Why I Carry

[ronwill]

Received in email and is dead on. Did some editing.

Why Carry a Gun Today

My old grandpa said to me son, 'there comes a time in every mans life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's when he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin'.

I don't carry a gun to kill people.

I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don't carry a gun to scare people.

I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.

I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don't carry a gun because I'm evil.

I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the
world.

I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.

I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don't carry a gun because I'm angry.

I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life
hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.

I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and
not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.

I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man.

I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate.

I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am
inadequate.

I don't carry a gun because I love it.

I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it
meaningful to me.

The police can't be everywhere at once.

Free citizens must protect themselves.

Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to
take an ass whoopin' !!

[DefensiveCarry.com]

[Rcher]

Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to
take an ass whoopin' !!

My sentiments exactly. Good words to live by.

[Paco]

I'll have to remember some of those for when I am asked "Why in the World would you carry one of those things?" The response of because I can't carry a cop on my belt just wouldn't go over real well.