survivalshop Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Here's a study that's worth reading , even the reporter that wrote about it ,has a hard time believing it . I like the part about caring guns outside the home . Does that include Hunting <laughs> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/gun-owners-impulsive-angry-behavior_b_7054146.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolndie7 Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 such a bunch of BS. Ive always found it exactly the opposite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Microgunner Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 What a surprise, anti-gun lies. I also believe armed people are more likely to avoid a fight, the weight on your hip constantly reminding you of the seriousness of conflict. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue109 Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 What a surprise, anti-gun lies. I also believe armed people are more likely to avoid a fight, the weight on your hip constantly reminding you of the seriousness of conflict. truth. I'm a very confrontational person, and sometimes I hate having to walk away from a potentially entertaining situation because I am carrying. but I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 What a surprise, anti-gun lies. I also believe armed people are more likely to avoid a fight, the weight on your hip constantly reminding you of the seriousness of conflict. An armed scocity is a polite scocity Don't even have to read the article just seeing "huffington post" in the link leads me to belive it's completely BS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmackc Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 An armed scocity is a polite scocity Don't even have to read the article just seeing "huffington post" in the link leads me to belive it's completely BS AMEN!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 An armed scocity is a polite scocity Don't even have to read the article just seeing "huffington post" in the link leads me to belive it's completely BS But they did an article bashing Hillary! Does not compute... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmackc Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 A lot of people don't like Hillary, even ultra left wingers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 An armed society is a polite society Yep, Amen. I know I've posted this before, but it belongs in this thread, too. “The Gun Is Civilization” By Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret) Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it. In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some. When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender. There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat – it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly. Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable. When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation… And that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act. By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Microgunner Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Amen, always a good read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigP623 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 That article gave me a good laugh. Thank you I needed that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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