"Balanced View" wrote in message
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Look mate, if you honestly feel there is a threat where virtually no
threat exists, you're simply paranoid.
According to the CDC you are at far greater risk of being killed by
eating at McDonalds.

The only thing is there are threats out there.

There are more signifigant threats out there than being shot

True.

Do or would you let your small child wonder around a major shopping
center? Or are you too paranoid? There is very little threat but there
is enough threat that most people won't do it.

No, because common sense tells us kids need supervision for any number of
reasons

So you keep an eye on your kids at all times? Isn't that a little paranoid?


In most cases there is not enough threat to feel the need to carry a
weapon but there is always a threat out there.

Yeah sure, birds **** on your car, it might rain etc...... But very few
require the need of a gun to prevent.

A firearm is like a seatbelt, you'll probably never need one but when you do
need it you need it quickly or you get hurt.


Example, if you ride the train to and from work every day the odds are
you'll never face a life threatening situation.

Glad you agree with that.

But there is always that chance the car on your train is the one that
some mentally ill person decides that the voices in his head is coming
from and if he kills every one in that car with a machete.

About as much chance of that happening as getting eaten by a mutant
Crocodile from the sewers.

Or getting blown up on the 'tube' or gassed on the subway? Small odds but
it has happened.


Even if you are in that car the odds are that you will not be one of the
first people attacked, meaning you will have a chance to run. For most
people these odds are enough, for others they like having even more odds
on their side and they carry a weapon. That weapon may be in the form of
themselves via martial arts training, pepper spray, a stun gun or a
firearm.

If you think about threats like that that everyday you are paranoid

Let's see: I wear a helmet when I ride my motorcycle; I wear a seatbelt when
I drive; I have smoke alarms in my house; I unplug my saw when I replace the
blade; when I check into a hotel room I make sure I know where the fire
exits are. Paranoid or just being safe?


I don't know a person who has needed to use any concealed weapon to
protect themselves. But I know many who carry them.


Paranoid friends as well?

Lots of cops and ex-cops.


As I have said before just having a weapon saved my sister from being, at
the least, raped. I don't consider the weapon being

The odds are anything can happen anywhere, but for the average person to
feel the need to carry a gun everyday,
it is not a rational act.

But not for being 'irrational' my sister would have been a rape victim.
Which would you rather YOUR sister be? FYI; this wasn't in a darken parking
lot in some 'crime infested' major city slum area.