People ask why?

It's a cute poem, but the fact is, the law generally requires you to take a moderate beat down rather than draw on an unarmed assailant.

Not here in the little state of Texas...

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Amen brother!

Thats a good one... worthy of printing out and hanging above my reloading bench

DUKE OF DOUBT - "It's a cute poem, but the fact is, the law generally requires you to take a moderate beat down rather than draw on an unarmed assailant."

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Not in Idaho, either.

L.W.

+1 for Texas.
The land of "shoot people robbing your NEIGHBOR's house, and not get prosecuted."

Montana: "The right of any person to keep or bear arms in defense of his own home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but nothing herein contained shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons." Mont. Const. art. II, 12.

Need I say More!!

People ask me why, I ask them why not.

The only person I ever had ask me about my reasoning behind carrying a gun was my mother. She wondered why I carried at home.

I said, "Mom, what's to keep someone from kicking down that door right now and doing whatever they want? Do you think a cop could get here before someone could get from that door to you or me?"

Those are some good words.

Nicely put...

Duke, the law in Tennessee doesn't discuss whether the guy is unarmed or not - if a reasonable person would believe that I was about to suffer serious bodily harm, I can defend myself by means of a gun. I am a reasonable person and I BELIEVE a beatdown is serious bodily harm.

I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

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This one stood out to me as being the most honest and relevant statement of all of them. You can replace the "...and facing three armed thugs..." with just about anything including government. And since it's tax season, the "IRS" would fit nicely in that slot. haha

Not in Ohio.....

I am officially old enough to not be taking a butt kicking, or wanting to see if I lose. I'm big enough to have a good chance, but been around enough not to want to find out, and have enough people depending on me that I'm not going to!

It's a cute poem, but the fact is, the law generally requires you to take a moderate beat down rather than draw on an unarmed assailant.

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I don't mean to sound anal, but let me chime in my analysis to help you understand reality:

It does not matter if a "beating" is minor, moderate or severe. Anything that you can articulate as something that you feel is a genuine threat to your life is justifiable. Regardless of how big or threatening a perp is, it does not matter if he is armed with a knife, gun, etc. The ground is a weapon, a rock is a weapon, his/her teeth/hands are weapons.

If for some reason you are being BEATEN, by all means, you can draw down. Do you have to shoot? Not at all. What does the perp(s) do after you draw? Do they run? Do they stay and fight more? Do they laugh and try to grab your gun? Each of these responses should constitute one of two reactions: fire or keep your fore sight fixed until you get a chance to decide the 2 notions again.