I got this in my email today, sounds like good solid thinking to me.
An old man said to me son, 'there comes a time in every mans life when
he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's when
he becomes too old to take an ass whupin'.
I don't carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don't carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this
world can be a scary place.
I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world. I don't carry
a gun because I'm evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to
see the evil in the world. I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
I don't carry a gun because I'm angry.
I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating
myself for failing to be prepared. I don't carry a gun because I want to
shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my
bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon. I don't carry a
gun because I'm a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven,
I want to be a cowboy. I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I
carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones
they love.
I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because
unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I AM inadequate. I don't carry a gun
because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who
make it meaningful to me. Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free
citizens must protect themselves. Police do not protect you from crime, they
usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to
clean up the mess.
Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and
too old to take an ass whupin' !!