Found this from the antis.
There has never been a moment in my life when having a gun on my person would have helped or saved me or my loved ones in any way. And before assuming my life has been a sheltered pile of roses, I will assure you that is not the case. I was once choked to the point of neck bruising by an ex-con. I spent a few nights sleeping in a car. I walked home (near downtown Milwaukee) alone in the middle of the night several times. There have been a number of situations of which could have led me to much harm. In none of those circumstances do I feel that carrying a gun would have helped me.
Ummm Can you tell us where to send flowers? She kinda reminds me of the Panda’s who refuse to have sex in the zoo. There’s a reason why the Human population keeps growing, and Pandas will probably one-day only exist in captivity.
I’ve got no problem with you deciding that a gun won’t do you any good because you haven’t been killed yet (Kinda the opposite of the “From My Cold Dead Hands” Cry) but I’ll be a little less risk tolerant, and keep a .45 on hand.
BTW there are members of my family and friends who ARE alive today because they were carrying a gun. And just to further ellipse this idiot, there are a HUGE number of my family and friends who own and carry guns and haven’t used them…or had a major problem because of them.
So why not carry, you never know. Buckling you safety belt and a multi-vitamin wouldn’t hurt either!
I wear my seat belt everyday, even though I have never been in a serious crash. Oh wait, we can’t use the “car comparison.”
I have a fire extinguisher in my home, even though I’ve never had a fire…. Oh wait, can’t use that one either.
Piss on them.
Same here. I’ve actually been in one major accident where the car was towed to the scrap yard, and the seat belt never even tightened on me, and both me and the wife (then Girlfriend) both didn’t even have a scratch or a bruise.
Unlike this idiot I recognize that as dumb fucking luck, and I still quite happily wear my seatbelt. If I was as dumb as her I’d tell everybody you don’t need seatbelts and they’re just propiganda from the auto industry!
Oh and I also smoked, and I have neither cancer, nor emphysema! Hey Smoking must be good for you!
I knew a guy in high school who pulled exactly the same schtick with car insurance. He drove around uninsured, insisted it was fine because he’d never gotten in an accident and didn’t feel unsafe, and he had exactly the same smarmy sense of superiority the antis get about guns: insurance was for suckers and scaredy-cats who couldn’t face driving without, well, insurance.
He was as _stupid_ as the antis, but at least he wasn’t trying to legally require everybody else share his stupidity.
“There has never been a moment in my life when having a gun on my person would have helped or saved me or my loved ones in any way……I was once choked to the point of neck bruising by an ex-con. ”
So apparently a .38 to the ribs at point blank range wouldn’t ‘have helped’ the ex-con decide not to continue (or even begin) choking her, nor ‘saved’ her from receiving the neck bruises from said choking.
“So apparently a .38 to the ribs at point blank range wouldn’t ‘have helped’ the ex-con decide not to continue (or even begin) choking her, nor ‘saved’ her from receiving the neck bruises from said choking.”
Obviously not. She’s a professional victim, after all.
To defend herself would destroy her self-image, just like how PETA Freaks would cease to be themselves if they ate a hamburger, or I would cease to be me if I shaved every day before work….
Oof. If my webpage was that disfunctional, I would probably compensate for it by taking my narrow world view and trying to force it on other people too…
I am very glad that the author has had the fortune of living a life wherein she has never needed a firearm, be it one she was carrying or one carried by a police officer. The same cannot be said for all people. To restrict those other people’s lives based on the remarkably small sample size of the author’s life is the height of intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and authoritarianism, and is simply unacceptable. Speaking to her article, it offers absolutely nothing more than the standard “fear, uncertainty, and doubt” being peddled by her fellow “gun control” extremists, and I am not at all sorry to point out that one person’s emotional response to another person’s exercising their Constitutionally-protected rights is an insufficient cause to abridge any of those rights.
… Unless, of course, she also wants to sign onto ignoring the 13th Amendment on the basis of the KKK’s bigotry… At least then she would be logically consistent.
Holy crap, this gun banner was once “strangled”, but since she wasn’t “strangled to death”, it’s all OK. And it wouldn’t have been a “gun death” so it wouldn’t be a big deal anyway.