A phrase that lots of gun owners use that just pisses me off..

[Pathfinder]

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 this world.
I don't carry a gun because I am evil. I carry a gun because I've 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 my sex organs are too small. I carry a gun because I want to continue to use those sex organs for the purpose they were intended for a good long time to come.
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 to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because a real man knows how to take care and protect their property, themselves and the ones they love.
I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing 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.
I don't carry a gun to shoot to kill someone. I carry a gun and would shoot as necessary to stay alive. If the assailant dies as a result of a desire to harm me, it's no loss to society.
Anonymous

I think this about sums up my position there Blackjack. And I will state, many members of this forum (as you are a guest), agree with these positions. 

Previous quote:
Several have mentioned that they CCW for protection. I'd like to ask, protection from what? Do you live in such a high crime area that the LEO's can't maintain the peace?

Another member on this forum also summed this silly question : When life or death comes down to seconds, the Police are MINUTES AWAY.  The Kool-Aid is choking me.

So well put, I cut and pasted it into a Word document and printed it in big letters - for the wall and for those in my family who think that my guns are foolishness and I have too many.

[Rastus]

its a toss up between
my merkel 2016
my parker D grade 16

honarble mention...

One of my 1911s
nylon 66
one of my 1100s.

Merkel and Parker....too rich for my blood.  I always wanted one of those Nylon 66's...in Apache Black.  Couldn't afford one as a kid...after I grew up....a long time after I grew up...when I finally remembered wanting one they had become popular again.  I'll get one one day....I'm just going to have to be able to hold it and see it before I buy it.  I don't want to spend top $ on one that is junked out.  1100's are cool, got one in 20 gauge...have you gotten to see one of the new 105 CTI's...I've been looking but have yet to see one.

[Hazcat]

Rastus,

I have a Nylon 66.  Mohwak brown, picked it up for 180 out the door about a year ago.  FUN shooter!

[Rastus]

Rastus,

I have a Nylon 66.  Mohwak brown, picked it up for 180 out the door about a year ago.  FUN shooter!

Do the Nylon 66's run Stingers?  Just wondering about spring problem, etc?

[Hazcat]

Well I've run Federal and CCI and Remington though it with no problems.

Remember if you get one do not use oil on it (nylon parts) a dry lube like graphite works best (Remington makes a dri lube product).

[Sponsor]

[TAB]

My nylon 66 has atleast 100k rounds thru it, I've only had to clean it a few times.  It eats every thing other then sub sonic and CB caps.

The merkel I traded, work for the gun.  The parker was $1500 8 years ago,  back in the days when I was working for some one else making 3x what I do now...  Anyone that says running a company will make you rich... has never done it.

[Rastus]

One thing is for sure, running a company is a lot of hard work. 

[pioneer]

This line really ticks me off.   Not only is is breaking the law, but its also violating another persons rights( as a prop owner).  Lots of us gun owners are all about "our" rights, maybe we need to pull our head from are butts and realize that other people have rights too.  i won't even get into the whole breaking the law aspect.

What really ticks me off, is someone who thinks that just because we don't think the way he does, our heads must be up our butts.  Which is the greater evil, someone who has been vetted by the FBI, state and local police exercising their constitutional rights, or some doped up career felon there to commit yet another felony?   

[TAB]

What really ticks me off, is someone who thinks that just because we don't think the way he does, our heads must be up our butts.  Which is the greater evil, someone who has been vetted by the FBI, state and local police exercising their constitutional rights, or some doped up career felon there to commit yet another felony?   

Did I ever say that to anyone in this thread?  I know others did.

the greater evil is some one knowingly and willingly breaking law in the name of selfishness.

[ericire12]

Did I ever say that to anyone in this thread?  I know others did.

the greater evil is some one knowingly and willingly breaking law in the name of selfishness.

Noooooooooooo.... The greater evil is perpetrated by those criminals that are going into schools, malls, colleges, churches, you name it and shooting up people by the dozen, and by those legislators that have allowed it to happen.

Two perfect examples: 1. Virginia Tech (Gun free zone where the guy was literally shooting fish in a barrel)    2. That church in Colorado (Gun man stop dead in his tracks by an armed member of the church who saved countless lives by engaging the guy as soon as he pulled out his gun and started firing).