You VOLUNTEERED to serve. Not like my Uncle who is still with us and served in WW2. So that makes you better to carry a gun? Gosh never heard of an ex cop or military going crazy huh? Every week nut jobs are doing this but what all you 2nd Amendment people think "gosh darn if I was there I'd blown him away." Yeah right. I was showering once and heard someone in my apartment. I didn't know what to do. I had a 44 Magnum and took it out of its locked case. I was shaking beyond belief as I heard someone out in the other room. I went out and a man was bent over in.my kitchen. I was shaking and was afraid to put my finger on the trigger. The man looks up at me with his BIG SPRAYER looking like a ghost. Didn't even knock and came in. Almost had a bad situation. Guns are NOT good. When someone you love dies make sure you keep up that 2nd Amendment talk.
We have more guns than people in the U.S. These incidents won't ever stop unless the guns laws are changed. Repeat NEVER. If not these will happen over and over again. Won't ever stop. Open carry? Yeah that will allow nut jobs to not even have to worry about hiding it before shooting someone.
And today shows that these liberal idiots saying the cops don't need military gear are wrong? Well the psychopaths can get some pretty serious shit.
I volunteered once taking a Vet to the VA in Tampa. This was like 2005. He was telling me about D Day. He was in it. Said in his unit of 200 everyone but one was killed or injured. He was shot in the arm. Stupidly I asked if he watched Saving Private Ryan. Said he started but, had to stop.
Ever kill anyone Alaskan?
Yes, I volunteered to serve, as did both of my grandfathers (WW2), a great uncle (and all three of his sons), and my father (Vietnam). My paternal grandfather committed suicide with a gun (and never got to see SPR), but my maternal grandfather did and it was pretty unsettling for him. However, it did help him open up (to me) for the first time about his WW2 experiences and the people he's had to kill. (He was in the Philippines 7 days after D day with the task of eradicating the Japanese)
Sounds like you've had some scary encounters, shime. I'm sorry you had to go through that. We've only had one attempted break-in (2013) and I responded to it armed (and
terrified)...the two perps I met attempting to come through my front door fortunately ran when they saw me coming down my stairs (armed). They jumped in their truck and sped off.
I don't carry so I can "take out the bad guy" (
and I don't always carry). As I've told my wife, if some nut job comes firing an assault rifle in a theater, we're either A. running for the door or B. I'm laying on top of you...I'll shoot if he comes directly at me. I have no delusions of grandeur that I'm going to abandon my family and go off to blow away some loony. Who knows, though...really...what they will do until thrust into the situation.
No, I have not killed anyone (thank God) and hope I never do. And I've had MANY friends die, commit suicide or been killed in action. I support the 2nd Amendment, but I'm always open to new/better ideas concerning gun laws as I, too, would like them out of the hands of those not equipped to own them.
