I have, but its because of where I live.
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I will gift a water bottle to anyone named "Mike D" who posts a picture of their gun within the next five minutes.
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I have always been of the opinion that if you cannot solve a violent/dangerous situation with six or less bullets, it is vanishingly unlikely that anything will materially change in your favour if you had more.
Ive considered conceal carry.
People would say my .38 special with 6 rounds isn't enough. If six rounds ain't enough to create an opening for me to run like a little bitch, shits really hit the fan and more bullets isn't gonna solve it.
I just want to run away.
My statement has two interpretations, yours is the one that most people just don’t cotton onto.
Honestly, “running away” is the best possible solution in most any conflict. And when the bullets are flying, you want your opponent to duck and cover just long enough for you to skedaddle and get out of range or into an escape route out of the line of fire. Hell, in that circumstance blanks would be sufficient to get that job done.
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You don't know that!! Just think how tyrannical the USA would be if its citizens WEREN'T armed!!!
Edit: I hate that I have to say this was ironic.
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They say every gun enthusiast has their scenario they're planning for: home invasion, civil war, post apocalypse/disaster, mass shooting event, mugging, etc. When I think about what my scenario might be there isn't a single one where I don't end up dead, with or without a weapon. There is no number of weapons or amount of ammunition that would change that for me.
I struggle with that reality when I think about my own relationship with guns, but I can't help thinking that "prepared" is better than "helpless", even if the outcome is the same.
outside of the movies, there is RARELY (as in astronomically small percentage) one... the problem is that most Muricans live in a fictional reality with the reasoning capacity of a teen boy