Maybe!

[Moveon]

One of the first rumours ws an antifa plot to start a civil war, that was proven false.the gunmen wasn't a rightist or a lefty, just another nut case with more ammo than brains. Moveon suggests everyone should be armed, maybe, I open carried a pistol for several years while I walked our dog down ky90. never raised an eye brow, but you know something, I've been un armed now for over 3 years, and I still feel safe most of the time. the one bad thing about shooters trying to helpis what if they make a fatal mistake? does ooops cover that?

Mistakes happen in all sorts of things. For example the Air Force made a mistake and didn't turn Kelly's criminal records over to the FBI national Crime Data Base. That would have prevented Kelly from buying guns and would have prevented the TX church shooting as well. Mistake are made every day.

I read today that another TX Church's Pastor is going to arm himself and have several members of the church armed as security too.

I was in another forum yesterday and someone proposed a hypothetical situation to me that I needed to think about. Suppose you are carrying and are in a back and witness someone pull out a gun and start robbing the back. Or it could be any business place. But there is another guy in the business that's carrying too. Both you and the other guy pull out your guns and seeing each other with a guy you don't know who's who. One of you or both of you could be with the bank robber.

Before he presented this hypothetical situation to me I said that if someone pointed a gun at me I would have to shoot them.

But now I'm going to have to think about that statement. If someone points a guy at me I'm going to be in fear of my life for sure. But what if the guy pointing the gun at me doesn't know who I am or that I'm there and trying to prevent a bank robbery by pulling my gun out and pointing it at the bank robber who's in turn pointing his gun at the teller and threatening the teller? Now I have another guy pointing a gun at me and I don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy with the bank robber. Something that I need to study some more I guess. I need to talk to some more experienced gun carrying people in law enforcement.

Now I could easily start talking to the guy with a gun and see what his intentions are. Or he could shoot me before I could shoot him. Lady or tiger situation I guess.

The world is a complicated place. We all have to make decisions. I could just sit there and not expose my gun and watch it all go down. That might be the smart thing to do. But it that the right thing to do? I'm not sure right now what I would do in that situation. I sure don't want to get shot. My goal is to protect myself first and if possible protect others. I may not uncover my gun if a gun man has the drop on me either. I'm not that fast at drawing and the gun range where I go to shoot won't allow us to practice drawing a guy out of a holster. In fact even if we are permitted to carry in IN the State Gun Ranges won't let us carry a gun in our holster while at the gun range. We have to unload the guns and carry them to the shooting area that way. Only when we get ready to shoot can we load the guns. Safety first. So the only way to practice drawing and shooting is to go out to the abandoned coal fields and closed down strip mines and practice shooting out there. Or to unload the pistol and use fake ammo to practice drawing and ejecting the magazine and loading a new magazine.


One thing I do agree with above is that coverage that the media gives to the shootings may well be the reason why we have some many more shootings. If this type of event was played down and not on the news 24/7 for days on end it might not give other the same idea to go shoot up the town. Something to think about. People tend to copy the actions of other and especially if the know that millions of other will see what they did on TV.