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Just awesome.

As for the old trope that a gun actually makes you less safe and they make shoot yourself or something you love, that is simply untrue. It’s an old wives’ tale that doesn’t hold up to the data. I know it is cherished Pablum from the left, but it still is not at all true. What nonsense! Look at the freakin’ stats!

I was once asked why I posted all the stuff about guns helping people, when it is common that people shoot their own kids or themselves if they have a gun in the home. I said “Uh, because is not true?” Yeah, that’s why… The questionner was a victim of “the old Jedi mind trick.” Still might be, but I sure hope not.

this with your puny laws. Don’t be confused about how big this is. You may stop law-abiding people, but you certainly won’t stop criminals. As I read somewhere, Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more people than my gun. The issue is personal morality, not laws. I think that leftists are often confused about that. As they are fond of saying, you can’t legislate morality.

get cheaper and better. It’s over, gun controllers. It’s only a matter of time. Sure, what we have now is rather primitive, but that will change. Sooner or later, it all boils down to personal morality, and you can’t legislate that.

You don’t need a gun any more than you need a 7-quart pressure cooker! I mean, who makes 7 quarts of stew, anyway? Sheesh, let’s be reasonable, here! What kind of a nut needs a kitchen appliance like that? It’s not like you need a Vitamix, either–a regular blender will do just fine almost all of the time.

Don’t do it just for you, do it for the ones that you love…

protect yourself from the totally unexpected. Carrying concealed is like wearing a seat belt or having life insurance. You never know when you will need it, and maybe you will never. But my buddy wearing a seat belt doesn’t make it so I don’t have to. And my buddy’s life insurance will probably do my family no good.

Every now and again you hear someone (unthinking) say, “Well they are crazy. They will attack no matter what.” Yet this guy dropped the knife as soon as someone confronted him with a gun. Even a crazy person knows if it’s warm or cold outside… If somehow they don’t, I’m still protected. I’m trying to find the downside.

Let’s see, safe, training, decent judgment. Nope, it’s all there!

If this guy had known that two thirds of the people would be armed, and that he would be shot dead shortly after first brandishing the knife (a thought experiment), he would never have done this. If you care about the well-being of others, you are for concealed carry. If you want people to get hurt, you are a gun controller.

quote.We can quibble and do all sorts of mental and moral acrobatics, but when the rubber hits the road, you have to make a command decision. Just stand up and make your call!

make you MORE safe?  Most Americans think so. And it almost for sure is true.

That’s not the mantra of the far left, with their mainstream media lackeys and various trained monkeys. They will tell you until they are blue in the face (no pun intended) that a gun makes you less safe. I strongly doubt it. it’s probably just one more piece of “conventional wisdom” that is not true. It’s clear on its face that it is not true. You have to suspend disbelief in order to be a lefty. This is obvious, for a number of reasons.