Thoughts on carrying.....
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> I don't carry a gun to kill people.
> I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
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> I don't carry a gun to scare people.
> I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.
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> I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.
> I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
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> 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.
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> I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.
> I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
> I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am
inadequate.
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> 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.
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> Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves.
> Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the
> crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.
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> Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to
take
> an ass kickin'.
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> "Be who you are and say what you feel....Because those that
matter....don't
> mind...And those that mind....don't matter. "

Nicely put. I will have to e-mail that to a few people I know.