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Does owning a gun make you safer? [View all] SecularMotion Aug 2015 OP
Not safer just prepared...training and awareness make you safer. ileus Aug 2015 #1
In a lot of rural areas, everybody owns a gun, yet gun crime is almost unheard of Travis_0004 Aug 2015 #2
If you want safety, I propose the Pretty Damn Safe Open Carry system rock Aug 2015 #3
Do let us know when and where we can see *you* demonstrating this... friendly_iconoclast Aug 2015 #4
No problem rock Aug 2015 #5
I was mistaken when you made an incorrect assumption rock Aug 2015 #6
Ok so clffrdjk Aug 2015 #10
You might fiddle with the gun if it's in a holster rock Aug 2015 #11
"belts, tapes, mechanisms". Sounds like bondage! Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #7
I like your style rock Aug 2015 #12
When you are a 2A defender on DU, you rise to the challenge! Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #19
I've always felt the 2A defenders on DU were challenged. SecularMotion Aug 2015 #20
Ba-doom-boom! Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #22
A drum and a cymbal fall down a flight of stairs... beergood Aug 2015 #35
You first, I don't believe in open carry discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2015 #15
Gladly rock Aug 2015 #16
The consequent conjunction of... discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2015 #17
Well, I guess I need to make a few points rock Aug 2015 #18
your points discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2015 #21
Advocating suicide and the functional equivalent rock Aug 2015 #24
Thanks for making my point for me discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2015 #27
Thanks indeed rock Aug 2015 #28
You're very welcome discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2015 #29
Thanks right back rock Aug 2015 #30
My favorite is: DashOneBravo Aug 2015 #31
And it's not the one with your name on it that you need to worry about. discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2015 #39
For the other services sarisataka Aug 2015 #32
No wonder the Air Force has.... discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2015 #40
And last but not least, Advice from Gunny Richerdson USMC. oneshooter Aug 2015 #42
Was there something in that opinion piece that you thought was worth discussing? ManiacJoe Aug 2015 #8
Sure. Kang Colby Aug 2015 #9
If guns don't make you safer, why do the police carry them? the band leader Aug 2015 #13
I know! I know! rock Aug 2015 #25
IDK about you... virginia mountainman Aug 2015 #14
Actually, I made myself safer.nt Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #23
When I had a robbery, and ensuing gunfight at my (former) home ghostsinthemachine Aug 2015 #26
How did you have a gunfight if you didn't have a gun? DonP Aug 2015 #34
I refer to it ias a gunfight becasue it was, I just didn't have a gun ghostsinthemachine Aug 2015 #36
So ... Straw Man Aug 2015 #37
No 3 bad guys with guns. ghostsinthemachine Aug 2015 #38
So the bad guys had legal guns? How do you know that? Straw Man Aug 2015 #41
Me, personally? Yes. Lizzie Poppet Aug 2015 #33
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