It's Not About Hunting!

I don’t know why I have to say this over and over with nobody—not even pro-gun people—listening, I don’t know. The NRA and others cheapen the debate by insisting that it is about hunting, and they’re WRONG. It’s about SELF-DEFENSE, and the right to own and carry the means to that, a gun. Hunting is only secondary to the debate. The whole debate is over whether people have the right to self-defense, not to hunt. I’ve never hunted in my life, but I want to be able to carry a gun for self-defense so if some thug shoots me it will be the last thing he does in his life. Why do even pro-gun people ignore this? I just can’t understand that. The older I get, the more I NEED to be able to carry a gun with all the tall, strapping “bad guys” out there who want to hurt me. Old people (of which I freely admit to being) are “prime targets” for “bad guys,” and I want to be able to repulse any of them who accost me, in ways they can’t fight. It’s as simple as that. And like a trailer on a car, hunting rights will go wherever that leads. The anti-gun argument that if I had a gun in my pocket I’d be shooting people over a parking space is the argument of a damned fool. I had a carry permit a long time ago in Indiana and I never killed anybody—for good reason or bad. (Just common sense)