07-16-2016, 07:27 AM
(07-15-2016, 05:14 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Why do you feel the need to be armed if not the fear of needing your firearm? How reasonable is it to assume you will need your firearm in your everyday life? I know it is not reasonable to assume such a thing in mine. Thus it would be irrational for me to fear that I would need a firearm in my daily life.
Bravery is not necessarily the absence of fear, but overcoming it. That being said, it would not be irrational to have fear of something happening if you displayed large sums of cash in a high crime area. It is, however, irrational for me to fear needing my firearm while grocery shopping at my usual store, going to church, going out to dinner at my favorite restaurant, etc.
Ever hear the expression "I would rather have something and never need it, than need it and not have it."?
Pretty much the same principle. I have been in situations where I was glad to have my firearm, of course that was when I was deployed and we were ambushed.
In my everyday life, no, I have not had the need. However remember Luby's, remember the testimony of one Suzanna Gratia Hupp? Yeah, she had a gun, but due to the legislation and her being a good law abiding citizen she left it in her vehicle. Then in her everyday life, found herself wishing that just that once she had broken the law and kept her pistol on her. She wished she had it even though she didn't think she would ever need it.
The question you must answer for yourself is "When can a terrorist attack occur?"
