How does this make you feel?

[yamahonkawazuki]

yup
its done that for me in AZ. cept it was open carry. i never drew it , nor threatened to, cause if i draw my gun, someone will get shot. i dont bluff it however can be drawn quickly if one knows how

[frankieG]

ya well once i get to "the big city" and more crime i may be changing my tune.

[lilwoody]

it makes me wonder why our country has gone down this path.  if guns were limited there would not be as many shootings, the statistics prove this.  countries with tight gun control have much fewer gun crimes.  the weapons belong in the hands of the police, military and some hunters.   carrying one in public in a country that is not at war on its own soil is, in my opinion, only making things worse.  were have you heard of someone stopping a crime with a gun? i don't read about them.  that's because it does not happen.

I have personally stopped 2 crimes by being armed. My father owned a mom and pop buisness and over the last 15 years it was opened he protected himself from strong arm robbery at least 10 times. 2 of the times there were more than 3 people trying to assault him and the presence of his firearm was all it took for them to leave in a very rapid manner.
There was a study funded by the Brady Campaign because they belived the same way you did. When the results came back they didn't release it because it said that there are 2.5 million crimes thwarted in the USA by the mere presences of a legally armed citizen. Less than 5% of these incidents were reported to the police and less the 1% of the defencive uses of a firearm is the gun discharged. What it boils down to is 99.9% of the scumbag thieves in our country are cowards. They will only pick on who they percieve as weak and when confronted with force of arms they flee.
Just for your information, the reason you don't see hardly any crime or percieve any threats in MAINE is the fact that you live in the MOST well armed state in the nation.

[Revere2]

This makes me feel sad. I know that if there weren't so many guns in society, we'd all be safer. We need to get the Global vision. We need to realize that each has value. Truly, only the police and military need guns. They'll know what to do. They'll protect us. They have been trained. I clench my hands and gnash my teeth and scream to the sky as to WHY all these people think that they need guns...
...guys and gals.........I can't continue with this, I am making myself wanna puke.............may God save us from all the "aforementioned thinking" idiots......................f%$k them with a rusty wood rasp

[yamahonkawazuki]

well, if we cannot have guns, can we have at least one military or one police there at all times?, yeah i know, illogical, BUT when confronted not much chance to get to phone

[Revere2]

"Stateside".............."Domestically"..................the Police/Military/Government are NOT our friends. If they are "friendly", they want "information" for the database. And...........they want "your" money. Via fines/taxes by any means necessary to give to the bastards that are supposed to be representing us..................to give away freely as they see fit.......in their 800 dollar suits (one for each day of the week), 150-300 dollar haircuts, and 1000 dollar alligator shoes. I just love to that that Northeastern Bastard Ted Kennedy on television waving a #2 pencil on camera while knowing he has a 300 dollar Mont Blanc in his suit side pocket. We've got problems.

[Myotis]

I live in Australia and found the article posted claimiing that Gun control leads to more crime interesting to say the least. I know any author can use stats to their adavantage so I did a quick five minute search about guns and homicide the following two articles show that in America the rates of homicide are about 6 times the rate that we see here in Australia!

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/hmrt.htm
http://www.aic.gov.au/research/homicide/stats/

Don't tell me that gun control doesn't work...

Be good
I'li leave you with htis quote
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.  ~Wayne Dyer

[97gs500e]

This makes me feel sad. I know that if there weren't so many guns in society, we'd all be safer. We need to get the Global vision. We need to realize that each has value. Truly, only the police and military need guns. They'll know what to do. They'll protect us. They have been trained. I clench my hands and gnash my teeth and scream to the sky as to WHY all these people think that they need guns...
...guys and gals.........I can't continue with this, I am making myself wanna puke.............may God save us from all the "aforementioned thinking" idiots......................f%$k them with a rusty wood rasp

and the downward spiral to Socialism begins.   

[Myotis]

Is it downward???

[yamahonkawazuki]

Is it not? 
tell you what myotis, can you name me a few countries where socialism OR communism has succeeeded.? im willing to read if your willing to reply