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Posted: 1/26/2006 5:37:02 PM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:
Is it because you just like shooting sports? Or is it for SHTF scenarios? zombies? Repelling an invasion? Economic collapse?

I need a new good reason!!

Yup

Posted: 1/26/2006 5:39:51 PM EDT

[#2]

I'm not paranoid, I'm ready.

Posted: 1/26/2006 5:45:03 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Because the 2nd Amendment tells me I should be if I enjoy liberty.

+1

Posted: 1/26/2006 5:45:11 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
I'm not paranoid, I'm ready.

No, you aren't.

Posted: 1/26/2006 6:27:13 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Because I CAN!!!

<insert evil arfcommer patented laugh here>

+1!!!! Somebody say. "A-men!"

As I always say to the local libs about gun ownership, "It's a freedom thing- you wouldn't understand."

Why do I have all these "more thrust per squeeze", "bullet hose", "banana clip-loading" "schoolkid-killing" "weapons of mass destruction in slow motion"?

If for no other reason, than to thumb my nose at the rest of liberal Massachusetts! HAW-HAW!

Posted: 1/26/2006 6:34:23 PM EDT

[#6]

The day I possess a 240B with a couple spare barrels and have a truckload of belted 7.62 is the day I am well armed.

Posted: 1/26/2006 6:40:49 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Hard to argue with such an obvious fact

Posted: 1/26/2006 6:56:17 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Seriously?

I'm Jewish.

That a very good reason!

Especially when you consider the history of the world over the past hundred years....were I Jewish, I'd be VERY well-armed.

Sadly, my liberal Jewish neighbors call me anti-Semitic when I bring this up.....

Posted: 1/26/2006 6:56:51 PM EDT

[#9]

Celebrating freedom here.

Posted: 1/26/2006 6:58:17 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
yes, and i got some kic ass deal when i used to run a gun shope

If I worked in a gun shop, it would be like an alcoholic working in a liquor store....

Posted: 1/26/2006 6:58:57 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Quoted:
www.a-human-right.com/s_free_men.jpg

Hard to argue with such an obvious fact

Too bad they used a Choate ultimate sniper stock, with a savage, and some rubber coated scope for that picture. They were obviously poor.

Posted: 1/26/2006 7:01:51 PM EDT

[#12]

Carr Brothers

Posted: 1/26/2006 7:04:49 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Is it because you just like shooting sports? Or is it for SHTF scenarios? zombies? Repelling an invasion? Economic collapse?

I need a new good reason!!

well for one I just like collecting guns and gun stuff. I was also a boy scout so I had it drilled into me that its better to have something and not need it then to need it and not have it.

Ive never shot anyone and hope I never will. But if I am ever in ANY situation where a gun can save my life or the lives of others then I have the hardware and the knowledge to use it.

Posted: 1/26/2006 7:12:26 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
All of the above.

Yup. Took the words right out of my mouth.

Posted: 1/26/2006 7:19:55 PM EDT

[#15]

I just like guns.

Posted: 1/26/2006 7:22:11 PM EDT

[#16]

Seriously, why are you so well armed?

I am so well armed because I am so well hung.

GR

Posted: 1/26/2006 7:25:42 PM EDT

[#17]

I'm nowhere near as well armed as I'd like to be.

Posted: 1/26/2006 7:26:41 PM EDT

[#18]

the more armed you are the less armed you think you are

My increasing knowledge of guns has made me realize how much I don't have!

Posted: 1/26/2006 7:53:40 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
I fear a dishonorable, shaking on my knees, "oh please don't kill me sir" kind of death. And I'll try to not make that happen.

That's it, folks! We have a winner! <DING> <DING>

Truly, I own firearms because it's exactly what would most piss off every Nazi, Commie, King, and [insert other tyrant here] on the planet.

One armed man CAN make a difference. You can fend off totalitarianism one armed man at a time.

Posted: 1/26/2006 8:03:19 PM EDT

[#20]

According to my relatives it's because I'm paranoid but I know they're just saying that so I'll lower my defenses. I'm pretty sure they're all working for communists.

Posted: 1/26/2006 8:08:33 PM EDT

[#21]

To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Posted: 1/26/2006 8:10:03 PM EDT

[#22]

I am not.
Yet.

Posted: 1/26/2006 8:17:04 PM EDT

[#23]

because God made me with 2 arms......doy!

All the above

Posted: 1/26/2006 8:30:57 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Pirates (that's the AR10 rifle)

As far as pistols, I have so many Hi Powers 'cause I can't resist 'em - it's a sickness, I tell you. I need a grant to study it more.

ETA: For some in other areas of the country who think I'm kidding about the pirates - I'm not.

OH OH, I can feel it coming. Somebody stop me, pleessee!!!!........

Arrrr Can Ye Smell It

I feel much better now.

Can you give us the details?

Posted: 1/26/2006 8:42:08 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Because I CAN!!!

<insert evil arfcommer patented laugh here>

+1000

Posted: 1/26/2006 8:43:00 PM EDT

[#26]

I Just Don’t Want to Die Alone

by Joel Simon
[email protected]

Exclusive to TLE

"Why do you do that? What would you USE it for?"

My fellow cubicle-dweller is an interesting fellow. Former Special Forces grunt, son of a semi-famous actor. He burned out after being seriously injured in the army, and bummed around Asia doing god-knows-what before coming back to America. Then he bootstrapped his way to a fairly good tech writing job at the Silicon Valley branch of a Japanese robotics company. I feel a certain kinship with him. We've both made some serious mistakes for which we're paying some very serious prices. He's single; I'm divorced. He's cynical as hell and so am I. Neither of us has many friends outside work. I like him.

And that's why I told him how I spend most of my weekends. And that's why, when he asked his question, I gave an honest answer. An answer he found disturbing and offensive. I should have just shut up, or lied.

I shoot. A lot. I have, off and on, for decades. When I'm not shooting, or working, I'm cleaning up from shooting or getting ready to shoot. When I'm not practicing with my M1A, I practice with a .45. Sometimes just for variety I practice with a knife. What little money I have left after taxes, bills and child support, I spend on food and books and reloading stuff and surplus rifle ammo. Rarely in that order.

It's not for enjoyment. I tell people (and myself) that I enjoy it all to pieces, but the truth is I don't actually enjoy it that much. I'm hardly Jeff Cooper, but I'm at least good enough with a handgun to give a street mugger reason to regret his career choice. I don't hunt. I'm not planning a life of crime. So why spend so much time on it?

That's the question my friend asked me. It's the question I used to lay awake asking myself night after night, already knowing the answer. Along with, "am I crazy?"

My daughter flew up from LA to visit for a week during the holiday break, and inadvertently reinforced my reason for shooting so much. It was the first time I'd been to an airport since the Sept. 11 hijackings. I'd heard how much worse they'd gotten, but I still wasn't ready for what I found there:

After buying an e-ticket online, I was required to present proof of my identity at least three days before the flight or my daughter would not be allowed to board.

I was forbidden to enter the short-term parking lot until I consented to have my car searched. I didn't ask whether a cased rifle in the trunk (legal even in California) would cause the searcher to lose sphincter control. I just drove away unsearched and came back later.

While standing in the first of several lines in the airport, I noticed:

An Immense Machine scanning luggage for contraband, taking up space once used to welcome passengers. I thought the large American flag that covered it was a nice ironic touch.

A colorful illustrated sign listing the sorts of things you could be arrested for "smuggling" onto an airplane, such as plastic cutlery, corkscrews, and nail files.

A prominent notice that it was a federal offense not to inform the airline of firearms in checked baggage, which would of course be discovered by the Immense Machine. It's not, oddly enough, an offense to HAVE a firearm in checked baggage. But to be legal, the baggage must receive a sticker that says, in effect, "steal this bag."

When I arrived to meet my daughter's plane, I was refused permission to go to the gate. No amount of explaining, arguing, or pleading would produce an exception to this rule. This "protective" rule required my barely-teenage daughter to wander alone through a busy airport concourse until she happened to arrive at the closest location I could approach without being shot by national guardsmen.

When my daughter and I went to the security checkpoint for her return flight (you're allowed to escort a child to the gate, but not to pick one up there), an unpleasant woman with a heavy accent demanded that we remove our jackets, belts, and wallets and send them through the X-ray machine. Some passengers were required to remove their shoes.

Venerable elderly ladies were pulled aside for (random, I think) wand searches. One particular lady - blond, young, heart-breakingly well-built - received particular attention. She was apparently considered too dangerous for a mere wand search and needed to be patted down.

After I beeplessly passed through the metal detector, another woman refused to allow me to pass until I removed my hat. She ran her hand through the inside, very thoroughly. It's a rather old hat; I have a rather greasy head. I do hope she enjoyed it.

I looked around and noticed the postures of the national guardsmen who surrounded the checkpoint. You know: The ones posted at the airports to protect us from terrorists? They faced inward. Their M-16's, slung at the ready, were pointed at my daughter and me.
What particularly disturbed me about all this was how cheerfully my fellow herd members received it. We seemed to have fallen into a movie about occupied France, and it didn't bother anyone. I wanted to shake people by the shoulders. Either I was crazy, or everyone else in the airport was.

Later that afternoon I went to the range and burned through over 100 rounds of .308. Just gotta get those groups smaller from the prone position.

All of which leads me back to my friend's question, and to the bleak and offensive way I replied to it:

"I only expect to use it once," I told him.

"I fancy myself an honest man. I've never intentionally harmed an innocent soul, and I've never stolen so much as a slice of bread even when I was broke and hungry. I obey every law I can bring myself to, sometimes at the cost of self-contempt. But there are some things I CAN NOT do, and someday those things will be demanded of me. Then I'll be branded a dangerous criminal. And someone will come for me, and I'll resist. Then the shooting will start, and I'll likely be killed. I just don't want to die alone."

"Are you telling me," my friend asked, "That you'd shoot some poor pimple-faced grunt just because he was ordered to be the first one through your door?" I recalled that my friend had earlier said that he was assigned to "counter-terrorism" work in the Special Forces, and that his training had more to do with breaking down doors than storming bunkers. I looked up and met his eyes.

"I have to take the consequences of my choices," I replied, "And he has to take the consequences of his."

I wish I could believe that the original intent of our republic can be restored. I really do. Not long ago I re-read El Neil's and Aaron Zelman's book Hope. I leaned back in my chair and tried to retreat into a fantasy of what it would be like to have someone like Alexander Hope as president, providing a way for us to restore our liberty while punishing those guilty of stealing it from us. I just couldn't do it.

No president like that will arise. Americans won't rise up, either, even when it's too late. In the unlikely event we do organize for revolt, we'll lose. Since I can't imagine living in the future America I envision, I expect to die. And when I die, I don't expect to be surrounded by friends. So enemies will have to do. I just don't want to die alone

Posted: 1/26/2006 8:53:01 PM EDT

[#27]

I just read the thread title and a HUGE smile rapidly spread across my face...

I'm so well armed because I need to pick up the slack of the sheeple of this great country. Or, I do it for the Framers. Shit, I don't need a reason, I just love weapons

--VT

Posted: 1/26/2006 9:13:57 PM EDT

[#28]

Because I watched the movie Commando too many times.

Posted: 1/26/2006 10:41:27 PM EDT

[#29]

* Feral cats (recycle of an old reason)
* Reasons? We ain't got no steenking reasons!
* Well armed? As in having enough, or even too many arms? How many conficts are there in history where somebody's complaining where they have too many guns?
* I'm just trying to catch up with an unarmed Chuck Norris
* For hunting cows
* When faced with decisions, I followed the advice and got both!
* Because they mostly come at night... mostly.
* Three words: Hillary

Posted: 1/26/2006 10:42:35 PM EDT

[#30]

Why are you so well armed?

Because the alternative may get me killed.

Posted: 1/26/2006 10:44:47 PM EDT

[#31]

I can't afford bodyguards

Posted: 1/26/2006 11:14:32 PM EDT

[#32]

Guns are tools, no better or worse than any other tool, an axe, a shovel, anything...

and you can never have too many tools.

Posted: 1/26/2006 11:26:07 PM EDT

[#33]

all my funs are errsoft. really.

Posted: 1/27/2006 3:41:30 AM EDT

[#34]

In the early '90s I lived/worked in South Asia serving with the U.S. Peace Corps. Before that experience I owned guns for hunting, plinking, etc. but never really appreciated the 2A. After having people all over Asia (police, soldiers, pirates and punks) point guns & knives at me for a couple years and tell me where to go and what to do, I came home convinced that there are two kinds of people in this world; 1)armed or 2)vitimized. I am not saying this like I am some sort of tough guy or CTU's Jack, I am just an average armed Citizen but IF myself or my family is ever attacked I/We WILL fight back!

Posted: 1/27/2006 3:48:44 AM EDT

[#35]

Variety is the spice of life and because I can!

Posted: 1/27/2006 3:49:45 AM EDT

[#36]

Define "well armed".

There's a difference between owning a sufficient armory to insure security and provide for recreation, and owning a bunch of guns.

A .38 will do, still don't have a 10/22 though. I did pick up a deeper wheel barrel with a larger wheel; it'll get camo'd this weekend.

Posted: 1/27/2006 3:53:09 AM EDT

[#37]

For the same reason I enjoy eating a Filet Mignon, cooked medium rare, in front of vegetarians.

Posted: 1/27/2006 4:00:03 AM EDT

[#38]

Because the safety of my family comes first before anything else.

Posted: 1/27/2006 4:11:32 AM EDT

[#39]

I can't afford golf.

rk

Posted: 1/27/2006 4:14:10 AM EDT

[#40]

I'm so well armed because it is cool.

Posted: 1/27/2006 4:32:00 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Is it because you just like shooting sports? Or is it for SHTF scenarios? zombies? Repelling an invasion? Economic collapse?

I need a new good reason!!

because I can...

Posted: 1/27/2006 7:37:20 AM EDT

[#42]

A friend of mine once said, "I never thought I needed an Assault Weapon, until the government told me I couldn't have one."

Posted: 1/27/2006 7:46:55 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
Is it because you just like shooting sports? Or is it for SHTF scenarios? zombies? Repelling an invasion? Economic collapse?

yes.

Posted: 1/27/2006 7:51:51 AM EDT

[#44]

Just because. That's all.

Posted: 1/27/2006 7:52:18 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
I am a free man.

That's why.

Ding, we have a winner.

Posted: 1/27/2006 7:55:39 AM EDT

[#46]

Because this is the United States and the constitution gives us that right

Posted: 1/27/2006 8:00:20 AM EDT

[#47]

Too many people died for me not to express this right.

(Unfortunately I don't have any... the first Chance I get to get one I will be one armed American)

Posted: 1/27/2006 8:00:46 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
I am a free man.

That's why.

Darn right.

Posted: 1/27/2006 8:01:49 AM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:
Because this is the United States and the constitution gives us that right

If it were only that black and white a lot of us wouldl own a lot more than semi-autos.

Posted: 1/27/2006 8:05:32 AM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Because this is the United States and the constitution gives us that right

If it were only that black and white a lot of us wouldl own a lot more than semi-autos.

It is that black and white, you can blame the government for its infringement

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