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In reply to the discussion: 2 questions for those prone to calling gun owners "Delicate Flowers". [View all]Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)63. My guess would be most repsonding would have done the same given the same circumstances.
You have a right, and a responsibility, to protect yourself, and being prepared to protect yourself is part of that equation. Would relying on 911 really have been the best option for your protection? Of course not. Most of the respondents to this thread know that in the back of their minds, even if they argue otherwise.
Had they been there, say, with an elderly parent or a young child...there's no question what any reasonable person with a means of protection would have and should have done.
There is never any need to apologize or even justify exercising your rights and responsibilities. (Of course you clearly know this, but it may strike a chord of reality in one or two passing judgment from fantasyland).
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2 questions for those prone to calling gun owners "Delicate Flowers". [View all]
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2013
OP
"If you do not conflate regulation with confiscation, you are not who is meant."
Electric Monk
Feb 2013
#12
From all that is written, nobody has anything to worry about unless they are directly
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#4
I have absolutely no intention of ever carrying a concealed weapon.
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2013
#29
Keith Lawrence was two degrees of separation from anyone directly connected to Dorner's case.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#86
And how would things be different if both you and Mr. Dorner did not have access to guns?
baldguy
Feb 2013
#5
Tell me you don't think the world will ever enter the "no access to guns" phase.
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2013
#16
Show me any civilized country where the astonishing regularity of horrific civilian massacres
baldguy
Feb 2013
#27
The cops will bring ever increasing firepower to bear until you are dead or neutralized
Fumesucker
Feb 2013
#52
First, Hope you stay safe. Second, you had an excuse for your guns long before Dorner.
Hoyt
Feb 2013
#26
I bought on Red Ant Hill because my house has an unobstructed view of Big Bear Lake.
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2013
#33
There ARE plenty of responsible gun owners, until they are not. We see reports of this every
madinmaryland
Feb 2013
#64
Anti-gun zealots don't have facts or reality on their side, so they resort to lies and name-calling?
baldguy
Feb 2013
#73
The security of a free state includes the security of every individual and household in the state
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#89
Perhaps as a gun owner, I actually am a delicate flower. If so I would suppose that I am a rose. ...
spin
Feb 2013
#45
I don't have a problem with you owning a gun for self defense, but I think you endangered yourself
ecstatic
Feb 2013
#48
no, but she was the daughter of one and he threatened the families of them, bu t i live
JI7
Feb 2013
#61
My guess would be most repsonding would have done the same given the same circumstances.
Skip Intro
Feb 2013
#63
The paranoid delicate flowers can always find some outlandish and made up situation.
aandegoons
Feb 2013
#74
How does your "scenario" prevent registration of your favorite safe toy?
Jakes Progress
Feb 2013
#75
You are ignorant of our laws. Handguns are in fact registered in California.
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#88
Hell with these delicate flowers....as a responsible gun owner I demand my god given right for a
Katashi_itto
Feb 2013
#80
I put my Smith & Wesson .38 Special Revolver back in the safe last night...
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#87