Why I carry a weapon.

> Why I Carry a Gun:
>
> My old grandpa said to me 'Son, there comes a time in every man's
> life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps 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 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 want 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 do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate
> the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the
> mess.
>
> Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old
> to take an ass whoopin'.
>
> ....author unknown (but obviously brilliant)