Does anyone here carry a firearm everywhere they go?

[beevul]

18. My problem, is you seem to keep changing the definition, in an effort to get it to stick.

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First, the standard was "go nowhere without being armed".

Now:

"All it means is that they feel compelled by their desire, or need, to carry to ensure their personal safety."

Right. I'm sure you didn't mean it like the most common usage and meaning use of the word - "'compulsive' gambler" - for example.


The bottom line, is that right up to this very moment, you're still assigning a motivation or cause to the actions of people you know nothing about, based solely on their actions, and based not-at-all on the reasons or criteria for which they chose those actions. You are ASSUMING what their motivation is. And you're assuming that their actions are based not on choice, but compulsion. The two are generally mutually exclusive. You knew that when you used the word though. You knew exactly what you were saying, and how it would be recieved, and now you dare feign ignorance. And innocence. Its entertaining, but very transparent. As you've been told, some of us have been at this for a long long time, and have seen it before.

2 guys can go to a casino, and one blows his entire paycheck because he really and truly IS a compulsive gambler, and another does it simply because decides to, and has the spare money. Without knowing anything about either one, can you tell us, all of us, which is which? No? How come you can where gun carry is concerned then, huh? The difference between those two is stark, and now your walking it back in an effort to find some grey area between the the way you used the word and intended it to be recieved, and the warm fuzzy completely-out-of-the-ballpark way you're now claiming you meant it as. There isn't any. You're caught in a web of your own words, and its nobodys fault but yours. Anyone that cares to, can go into that other thread and see it for themself clear as day.


My main problem, is you're playing games. Semantic games. Goalpost moves. Using what is generally agreed upon to be perjorative and then swearing up and down that you mean it in only the most benevolent way, after previously having defined it otherwise by the standards you stated for the imaginary people you apply it to. Unfounded assertions and conclusions about the motivations of people you know absolutely nothing about - you've made them repeatedly. And you've stated those assertions and conclusions as if theyre fact, when no such facts have been introduced with which to support those conclusions. I can cite every single one of those things, because i've been paying attention.

Do you REALLY think nobody else has been? Really?

Insulting, and arrogant, thats what it is.