrying insurance (of any kind). Insurance is nothing more than a just in case situation....is it not?
People who feel differently about guns than you and many like you need to understand that those of us who do carry do so for the VERY SAME REASON, just in case.
I never attempt to change an anti gun's person views. I do however, take exception when well meaning folks like yourself, characterize us in a totally incorrect and negative way.
Gun owners are not what you see on the permitted violence called entertainment in the movies and television. They also are not the character painted by the media. They are your neighbors!!!
A real plus for many of you folks is that unlike the just in case insurance you have to pay for.....you get the benefit of us being in your midst....for free. We do what is right, under the law, and just in case, to protect ourselves or YOU!!!!
btk
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Billy. I respect you mightily. But I don't respect people who think it is o.k. to carry guns in a peaceful quiet community like ours. I don't know what I can learn about that particular mindset but according to my first amendment rights I can be a conservative and a person who is against laws like the one in Florida and have the right to say how I feel. I am 71 years old and none of the people that I know personally, none of my family carry guns or feel the need to. I have had three careers and in all that time working and flying across the country and moving about my world, I have never met anyone who tried to personally harm me.
I realize that others have had very dissimilar lives, but no one I know personally, including all of my huge family has had anyone try to harm them or rob them. They have never been in trouble with the law and they just aren't looking for trouble or put themselves in harms way if they can help it. I don't know why I should change my mind. I know bad stuff happens and I believe in the right to bear arms, but I don't see why people would carry firearms here in The Villages.
Now if I lived in an area or moved about in an area of high crime, I might feel differently.
AND if some gunman breaks into my home and shoots me and my loved ones and steals my good dutch oven...please do not feel you need to send flowers. Just say.. She was wrong.