Life After CCW

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Shoot to STOP!

Although I can understand the sentiment . . . it's shoot to STOP, not shoot to KILL.

An important difference for the aftermath.

Your CCW gives you the ability to effectively excercise the right to defend yourself.

It is not a license to kill.

Not trying to get preachy on you, but you need to condition yourself to this important distinction - so that in the two seconds after the event where you forgot to tell the cop "I'm not saying anything without a lawyer" and you say you shot to kill . . . . . . well that would be BAD from both civil and criminal perspectives.

(Welcome to THR, good luck and God Bless!)

(edited to add - Someone beat me to it!)
 
Thanks for your openness and great post. Tell all your girlfriends. I love knowing that some of my girl friends pack...I like knowing they have a bit of a self defense equalizer against an attacker.
 
Annie,
I sent your post to my wife, mother and in-laws. I wish more women would make the same decisions you have. I am sorry you had to have a terrible experience, but I am glad you are taking the initiative to protect yourself rather than hope the police will be able to protect you. Best of luck to you in the future, and if you ever come to N.E. Ohio I would love to burn through some rounds with you.

Tiny
 
Let's try to keep the drooling to a bare minimum. I really hate having to sop that stuff up with a rag.

Thanks,
The Management
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I apologize for the fact that my joke was not well recieved. :uhoh:
 
Thanks!

I appreciate all the responses...even the Homer Simpson quote.:D

Thanks for the headsup on shoot-to-kill vs shoot-to-stop. Upon reflection I guess it's to be prepared to kill someone. I hope I never need to, though.

One thing that irks me is how many Clevelanders I know go to one of the neighboring counties because the S.O. in that county doesn't want to issue it, so folks can wait forever. I don't live in Cleveland but I work there and am appalled that their rights are being denied (or at least delayed). Mix in a little racism and a little anti-gun, and you have a bunch of law-abiding citizens who get stuck in the system and unable to carry when they live in neighborhoods where it would be helpful to have a gun.

White rednecks aren't the only ones legally packing:D My CCW class was racially and geographically mixed - young urbanites and backwoodsmen alike.:) I, for one, am pleased with the universal appeal of legal self-defense.
 
In self-defense situations you desire to "stop the threat" and that is what you say upon advise of your legal counsel. But follow the instructions of your firearms instructor.
"If you're going to draw, shoot. If you're going to shoot, shoot to kill."
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Now if in that split second while you are lining up the shot, the BG turns and runs, You stopped the threat. If while lining up the shot and the BG keeps coming and you have to shoot, then make sure you use that deadly force, deadly.

OBTW great post, I enjoyed it.
 
An Outstanding Post

Anyone who thinks carrying a handgun makes them tough or cool would do well to listen to this lady's words. Carrying should make us more aware of the awesome responsibility we accept when we decide to carry a weapon. Be willing to use it, and capable with it, but understand the seriousness of your decision to carry.
 
Wow

your quote:
Here is what I have found since I acquired my CCW and started carrying a gun everywhere I legally can. I had thought it would make me more paranoid that everyone I passed on the street would want to hurt me. Actually I have the opposite effect. Knowing that I can take someone's life makes me less likely to want to do so.

In my travels in life I have found that self-reliant people are very comfortable and calm with themselves and this spreads to their kids. And people that rely on others for everything are very anxious in nature.

CCW had an inner calm effect on me as well. Doesnt make you go on automatic pilot but the freedom to have meanfull protection for my family is comforting.

I hope you find peace, love and God's grace in life. I pray you are healing well. Welcome aboard!!
 
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Good for you!!!

My (female) friends that were victims only became more submissive and victimlike. I never understood that. Many womens groups seem to promote this mindset, that's why they offend me (I am a female as well). They have brainwashed women into not resisting, and train women to have more compassion for criminals than respect for their own well being. They also imply women are too stupid to learn how to use a gun and take care of herself. This, from the "hear me roar" crowd. I don't even try to talk to these people anymore or argue with women that do not want to empower themselves by learning how to use a firearm. If they think like that then they probably aren't going to be able to use good judgment if they really have to defend themselves.

Now I just say "maybe you think the life of a miscreant is more valuable than your own but I don't"

I blame people like that (pacifists) for letting the world disintegrate into the condition it's in today. They've made the world a more dangerous place for everyone by giving bad guys a sense of entitlement and in some places, a legal right of non-interference to do as they wish, with not so much as a finger lifted in resistance from good people.

It's a cultural conditioning, this misguided sympathy and campassion for these feral humans, over the well being of everyone else, I'm glad you were able to overcome it. Never let anyone let you feel your life and well being are not worth defending again!
 
"If the bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girl stuff. Like hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such." - Homer Simpson
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'Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite.. And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle...Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.' Judges 4
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