🚀 go-pugleaf

>You may only *need* to have a firearm once in your lifetime.
>That's due to the possibility that when you *need* it you won't *have*
>it, thus setting yourself up to go down without much of a struggle.

	This is a good point, unfortunately it's mostly nonsense.

	What makes you so sure you're going to get an opportunity
to struggle? From everything I've read about the many shootings in
our area, most of the time it's not a bullet swap-fest, but rather
someone pulls a gun and shoots the other fellow before the poor
bastard even has a good idea what's going on. Depending on who you
are dealing with, being prepared doesn't even enter into the
picture. The alternative is to carry a gun and be constantly
ready to use it, to keep someone from getting the drop on you, and
in that case it seems people tend to shoot mailmen and housemates
more often than not.

	This isn't the wild west you know. When one of our home
boys decides he's gonna do you, he's not going to yell "Draw!"
first. You'll go down without a struggle, with your gun in your
pocket, just like the rest of them.

mjr.
-- 
                                                 "guns don't die. people do."