Who called you paranoid?

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Got thinking about this. Awhile back my mom accused me of being paranoid. "You sure have a lot of fears," she said -- after I opined that maybe just maybe she & dad should get a lock for the gate into the alleyway behind their house.

Do your friends & relatives think you're paranoid, too?

pax
 
Nah, cause I don't tell them about all the voices... :D

Joking aside, I don't talk about all of the concerns I have, so they don't take me off to see a shrink.
 
I was at my parents house about a month or so ago and my Mom asked if we could have a "serious" conversation. I said sure. We sit down and in a very concerned tone she asks me if I think the world is going to come to an end soon. I'm thrown WAY off by this as I was expecting a talk concerning their will or how they want to be buried. Something like that, but I never suspected that.

I asked why she was asking and come to find out my fiance was telling her about the survival stuff I've been hording in my basement along with my firearms collection. I started to laugh and she gets a little angry and says
"I'm serious!"

UH OH :eek: I haven't heard that tone since I was a kid coming home after curfew! Had a "serious" talk with the fiance when I got home.
 
I remember reading a book about the Warsaw Ghetto in WWII. A few people with a few guns made a HUGE difference. When the writer , a teenager at the time , was first seen by his mother with a gun , she asked "what am I raising , a gangster? " She was totally unable to deal with reality as their world collapsed around them........But there is a difference between paranoia and being careful. Wearing a seat belt -is this paranoia ? Having a fire extinguiser in the house ,paranoia ? Locking your doors etc ,etc paranoia ?
 
Yes, and I tell them, "Just because you are paranoid, that doesn't mean somebody isn't wanting to kill you".

I believe that when it comes to your safety or the safety of those you care about, it is always better to be proactive and in a heightened state of awareness at all times.

Clint Smith said it best. "People will call you paranoid if you carry a gun. That is ridiculous. If you carry a gun you have nothing to be paranoid of."

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
 
am i paranoid? no, i'm not really even that concerned

am i perceived as paranoid by most of my non-gunnut friends? yeah. i get those little 'subtle hints' about once/month or so.
 
Rockrivr ~

What a terrible story! :D

I think I'd probably have sat there with my mouth flapping open & shut, something out of the blue like that.

pax
 
Hey, no fair leaving the stories out!

If someone called you paranoid, or dropped a hint, or whatever -- we want details! Who & when? What'd you say?

pax
 
I don't think so. I will plead guilty to being observant of my surroundings & prepared for various things however (the knife in my pocket spends most of it's "in use" time opening packages/mail).

The people who chuckle at my "parinoia" also seem to be the first to call if they need help with/a solution to a problem of theirs :scrutiny: .
 
I have a good friend who called me paranoid when he found out that I carried "even at home". I kept telling him that you *never* know what is going to happen, even here in the "safest city in the country".

Then we had that crazy dude shoot three people, carjack a truck at gunpoint, beat a woman to death, beat three other people including two children, and wound a cop before killing himself in the Simi WalMart.

The initial killings occurred right around the corner from my good friend's house.

He no longer thinks that I am paranoid; he, in fact, now carries a PM9...even at home.

Sawdust
 
No, but I am getting more and more "concerned".
Many "older" people don't see, or don't want to see the changes that have occurred over time. The world is becoming more and more dangerous for individuals. As a result self-protection is becoming more and more necessary. It's really too bad, but it's true.
 
I'm not paranoid, really.

Why do you ask?

Who are you anyway and why do you want to know if I'm paranoid.

Are you with the gov't?

Are you from Dr. Hannibal's office, cause if you are I'm not going back.

Why do you ask so many questions.

I can't talk now, I've got to go clean my guns...


I'm not paranoid, really......am I ?
 
I don't think so. I will plead guilty to being observant of my surroundings & prepared for various things however (the knife in my pocket spends most of it's "in use" time opening packages/mail).
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+1. Some of my family members think I am paranoid though. Lucky for me, they don't know about the half-dozen times I have cleared the house while they were asleep, because I thought I heard someone walking around, or opening a door (all false alarms, BTW).
 
I'm not going to answer such a question from a poster who is obviously a federal agent trying to pry into my personal affairs! Lets just say this AGENT PAX that you and the rest of the FBI's secret cadre couldn't get me by having my neighbors spy on me (YEA don't think I did not notice my neighbors walking their dogs and then occasionally surreptitiously LOOKING at MY HOUSE) - that's why I nailed plywood over my windows! And you couldn't do it with the bugs you planted in my office in my water cup - that's why I only drink pure grain alcohol and rainwater! In fact you could not do it with the Martian brain wave reading machine because *I* am smart enough AGENT PAX to keep you out of my head using my special hat made of Reynolds Wrap.

Oh yea, nice try on your attempt AGENT PAX on turning my dog against me ! But THAT wont work either!

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NOBODY ANSWER PAX's Question! They will come and get you!
 
In truth, I'm not paranoid, just aware. I've seen a lot of violence in this world, largely because of the way I've lived. The fact is, when it happens, it happens here and right *now*. There's no time to get trained, no time to go home and get a gun-sometimes not even time to acsess the one you're wearing-and the police will arrive after it is over. You are the only one who can protect you and yours. Bottom line.
Biker
 
Okay, real answer.....yes.

And my family has many concerms about me. They don't understand why I carry a gun in Church, of all places. I told them it was to make sure the preacher kept to the Good Book and not bring in any of the new age crap. They didn't think that was funny.

They also think its weird that each of my vehicles is equipped standard with a rifle of some sort.(legally of course).

The best though was when we had some friends over for dinner from church. The guy is a gun enthusoast and Champoin Competition pistol shooter. His wife pretends to hate guns.

So were talking after eating and she (my friends wife) says something like, "so your wife says you have something like 30-40 rifles in your gun closet, is that true?"

I do a quick count in my head and think not even half that but let's play along...."yeah, so?" I reply.

What do you need all those guns for?" she asks.

"So I can arm the neighborhood when the SHTF." I say

Her eyes got as big as saucers until she realized I was joking (not really, but I convinced her I was).

Later that night I ask my wife, did you really tell her I had 30-40 guns in my collection?

"Yes" she says.

I'm thinking....AWESOME, I can go get more guns to fill the gap!
 
I was at a Coltons restaurant with my younger brother and sister (24 and 20 at the time) and a co-worker of my sister's. My brother made a comment that he found particularly funny and nudged me in the ribs when I wasn't laughing (he sometimes has a rather ... crude ... sense of humor). At least, he tried to hit my ribs. What he got was my GI Springer in my shoulder holster. He threw his hands out and proclaimed in a loud voice, "Get off me, dog! I can't believe you're wearing that!" I just shrugged and was going to let it go but he kept on with statements like "You just wear that to feel big," and "Oh, no, the waiter's gonna mug you!" until he realized that I was ignoring him and that everyone else at the table was tired of hearing him run his mouth.

The next day I found out that the same restaurant we'd been in had been robbed at gunpoint the previous week. I didn't bother saying anything to my brother about it, because I knew he wouldn't care or change his mind.

My sister, however, asked me to help her pick out a pistol and where she should go to get her AR CHL. :D
 
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