Again, with the 'thou shall not offend' crap, and no, it's not great because it favors our side this time.
I disagree. This isn't like lefties shopping for offense or seeing offense where none exists...this is weenie namby pamby's wetting themselves just at the thought of people being allowed to carry in their classrooms and on their grounds...as far as I know none of the armed are flashing their weapons or issuing warnings...and besides people being fearful of others where there is no cause is none of my concern...if they are wetting themselves that's their problem...sure I'll point at it and laugh and make sport of it...but I could care less why they are wetting themselves...
Maybe they shouldn't be so judgmental and thinking the worst of everybody and profiling people they don't know anything about?
No offense but that's exactly what they say about us and our concerns about islam.
We claim that "Not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslim". Because it is pithy but an overly broad statement the left comes back with someone like the South Carolina Church murderer to "prove us wrong". Of course they're not proving anything except that the claim is inexact.
The feeeeeeling behind the left's concerns on guns is that
anyone who carries isn't just a potential terrorist, but rather is an
inevitable terrorist. Sooner or later you're gonna whip it out and start mowing people down.
Which is the more realistic claim? I would submit that neither one is truly defensible. Neither one stands up to close scrutiny. Most of the school shootings have been white kids. The unibomber and the Oklahoma City bomber were white guys. The Beltway snipers were muslim, but they never claimed that they killed in the name of islam. A literal reading of the statistics disproves the "all terrorists are muslim" part of the claim.
Likewise, there are some 80 million gun owners in America alone. We own a couple of hundred million firearms. If spree killings were inevitable we would be awash in blood right now. Yes, gun-related deaths are too high, but look at who is committing most of those gun crimes. I read a new story about an armed robbery of a liquor store, noted that the perps were white and remarked that it was oddly comforting to know that there are still some whites committing crime.
A comment that I often leave at stories about campus-carry reveals that the entire time I was on campus I was concealed-carry. I was sitting (with my gun) right next to the very same pinheads that would imprison or even execute me for my "crime" and they never knew. The whole time they were blissful in their ignorance of their surroundings - but I wasn't. I ignored their rules because my safety is more important then their feeeeeeeelings.
The responses are invariably angry and unhinged.
"You should be locked up!" is common. Why, because I took personal responsibility to protect myself and those around me?
"It's people like you that are the reason that we have to have metal detectors and x-rays and cops everywhere!" No, it is people like you who allow criminals to wander around and commit crimes with impunity that constitute the necessity for such intrusions.
"You should be shot!" Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
I will continue to carry until my last day and hope that y'all do too.
