Apparently, we're paranoid.

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"But how do we protect ourselves against their superior firepower of golf clubs, SUVs, and baseball bats?"
Not to mention their Assault Minivans.
 
Anyone who's seen me with a holstered gun knows:

I'm not paranoid... I'm fashionable!

Just use this logic. You don't buy a flashlight AFTER the power goes out. So why would I wait until AFTER I'm attacked to buy a gun.
 
Paranoid in latin means " be prepared".
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Actually, I believe it means 'mad' or 'demented' (literally "beside one's mind") in Greek :cool: Semper Paratus (always prepared) is a reasonably close Latin approximation.
 
I had people calling me paranoid from the day I first bought a gun.

Sooner or later, they all terminated their relations with me in one way or another.

People only throw the word, "paranoid" as an insult and sign of disrespect. People who disrespect you are NOT your friends.

I will not associate with such people.

--Travis--
 
I'm not paranoid. I'm prepared/annoyed.

Prepared for a wide variety of situations, and slightly annoyed by social norms which frown upon such behavior.

Owning a gun is not, by itself, a paranoid act. Neither is owning scores of them, stockpiling fuel, food, water, and other supplies. After all, nearly everyone wants to stockpile money, and they only do so because they assume that they will be able to trade it for fuel, food, water, and other supplies.

What is paranoid is when you devote such a high percentage of your time and energy to being prepared for plan B, that you forget to have a plan A. This is at least as bad as having no contingency plan.

I think that sometimes, when people are very sad or unsatisfied with their lives, that they put all their energy into planning for a different world. It's a way of saying, "I may seem like a complete loser now, but when the big change comes, I'll be a winner then".

Major upheavals are fact of societies. War, economic depression, famine, pandemic, and natural disasters all happen, and it's good to be prepared for them. It's natural and healthy to invest your energies in such a way as to ensure your surviavl and the survival of your own people. This means not having all your plans staked on any one outcome, good or bad.
 
The problem was that every time we told them to get the renters insurance they had to face the reality that something bad could happen ... they preferred to live in a world where bad things only happened on TV.
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This is what you call, "hitting the nail on the head."

It takes a special type of fool to think that nothing bad could EVER happen to them...I think most people DO understand it's a harsh world out there, crap happens, but they just can't handle preparing for it because they can't handle thinking about the bad things happening TO them!

I've seen it first hand, and it AIN'T pretty. I just can't understand why it's SO traumatic to think about and prepare for "SHTF" situations when doing so gives you a measure of comfort after doing so! At least it does me?

This mainly relates to emergency prep issues, though I have been called paranoid for CCWing. ...well, actually *I* was the one who brought up that word, as in "Do you think we [CCWers] are all paranoid?" And the answer was "maybe a little..."

It's hard to remember that we're not mind readers, and that just because we're "sure" that someone WOULD think we're paranoid does not make it fact! ;)

Either way, maybe it's best to just be in a position where as few people as possible get reason to make that judgement on you...!
 
I have, it reminds me of this fable...

The Squirrel & The Grasshopper

The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the
winter. The Grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and
plays the Summer away. Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well
fed.
The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in
the cold.



Most sheeple have a vague sense of not being prepared, but bury it away with their Ipods...cognitive dissonance.
 
I used to think people were paranoid as well..

We live in a society now where we have the .gov (local and federal) to supposedly protect us from all the bad things. So any thought of a person protecting themselves is unheard of. Then I realized after living in a bad neighborhood for many years.. that the its not just on tv when the police arrived 10mins to late or never at all. That is real life. Its also real life that women are prey, that people get mugged. So is it paranoid to want to feel safe? Heck if Katrina wasn't an eye opener for some people then what will?

Heh.. remember when people who built bomb shelters in their basement were seen as insane?
 
For some reason most people like to thin they are immune to harm. Someone will always be there to protect them, everything will always work out okay. Self sufficiency is frowned upon or mocked. I can sort of understand why, we have it really good in the US. Most of us have probably never had to go to bed hungry or cold. If we're without power its usually for a couple hours. Most of us will never be the victim of violent crime. Everyone once in a while some unlucky person will wind up on their own after a storm or car problems or while down an empty street with a couple undesireable looking guys. Sometimes you learn the hard way that while life is good, crap still happens sometimes.
 
So how many of you have been called paranoid and such for keeping firearms?

From "Rules to live by" : Don't give a whit about people think about you.
Folks that criticize are often in Denial of their own inadequacies.

Screw 'em - feed fish heads and rice. 'Nam era

I fired my entire family - except one.
I fired so called "friends".

When a College Instructor went into how Guns were bad, Gun Control was Good, and Gun Locks should be required.

I stuck a Gun Lock on a small kitchen sized Fire Extinguisher, and using colored paper / poster board to symbolize fire I started a "fire" in the trash can.

Lady Instructor could NOT access the fire extinguisher to put out this fire.

I , other classmates walked out - time for a smoke break and we took one.
Figured Instructor needed to calm down and regain composure.
I/We - needed to laugh our butts off at her and the sheeple in class that agreed with here.

Paranoid? Not me.
I can be a Royal Pain in the backside when I want to be.

*shrug*
Anything that takes life - someday will cease to live.
Accept it, move on. Not your problem if some go earlier than what some life expectancy chart "says"...

From "Rules to live by" : Be selfish in taking care of yourself - for if you do not, then there is no way in Haydes you can be of any use to anyone else.
 
Life . . . Don't Talk To Me About Life . . .

I'm . . . a little . . . over 21 years old.

How's life been so far?
  • I've had a house burn down.
  • I've been in a handful of auto wrecks -- even caused a couple.
  • I've been beat up.
  • I've had to talk my way out of a beating. More than once.
  • I've had to run away from a beating. More than once.
  • I've had to put out a fire.
  • I've had to start an emergency fire.
  • I've had to stop the bleeding and close the gashes.
  • I've had to break the law to get someone to a hospital.
  • I've had to change a tire. More than once.
  • I've been burglarized.
  • I've been stranded on the road.
  • I've pulled folks out of a ditch, in the snow.
  • I've been pulled out of a ditch, in the snow.
  • I've been a first responder at a fatality.
  • I've been lost in a canyon.
  • I've fallen off a ladder.
  • I know what it is to be in shock.
  • I've run into a jellyfish while swimming.
  • I've been stalked in the woods by four legs and two.
It's been a fairly uneventful life, by most standards.

I'm not done with it yet, though, so there may be more excitement in store.

I'm prepared for pretty much all the stuff in that list, since it's been proven to me that it can happen.

Think maybe I'll keep a gun handy, too.

You just never know.

Or maybe I'm just paranoid.
 
sm beat me to it ... why should one ever worry -- or give any thought to or about -- what others may say about one or what terms others use to describe one?

Clearly, anyone who would call you paranoid by virtue of your status as a gun-owner, has never experienced anything bad in their own life ...
 
What is paranoid is when you devote such a high percentage of your time and energy to being prepared for plan B, that you forget to have a plan A. This is at least as bad as having no contingency plan.
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Well said,
Prepared or not, keeping your head is #1 Training and preparation is all well and good, but when things don't go as planned....:eek: Paranoia will take a back seat to panic, and that will be your worst enemy.
 
My friends and I call each other paranoid all the time - but we all agree that just because we're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get us! :neener:


Aside from those friends (who also own guns and carry concealed; or will be soon), and my parents (who are supportive and appreciate that I carry), nobody knows I carry, and very few know I'm a gun owner. Unless guns happen to come up in conversation (which I generally don't steer towards), I don't bring them up. If they do come up and the person seems to be pro-gun (or at least neutral on the subject), then I'll start talking. To date I've yet to have someone call me paranoid in a serious, "you've lost your mind" fashion.
 
Paranoia

Kaylee wrote:

>Oh don't worry, that's just one of the constants of the universe. Sooner or later they'll run into a Bad Person and be knocking on your door saying ... "um... can I borrow a gun?" <
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Yep. Or the most common one that comes after they've been chased down the highway at 0200...or actually backed into a corner and have only escaped by the Grace of God: Okay...Here it comes...You already know what it is...

"IF I'D ONLY HAD A GUN!!!"

:D
 
The same people that call us paranoid are the same ones that believe illegal immigration benefits us and if you do not agree you are racist, or the poor miscreant who steals because they grew up in a ghetto are underpriviliged and deserve our sympathy for being criminals. They do not believe in taking responsability for themselves and think the Govenment will protect everyone. One day when they are mugged on their way to ask to live with you because they lost their job to an immigrant and had their house forclosed on they might get the picture.
 
hah!
Just mentioning I was considering a CCW a while back a family member called me paranoid.
I thought he knew better, too.
 
If you could bring a bunch of dead crime victims back to life that were murdered and or raped then murdered in alleyways, in the woods, in their apartments or houses; etc, If they were asked if they had a chance to do it all over again and carry a firearm to protect themselves, I wonder what they would say?
 
My best friend, after finding out I CCW said to me: "Why are you so eager to kill someone?"

Yea, he's a big time lib.

AP
 
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