We're always hearing gun owners tell us they are the most wonderful law-abiding people in the world--wouldn't hurt a fly. Take a listen to the friends and family of violent offenders--their always talking about how good they were prior to shooting somebody. Everybody is law-abiding until they aren't. The problem with gun ownership is that there are MILLIONS of people in this country with mental health issues of one kind or another--alcohol or drug issues, anger problems; they suffer from depression or other mental problems. Somebody with a gun blows his top and people are dead. Let's fact it: the self-defense argument is a NRA-perpetuated myth, with lots of fake NRA numbers about all the thousands--or is it hundreds of thousands--of supposed crimes that are thwarted by men in white hats (driving trucks, too, I presume) with a gun. It's 99 percent nonsense. Gun owners want to assure everybody that there's nothing to worry about because they are responsible--why, the very fact that they own a gun makes them so! Please. The NRA is in the business of helping gun makers peddle guns, and it has done so by peddling macho, self-defense tales to sheriff-wannabes.
one thing i've determined, you don't need a gun.
but as a guy that owns guns and has driven a truck, i appreciate your opinion. i disagree with all of it, but that's what it's all about i guess.
taking the NRA angle away, of which i'm not a member, i have been in a situation where i've had guns brandished and pulled on me, for no other reason that being in the wrong place, wrong time.
i didn't have a gun then, nor did anyone i was with. and i'm not going to tell you i wish we had. to the contrary, i'm absolutely convinced that had anyone in my party brandished a weapon, that whole situation would have gotten really ugly, really fast.
that said, i know others who have and it was a good thing that they did, as they likely prevented something really bad from happening. but that's just it. you prevented something from possibly happening. you don't know that it would.
sometimes, i think some would rather the bad thing happen, so we can pick it part later, vs. looking at what might happened had their not been a gun toting red neck there to save the day.
remember the terrorist attack in Paris? the one night club, the terrorists (2 of them) were in that building killing people for nearly 2 hours before an armed response did anything.
you're telling me that had someone, anyone, in that club would have had a gun, that would have lasted 2 hours, and that many people would have been ultimately killed? i don't know. i'm sure it would have been tragic, regardless. i just have to think had there been any type of armed response in the building, private citizen or otherwise, it wouldn't have lasted as long as it did.
bottom line, it's all situational. and the sole reason why you can't blanket everyone that owns a gun with your narrow stereotypical descriptions.
back to the topic....do gun owners need to be tailgaiting and going to football games armed?
prolly not. situationally, someone's going to do something stupid, sometime.
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