I am a liberal democrat and I own guns. Because I hunt. Where I’m from everyone hunts. I normally kill 2-3 deer a year and we enjoy eating the most low fat and healthiest meat on the planet. In a very regulated season that insures a healthy deer herd.
But I don’t own and will never own modern military style weapons. And believe no rifle magazine should legally be larger then 10 bullets. Well, actually, if I were king it would be 5, but we could actually get 10 done.
As to carrying, I can’t really answer. I have never carried and will never carry a gun daily.
But at one time, I had a concealed carry permit for one very specific reason. My wife and I used to fish off kayaks in often very remote locations on the Florida Gulf Coast. 15-20 years ago we put in at an extremely remote location where I expect no one else to be and cell phone coverage was a non-existent. . As we started paddling up to our truck I saw there was a total redneck looking van parked next to my truck. Told the wife to fish a couple of hundred yards off while I landed. And my suspicion was somewhat confirmed. The folks in that van had the potential to be bad news. Fortunately, I can do ‘redneck’ if needed and we were able to load up with no problem except for comments about our silly boats. Equally fortunate, we caught a bunch of fish and that impressed them some.
But I swore I would never be that helpless again with my wife depending on me. And under Florida law the only way I could legally have a firearm in a NWA was to have a concealed carry license. So I got one and and handgun and learned to use it safely and proficiently.
We now have a boat and I no longer will find myself in that very specific situation so I did not renew my Concealed license.
You talk about all mad max and stuff. I was not worried about silly stuff like that. But wilderness areas in the south can be dangerous. Way more dangerous than many big cities.
Read the last Democratic Party Platform. It supports the right to own a firearm for self protection. With lost of regulation including an AWB. I support the Democratic platform.
Unless you live in a rural area where government help is a long way off it is hard to understand. Even if that remote area had had cell service the police would have been a half hour or more away. Maybe an hour.
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