(MN) Better ways to save your life than guns

[BrokenPaw]

Here's what I wrote to her paper:

Karin Winegar tells us that private citizens don't need guns because "...a .38 or a 9-millimeter or even an AK-47 are[sic] not much protection against anthrax, smallpox, suicide bombers and nuclear radiation. They are not much protection against heart disease, either, which is the chief killer of Americans (270 per 100,000), or cancer (203 deaths per 100,000) or diabetes (25 deaths per 100,000). "

She is absolutely correct that a handgun (or even an AK-47) will not protect me against smallpox. Or anthrax. Or nuclear radiation. Or heart disease.

Neither will a fire extinguisher. Do you have one in your home?

Since heart disease is the chief killer of Americans, there's no need to worry about a fire in your home; after all, you're more likely to die from heart problems than you are to ever need that fire extinguisher.

I do not intend to have a house fire. But I keep a fire extinguisher in my house. I do not expect to be in a car accident. But I have insurance. I do not expect to have a flat tire. But I keep a spare in the trunk. I do not expect to cut myself in my workshop. But I keep a first-aid kit in the closet.

I do not expect my family to be attacked. But I carry a gun.

I have carried it for years. I have never had to use it. It is unlikely that I will ever have to use it. But if I do, my life, my wife's life, and the lives of our kids may depend on me having it. Until that time, it's just like the fire extinguisher in my kitchen: it's there, just in case.

We'll see if they bite.

-BP

 

[t-money]

Nice one Broken Paw.

I think this liberal mindset comes from their way of thinking. They think, "Gee, I haven't had anyone ever threaten ME (underscore ME), therefore it never happens." or "I've never had someone stalking me or my family" or "I've never taken the wrong exit and been fearful of my life, so it's obviously overblown when it happens to someone else"


See. I don't smoke. But that kind of thinking would lead me to say, "Because I don't smoke, therefore, no one should smoke".

They continually apply 'life in their own personal environment' to the lives of the rest of the people.

How we as individual citizens defend ourselves and our family is not the governments concern, neither is it HERS!! If she doesn't want a CCW permit, then as an American citizen, she is free to decline.

 

[QKRTHNU]

And no matter how Schwarzeneggerish it makes us feel, a .38 or a 9-millimeter or even an AK-47 are not much protection against anthrax, smallpox, suicide bombers and nuclear radiation. They are not much protection against heart disease, either, which is the chief killer of Americans (270 per 100,000), or cancer (203 deaths per 100,000) or diabetes (25 deaths per 100,000).

I guess I should stop wearing seat-belt since it won't save me from disease that is much more likely to kill me than an auto accident.

I guess I should take the locks off my door since I'm more likely to get sick than to be attacked in my home.

I guess I should tell my little brother and sister to not wear their helmets anymore while riding their bikes, since they're more likely to be killed by a heart-attack.

I guess I should throw out the OC spray I gave to my wife since she might be blown up by a suicide bomber.

Does this person really see these as logical arguments against CCW? :banghead:

 

[Partisan Ranger]

MN Trooper to Distraught Woman Whose Husband Was Just Killed By a Thug -

Well, look at the bright side, lady, MN is only 35th in murders nationwide, so you're one of Minnesota's unlucky few.

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This lunatic writer proves to me yet again that leftists are incapable of logical, coherent thought on any subject, save fingerpainting.

PR

 

[Partisan Ranger]

"Want to deter bad guys in other countries from committing mayhem here? Eliminate the fury and discontent bred of poverty -- what author Thomas L. Friedman calls "the hanging around guys," the unemployed and hopeless young who need a mission and find it in fundamentalism. However quick and easy and macho it seems, a Beretta in your belt won't do that."


God almighty, the United States carries the water for every other effed up nation on the globe. Now we're responsible for eliminating poverty in 3rd World thugocratic nations?

Once again, a leftist shows that she has a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature. No matter how much money you throw at people, evil still exists. It exists in all of us, but some people allow evil to overtake them and they do really , really bad things.

But to a leftist, government programs and spending taxpayer money can ALWAYS fix human nature. Utter drivel.

 

[Partisan Ranger]

Oh, and I love the puling "I know we're angry and scared" B.S. Sweetums, I know liberal bedwetters like you and Garrison Keillor are scared, but the last reason I have a CCW is because of fear.

I am an American citizen and I refuse to be a sheep waiting for the shephard to rescue me when the #### hits the fan. I fully understand that, despite the super-redundant, nanny-state safety features of modern society, the cops can't always be there to tuck me in at night.

I put my trust in God, not your nanny-state. And when God can't bail me out, then by God my gun will.

PR