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Question of the Day: Does Gun Ownership Make You *Less* Confrontational?
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... "Depending on my mood in the mornings, I’ll either listen to XM radio for morning show idiot-free music or NPR. Yeah, I know. Anyway, as luck would have it this morning was a NPR day. They have a long-running a series called StoryCorps. It’s a collection of short three- to five-minute personal stories as filler between the local and national news. I was getting ready to hop out of the truck when the story titled 'The Day One Man Decided To Give Up His Gun' came on. I was compelled to stop and listen. . ." ... |
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Millwright66
(4/27/2015)
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Anyone that has taken a CCW course and some realistic range training is, IMNSHO, far more likely to avoid "confrontation" - except - as the last resort. Good CCW courses inculcate the the reality "you own every bullet you fire", mantra. They stress "situational awareness" because the best gunfight is the one you avoid.
But when its SHTF time, they also inculcate the "warrior mentality", where abrupt, violent, decisive actions can decide the outcome in your favor. And, more importantly, they'll give you some direction in how to deal with the post-shooting incident. |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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