I've probably changed flat tires for ladies I didn't know ten or twelve times. The same impulse that leads me to do this would never allow me to walk past someone else being assaulted and go merrily on my way: the desire that someone would stop and help if it were my mother, sister, wife or grandmother in that situation.
I own and carry firearms not just to protect myself and my family, but to make my piece of the world a little safer and better place to live. Obviously, if I'm getting a hard time about something, the solution isn't to start putting 0.45" holes in things. Carrying has actually lowered my blood pressure about a lot of things, moron drivers foremost. But if the defense of [b]your own[/b] life is the only reason you can conceive of clearing leather, you're wearing blinders.
Just my opinion, YMMV.
FMCDH
Semper Fidelis
Jarhead out.
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“A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
--John Stuart Mill