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It is just common sense. Maybe thirty or forty years ago, yeah, it would be overreacting. But what you are doing now is what most of us are doing, reacting TO A VERY REAL THREAT that was not there years ago.
I always carry. If I go out to get a quart of milk, I carry. I never ever say to myself well I can leave it home, it is a sunny day, I am on Cape Cod, and tourist season is about to begin and all is rosy. No. I carry in church on Sundays. I carry every single time I leave the house. Wallet, comb, car keys, sunglasses, gun.
Numerically, not percentage of population, numerically, there are more savages out there today than at any time in United States history. There is no doubt about that and this cannot be disputed. Numbers-wise. Therefore, this has caused us to be not only vigilant but hypervigilant. But the thing is, it is based on reality, whereas paranoia is not. This ain't no dream, the numbers of criminals out there. Being prepared for them is sensible nowadays.
Fifty years ago, it would not have been necessary. Today it is. Preparedness just might save your life.
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Surrounded and outnumbered, Marine Col Lewis Puller: "Good! We finally got 'em where we want 'em!" (Korea, 1950)
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Right is Wrong and Wrong is Right.
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Socrates : "Knowledge is knowing that we know nothing".
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