Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Prices of Freedom Date:   12/9/2015 3:35:45 PM

Playing the Devil's advocate - what about when an armed intruder decides to kick your door in and the sheriff is about 40 minutes away?  Do you leave the room?  Do you ask him to please not hurt you? 

Or what about if you are a crowded movie theatre (the ampitheatre type) and someone comes in through the exiit firing?  How do you leave the room?  Do you lay down and wait for him to shoot you?  Most of these incidents are over in less than 4 minutes. 

Oh, and my mother watched one of her coworkers stabbed to death by her estranged husband in the middle of the afternoon in a crowed parking lot as she left work.  Not one person came forward to help her, they just watched in horror, because they were afraid they too would be killed. 

There are many things along the gun ownership I could agree with doing way with - extended magazines, modified handgrips, etc, that usually pertain to the "assault type rifles", i.e., AR-15.  Without those modifications, the AR is no more deadly than a hunting rifle, and not too many people are toting them as a conceal carry 

I don't especially care for the world where having a gun on me makes me feel a bit safer - but this is the world I have to live in now.  I don't think by not carrying a gun I am making the world a safer place; instead I just leave myself helpless in case something does happen.  When you pull your weapon in the face of a mass shooting, you have made a decision to try to be part of the solution and not a victim.  And I'd rather go down trying to survive than to go down wrapped in a fetal position hoping I survive.