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Originally Posted by momesu
Call me naive about the risk of being attacked while walking the streets of TV, call me a radical left leaning radical, call me out for having my head stuck in the sand, but I am NOT comforted knowing people are out there carrying concealed weapons tucked into the band of their golf shorts.....I do not nor ever will agree that people carrying guns keep us more safe. JMHO! Please don't flame me fro my naivety.
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So you are saying that it would be safer if only the criminals carried guns? There is no way you are going to stop criminals from carrying guns (just ask Bloomberg) so what you are advocating is guns for those who would disobey any anti carry law but not for law abiding citizens? Remind me how does that make us safer? I just do not get it why people fear law abiding citizens carrying guns when it is wel known that criminals do despite the thousands of gun laws out there.
I ask you one question. Would you put a sign on your front lawn stating that your home is gun free? Your answer determines if you feel that having a gun is a deterrent to crime or not. Some of us buy into the concept that the more armed citizens we have the more wary criminals are. Statistics seem to bear this out. Then there is the issue of the second amendment and the Supreme Court upholding that the Police have no obligation to protect the citizen, only society on the whole. Of course you are entitled to your opinion but it has been my experience that those who feel as you do have never been subjected to violence by a criminal. Every day victims of criminal violence say they thought it could never happen where they live or to them. I thought that way once and the feeling of helplessness I felt then will never be repeated. Odds are that you will never need a gun but those odds are not zero. In fact, last year I ran into a young man in a store on 441 in TV with a gun in his pocket. I notice such things having done security for several companies as part of my job.
He was looking around nervously and kept glancing at the lone cashier. He finally put his hand in the pocket with the gun and headed towards the cashier. I stepped out into his path and put my hand on my gun and stared at him. He looked hard at my hand in my pocket, looked at the cashier and then rapidly walked out and into a waiting black Escalade. I knew he had a gun in his pocket because I saw it. He was walking aimlessly through a store filled with several white haired ladies and one male, me. He was nervous and he kept looking back at the cashier. He did make his move when there were no customers at the register. Was he just a young man dressed as a thug looking for home furnishings in a store that caters to an older crowd's taste or was he trying to rob the place right here in TV? Was the Escalade waiting for him outside just there in case he bought something large? I will never know but I do know that when he realized that I was armed he beat a hasty retreat. Since that day last year I now carry a bigger gun when shopping at stores on 441. I honestly feel that my having a gun prevented a robbery and perhaps worse. Then there was the time in my Company's parking lot where three homeless guys holding pipes surrounded me and I merely showed them my gun and they left and said they were sorry. Once I came home to find a "worker" in my walled in Villa. He said he just wanted water from my hose. I told him that there was a hose right in front of the house where he did not have to open a gate to get to it. I now lock my gate. Last year there was a deranged gent openly carrying his gun in Coloney Plaza and he sounded like he had mental problems. Glad that I had my gun in TV that day also. Just like the many people who install burglar alarms after they are robbed, many carry guns after they have an encounter with a criminal. Funny how their beliefs change so rapidly.
Not beating up on you as you may do as you please but just as I do not try to change laws to coincide with my religious beliefs no not advocate that anyone follow your gun beliefs. Despite your views, most of s who feel a duty to protect ourselves and those we love, would probably use their guns to protect your life too, unless you ask us not to at the time.
What I have learned from life is that trouble seems occur where you do not expect it because when you do you are more on your guard. Also call your local Sheriff and inquire about the number of reported home burglaries in TV, most attributed to renters and visitors. Then after you hear the numbers imagine coming home unexpectedly and surprising a desperate burglar in your home. He has a knife and you have your....