Why I keep guns in my home.

[MessiahRp]

142. Bigger question: How paranoid are gun owners to think that they are ALWAYS at risk of a shootout?

What are the stats on odds that your home will be broken into? More or slightly less than the chance that you'll be struck by lightning?

Where do those odds go with you add "armed assailant" to that equation? Probably even greater long shot odds.

What about needing the guns to fend off the Government? We did that in the Revolutionary War. The people that did that in the Civil War were actually the bad guys as determined by history. Other than that? Nada.

This reminds me of when white people I know (disclosure, I am also white) clutch their pearls about going into the city or worse into certain neighborhoods. Their paranoia tells them without a doubt that because they are innocent middle class white folks, they are for sure going to be _______ (robbed/stabbed/shot/sexually assaulted). Believe me, I saw this when I lived in Milwaukee and the dept. I worked for at AT&T was out in super white Pewaukee and as soon as there were rumors of us moving to the downtown office, which BTW was a really nice office in a fairly affluent section of downtown, they started clutching their fucking pearls.

The reality is this: Even if you go deep in the hood, it's all about how you act there. If you're an asshole, sure you're going to be in more danger. If you act suspicious, yeah they're going to be watching you closer and might make a move out of self preservation. But I am Whitey McWhiterton and I have been in the worst part of Milwaukee many, many times and when I minded my own business and showed people respect guess what... nada. No guns. No harsh words. No dirty looks. Nothing.

And this is the situation at hand. White people are the ones loading up on guns. Out of irrational paranoid fear of minorities. Remember, the ones that "took their jobs" (because they're too fucking stupid to understand corporate white assholes outsourced them) or the ones that "forced them to speak Spanish" (if only we were all bilingual) or the ones that "forced a black president from another country onto them and who is trying to destroy the Constitution to give everything to lazy welfare queens" (my head hurts incredibly bad from piecing this one together).

And not all gun nuts are racist mind you but let's play to the fact that they are in fact paranoid. They defend armed "self defense" aka killing someone else, as their unalienable right. Chances are very, very high that they'll never ever have a single thing stolen from their house or that they will ever experience a break in. You want to protect yourself from that the right way? Dump your murder weapon, buy a home security system and give up a little cash for some additional renters/homeowners insurance so your precious material items can be itemized and replaced.

Paranoia, the world in which gun nuts live, is the real mental disorder we speak of when we mention mental illness in this equation. And because these people are mentally ill how is it even logical to argue with them? They are after all, mentally ill.

We're all out to get you, you see.