I just finished making my tour of the anti-gun websites. Not that I like to visit them, but I want to see the kind of garbage they are spewing and come up with good answers to their arguments.
I usually finish up my anti-gun tour, with a tour of the pro-gun sites, to lift my spirits and get a little taste of sanity. I read some stories where guns saved lives and stopped crime and I feel good again.
However, I realized something on my circuit through the web today.
On the anti-gun web sites they give no first hand stories or examples of people who stopped or deterred a crime by NOT having a gun.
They spew their propaganda, but they give you no examples of what to do if you feel threatened (other than, of course, to call 911).
This morning my husband woke up and turned over to hold me before we had to get up for work and as he slid his hand under my pillow he hit my .45 knocking it off the bed and causing it to crash on the floor.
"You never sleep with your gun under your pillow when I'm home," he said, "What's up?"
"Oh," I said, "Sorry. Around one-thirty this morning I woke to some weird noises. It sounded like someone or something was picking at the screen door. I knew it was probably the cats, but with the noise from the fans and everything I wasn't sure. It sounded too loud to just be the cats. I also didn't want to get up and go look, and I just couldn't stay awake. My eyes kept closing so I just reached over, grabbed my gun and put it under my pillow so that if something came of it I wouldn't have to reach far, and nothing short of a gunshot would wake you anyway."
"True," he said as he gave me a kiss and started digging under the bed to retrieve my gun for me satisfied that my reasoning was justified.
A few weeks ago we got to witness a domestic disturbance in the next apartment building and last night, before we went to bed we saw the police had been called in to that building. After walking out of the building and into the sound of shots being fired, and the screaming and sirens we hear often around here, it's not a far stretch to believe a breakin could happen here.
With that gun in my hand, and under my pillow, as paranoid as it sounds I fell fast asleep and slept like a baby.
Only once did I startle awake when I felt aggressive pressure to my neck.
My eyes flew open and my hand was already on my gun, but before I even moved it from beneath my pillow I saw the silhouette of a furry tail bounce across the bed, and out the bedroom door. Darn cat scared me half to death, but I smiled at it's furry enthusiasm as I fell back into a deep sleep after my heart rate came down.
Today, after reading through everything on both the pro and anti sites, I wonder how the anti-gunners sleep when they hear strange noises or are awakened in the dead of night by little paws that in the shroud of sleep can be so easily mistaken for fingers.
What gives them comfort when they are afraid? When they hear a gunshot out their window, what do they grab for their defense? The phone? A baseball bat?
Had one of them been in my place last night would she have been able to sleep as soundly and rest as peacefully?
I wish I could hear their logical answer to this. I wish they could tell me what I could do to know I was safer without my gun last night, or any night for that matter.
Somehow I must have missed that section of their website.
I usually finish up my anti-gun tour, with a tour of the pro-gun sites, to lift my spirits and get a little taste of sanity. I read some stories where guns saved lives and stopped crime and I feel good again.
However, I realized something on my circuit through the web today.
On the anti-gun web sites they give no first hand stories or examples of people who stopped or deterred a crime by NOT having a gun.
They spew their propaganda, but they give you no examples of what to do if you feel threatened (other than, of course, to call 911).
This morning my husband woke up and turned over to hold me before we had to get up for work and as he slid his hand under my pillow he hit my .45 knocking it off the bed and causing it to crash on the floor.
"You never sleep with your gun under your pillow when I'm home," he said, "What's up?"
"Oh," I said, "Sorry. Around one-thirty this morning I woke to some weird noises. It sounded like someone or something was picking at the screen door. I knew it was probably the cats, but with the noise from the fans and everything I wasn't sure. It sounded too loud to just be the cats. I also didn't want to get up and go look, and I just couldn't stay awake. My eyes kept closing so I just reached over, grabbed my gun and put it under my pillow so that if something came of it I wouldn't have to reach far, and nothing short of a gunshot would wake you anyway."
"True," he said as he gave me a kiss and started digging under the bed to retrieve my gun for me satisfied that my reasoning was justified.
A few weeks ago we got to witness a domestic disturbance in the next apartment building and last night, before we went to bed we saw the police had been called in to that building. After walking out of the building and into the sound of shots being fired, and the screaming and sirens we hear often around here, it's not a far stretch to believe a breakin could happen here.
With that gun in my hand, and under my pillow, as paranoid as it sounds I fell fast asleep and slept like a baby.
Only once did I startle awake when I felt aggressive pressure to my neck.
My eyes flew open and my hand was already on my gun, but before I even moved it from beneath my pillow I saw the silhouette of a furry tail bounce across the bed, and out the bedroom door. Darn cat scared me half to death, but I smiled at it's furry enthusiasm as I fell back into a deep sleep after my heart rate came down.
Today, after reading through everything on both the pro and anti sites, I wonder how the anti-gunners sleep when they hear strange noises or are awakened in the dead of night by little paws that in the shroud of sleep can be so easily mistaken for fingers.
What gives them comfort when they are afraid? When they hear a gunshot out their window, what do they grab for their defense? The phone? A baseball bat?
Had one of them been in my place last night would she have been able to sleep as soundly and rest as peacefully?
I wish I could hear their logical answer to this. I wish they could tell me what I could do to know I was safer without my gun last night, or any night for that matter.
Somehow I must have missed that section of their website.