I just had to ask this question due to Deligeez's response to my last question. Apparently he/she feels my choosing to own firearms and accepting the responsibility that goes along with that somehow makes me a coward. Do you agree/disagree and why?
2007-03-17 16:56:24 · 25 answers · asked by nick_nunya2003 3 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
How does taking responsibility for your own protection make you cowardly?? Deligeez must be dumb.
2007-03-18 05:59:42 · answer #1 · answered by Bobby 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If wanting to have the best chance at defending yourself and your family against the evil people that exist everywhere in this world makes you a coward, then yes. Personally, I disagree. I think owning firearms is a responsibility that most people should handle. I think firearms are a necessary aspect of our lives. Regardless of when you have to use them, be it in self defense or in hunting, doing so does not make you a coward. With hunting, instead of using amazing speed or venom or size to kill our prey, humans use our intellect. We do this by building a weapon that allows us a greater chance of killing our game. There is nothing cowardly about this. Don't listen to these type of people, they are ignorant.
2007-03-19 01:44:21 · answer #2 · answered by Wildernessguy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, the biggest and strongest are going to kick our butts, huh? That's the way wrong answer. The constitution says,"All men are created equal" meaning that a rich man can't buy enough armour to stop a lead bullet from a poor boy's rifle. That's where the quote came from, the invention of the lead bullet. No need to throw down your guns to fight on the level of those without that right, that's what prisons are for. Well, gee, those police are just picking on those tough guys who aren't cowards like us, huh?
Fact is, the source of this kind of crap isn't worth your time of day, they are not interested in conserving your rights or heritage. And probably, they don't have the right to purchase firearms because picking a fight is assault, a crime. What title does that earn them?
2007-03-18 01:15:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I own quite a few guns, and I don't feel like a coward for owning them. It's not the fact that I own the guns that makes me not feel like a coward, it's just the way I was raised.
2007-03-18 20:55:33 · answer #4 · answered by esugrad97 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are the thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines cowards? They carry guns in defense of our country.
Are the MILLIONS of Americans who carry and own guns cowards? They carry and use these in defense of their family and property.
The answer is no in both cases.
You can be the best UFC, mixed-martial arts, baddest hand to hand combat expert in the world. However, you would not stand a chance against a mugger standing 7 feet away with a Saturday Night Special. However, the fat middle aged guy with a concealed .38 special would stand a good chance of surviving.
2007-03-18 09:01:21 · answer #5 · answered by The Big Shot 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
George Washington owned a gun. Was he a coward?
I don't know this for sure, but i would bet money that Micheal Jackson owns no firearms. So, the more imortant question is whether non-gunowners are really just closet child molester/rapists.
2007-03-18 07:10:38 · answer #6 · answered by browning_1911 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I disagree with Deligeez. That logic would also say I am lazy for having a car to get to work, it is only 20 miles from here to home. The internet is a wornderful place. Lots of good information just floating around out here. Thing is you don't have to pass a test to get on here so we have to weed out the dumbazzes and trolls on our own. Best of luck and don't let them get you down. If some one is anti gun, why are they on here? I don't go to the buttlove'n gay boards and stir up trouble. They were just try'n to get you flustered, ignore them, that makes a troll mader than anything.
Dave
2007-03-18 21:07:31 · answer #7 · answered by david t 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. Remember what they said about Col. Sam Colt's invention: "...made all men equal..."
Seems to me it is someone else who is afraid accept the responsibility of being armed to defend himself and those he loves. In the Sixties I met a man (I use the term loosely) who declared to me that he could never take up arms and kill anyone. Not in self-defense nor in defense of those he loved. I asked him even to defend his own mother from a fate worse than death. And he said he could not. I left it at that. Today I would ask him if he would simply sit through the ordeal of watching his own mother go through that when all he had to do was pick up a gun and defend her. I can't understand that kind of reasoning.
Oh well, I guess I'm just a... Savage. LOL!
H
2007-03-18 08:02:42 · answer #8 · answered by H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's cowardly is being afraid of yourself or your fellow citizens owning weapons.
What's cowardly is wanting someone else, like the government, to releive you of all your responsibilites, rights, and freedoms in exchange for a secure cozy life.
What's cowardly is insisting that any attempts of self-reliance and self-sufficiency are foolish and your problems should be handled by the proper "authorities".
But there is nothing cowardly about guns or any weapons for that matter. They are simply tools. And, they have been used throughout history by countless soldiers, explorers, hunters, settlers, ranchers, and lawmen that you could hardly call cowardly.
2007-03-18 05:45:24 · answer #9 · answered by sterling 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
People like that are simply....well....simple minded and un-educated. Be a responsible firearms owners and have as many as you wish. Owning one has nothing to do with being a coward.
2007-03-18 00:59:21 · answer #10 · answered by tackelberry88 3 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Ever since I was 7 I have owned weapons.
For as far back as I can remember it has always be about shooting the smaller group or achieving the higher score.
I was not competing with others, I was pushing my self to be the best I could be with any weapon.
This is a challenge that has many rewards.
My weapons were not purchased for self defense reasons only.
I did not purchase my weapons because I was afraid.
I have good collection of weapons in many styles and forms.
I have rifles, pistols, muzzleloaders, bows and many sharp knives.
I was a single parent and raised my some the same way as I was raised.
From age 2 he has had weapons, at age 5 I put him on a shooting bench and started his formal training with weapons.
He knew he would be punished if he ever touched them with out me right their.
At age 10 I started to let him hunt on his own, he had hunted with me from the time he was 8 years old.
One day at work I was asked by some woman where my son stayed while I was at work.
I told them I lived out in the country my son was 14 and ever since he was 12 he asked to stay at home from school or on weekends, he was a well behaves young man that I had faith in.
There by he was at home now alone.
The one woman said what if some one broke in to the house while he was alone.
I told her the biggest problem my son will have in such a situation was to determine which of his weapons to use to defend him self, rifles, pistols, shotguns or bow and he may take turns with all of them.
That if the intruder can make it past my 6 pet Wolves that have full run of my enclosed yard.
Like I told them, I pity the Fool that makes that mistake.
It’s not about fear, it’s about the sport and the time you spend with you children teaching them.
Do not concern your self with the murmurings of a Fool.
They are trying to gain control of you and you action by a foolish attempt at peer pressure.
It does not matter what they thank of you, or what I thank of you.
The only thing that should matter is what do you thank of “your self”.
We cant please every body, so we should strive to be pleased with our selves.
I own weapons because I wont to.
And I do pity the Fool that tries any form of depredation on me or my love ones.
That my opinion.
D58
2007-03-18 00:41:05 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 0⤋