February 15, 2008

  • Dear Faithful Reader - Me vote for Obama?  Come on, are ya serious? 

    Image: Rescue workers after Illinois college shooting

    Eric Sumberg / AP
    Rescue workers evacuate a victim of a shooting at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., on Thursday.
    Our topic of discussion today, boys and girls, is "Gun Free Zones".
    This past December my friend Lesa and I took a 2-day course to qualify for our Conceal Carry Weapon (CCW) permits.  Well, Terri! Why in the world would you want to carry a hand gun?? Don't you know that hand guns are dangerous?!! Yes, I sure do know that hand guns are dangerous, especially in the wrong hands. 
    The right hands would be those that have educated themselves in the use of a firearm and aren't afraid to have their name in a national database that would alert law enforcement officials to the fact that that person might be carrying.  Have no reason to fear registering their handguns so that it becomes a matter of public record that that person might be carrying.  Doesn't intend to go out and commit crimes and be found out because of all the above disclosure.
    The answer to the first question - why would I want to carry a hand gun?  Because I simply refuse to be a victim.  You may hurt me, you may even kill me, but believe me, I aint no easy win and I will not lay down.
    I know that there are truly stupid people on this earth.  But why do we keep finding them and electing them to public office to rule over us?  Gun free zones.  Please, do any of you think that means anything to the bad guy who want's to go into that zone with a gun?  Oh, yeah, excuse me, it DOES mean something to them...It means that they can go into that zone, shoot everyone they see, and not have to worry that someone will shoot back.
    How many times do we have to see college campus snapshots like the above?  How many times do we have to see every day people spending a day at the mall with their families shot and killed for no reason but that some nut case has a bone to pick and knows that the little "Gun Free Zone" sign on the door doesn't apply to them?  Personally, if I'm in a mall when the shooting starts, I'm looking for the person with a CCW who also ignored the GFZ sign and I'm hanging with them.  Behind them.  I'll reload for ya.
    If I still had a kid in grade school I'd want his teacher's carrying.  If you have a CCW you have sat in a class room for 11 hrs and learned everything there is to know about guns.  Then you've spent another 5 hrs out on a shooting range proving that you can shoot something other than your foot.  And then you submit to a background check.  And when that bad guy comes into your school and starts shooting your kids you could take him out.  Period.  Problem solved.
    Gun control.  What a joke.  All it controls is good folks being able to protect themselves and their loved ones from the folks who don't care what the laws are and are happy that you are a law abiding citizen without a gun.
    One of my friends who learned that I had taken the CCW course very seriously said to me "Terri, if you shot someone, even if they came into your home, you would agonize over that for the rest of your life".  Hmmm....You think?  I don't know for sure, because you never know until you've done it, but my feelings right now?  Come into my home with the intent to hurt me or my son and I will kill you dead and I will not lose one moments sleep behind it.  I'm not a "hard ass".  But I love life, and I love Nate, and if you're coming into my home to take either of those things away from me you do so at your own risk.  I would rather take your miserable life than to live the rest of mine knowing that I let you take the life of my son and now I'm paying for you to be housed for the rest of yours.
    Bad guys beware - I'm hell with a .38 
    How about you?

Comments (7)

  • I am so with you 100%. These idiots that want gun control are cutting their throats to spite their faces. What a crock! If I was a singe woman living in the city I'd carry so fast your head would spin. If they do gun control the only thing it will do is take the hunting away and the guns out of the hands of the good guys. No criminal is going to go through channels to get a gun. People who have no knowledge of a subject shouldn't be allowed to make the laws governing that issue.

  • Come on... really??? No Obama???

    I feel the same... hurt one of mine and I will bust a cap in your ass. <---- makes me sound gansta huh?? LOL

  • I agree, of course!  I don't have a gun though.  I've thought about it.  I just don't know if I would be emotionally in control if I ever had to decide whether or not to use it.  I have thought about it though. 

    No Obama?  Come on, we need change.  We need bigger government, more controls, bigger spending, less national security.  By the way, I have heard that Obama is waaaayyyy to the left of JFK.  The only thing they have in common is speech.   

    Really, I'm voting for McCain.  I think it's about time we had a white male in office. 

  • Maybe we need terrorist free zones. That would work!

  • I have a Ruger 44. cal Blackhawk, Ruger 10/22 Carbine, & Smith Wesson 12 ga. Police Special Shotgun...... unfortunately they are not in my hands due to legal matters..... but I can get my hands on them if need be......................I would not hesitate to use any of them, then suffer the consequences later........boomboom

  • Am I one of the Bad girls of the Bible? LOL

    I finally found you, couldnt get into Xanga for some reason, must be a Dingy thing!

    I love ya and miss ya.

    Dingy

    xxx

  • I agree with this post...I have angst over it but I agree with it.  :o )  Made sense, didn't it?  Guns are meant to kill.  If someone owns one, they have to face that reality. 

    Guns are not toys and I completely agree that EVERYONE who carries a gun should be put through MUCH training before they are allowed to own them.  Yes, I own a gun but it is at another home locked far away.  It would do me no good right now but I wouldn't hesitate to use it if I needed to (and had it in my possession).  Would I agonize over killing someone?  I am sure but how would I agonize if someone hurt my children.  My son was a student at Virginia Tech at the time of the shootings.  I would not have hestitated to kill that coward before he killed all of those innocent people.  I am sure many feel that way. 

    What gets me is the laws of killing home intruders.  They suck!  Intruders have more rights than the homeowners who kill or injure them. 

    It is so controversial...this gun thing.  The joke is that now, even the Constitution is being scruitinized over whether our forefathers really did intend for individuals to have the right to bear arms...go figure.  Gotta love our new age government.  I do not have much hope in it. I should have the right to defend myself and my children. 

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