Grandpa and guns

[desertrat]

My Grandpa Said to Me:

"Son, there comes a time in every man's life when he stops bustin'
knuckles, and usually it's when he becomes too old to take an ass-whoopin'.

I don't carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep myself 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'd like 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 cannot be everywhere, and I mean no disrespect. Police cannot
totally protect you from crime; they investigate the crime after it happens and then
call someone in to clean up the mess, like the funeral home or the county
prosecutor.


Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take
an ass-whoopin'.

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[rack'm]

 

[Dutch6]

 

[JimW711]

My father told me years ago that his father told him that when it came to carrying a gun, it was better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

 

[Pushrod]

Excellent!!

 

[theArtistFormerlyKnownAs]

Well said.