@Robert Gentel,
Robert Gentel wrote:It's just as foolish to credit the tool with mythical properties to save your life like you invariably do.
When I acquired my first gun, my muscular strength was not great,
nor was I much of an expert on fighting.
I felt serene,
having emergency equipment that I coud use if the need arose.
(It did not arise for many decades.)
In 2005, after surgery, I was too weak even to walk.
I never re-gained 100% of my former strength.
I can walk for relatively shorter distances.
My guns might well lack "mythical properties"
but "that 's all there is and there is no more"
as far as personal defense is concerned.
I don t wanna go the way of Reginald Denny or Kitty Genovese,
who depended on the public to come to her support.
That did not work.
Additionally, I believe that the spirit of the times,
the public spirit, will be more individualistic
and less collectivistic if the citizens are all armed to the teeth.
Thay will tend to
de-emfasize government,
keeping it "weak, and starved and inoffensive." (Heinlein)
Robert Gentel wrote:To use your car analogy, you'd be the guy saying that any pedestrian that gets run over by a car "really should have been driving a car, you know."
I did not mean it in that sense.
I just mean that we shoud all be as well prepared as possible, within reason.
I mean it in the sense that we shoud all buckle our seatbelts
and we shoud all carry spare tires in our trunks, because u never know.
Years can pass between flat tires, but on any given day, u never know.
David
