Confederate guy:

I often have the following exchange with some my CHL holding Paulists friends:

Me: ” Why do you need to carry? Just shop online as much as possible, stay out of bad neighborhoods and mind your own business. You won’t have any need to carry a gun.

Paulist: “Why should I restrict what I do? Besides someone may break into my house or attack me when I am out minding my own business.”

Me: “I see, you don’t look for trouble, trouble can come looking for you?

Paulist: “yeah, that’s right.”

What you Paulist idiots don’t understand is that the United States is not some insignificant agricultural nation isolated from the rest of the world by two Oceans. If we want to go about our global business we will have a large footprint. Trouble will always be looking for us.

Oh yeah, during the early years of the Republic when the US was an insignificant pissant country separated from the rest of the world by two oceans trouble came looking for us. Beginning with the undeclared naval war with France in 1798 through the end of the War of 1812 the US was almost in continual conflict with European and North African powers. Sure for a century or so after the War of 1812, the US managed to stay out of foreign entanglements unless of course we wanted grab a little territory. Of course that was the most peaceful European Century since the fall of the Western Empire. We didn’t get into Europe’s wars because, well, they didn’t have any real wars. Like your OWS bretheran, you are ignorant of American, European and World History.