Gun Owners: What are you Compensating for?
We’ve all heard it before, guys who carry guns have small penises or some variation of that. I have always laughed at that notion–usually said by people who have no clue or who are afraid of personal responsibility of any type. I am reading a book called The Cornered Cat: A Woman’s Guide to Concealed Carry which is, as the name indicates a book for women who want to carry guns for self-defense. The author, Kathy Jackson, is rather humorous and discusses the common accusation that “Gun owners are compensating for something. Usually said with an evil grin and a you-know-what-I mean kind of chuckle.”
Jackson admits that it is absolutely true; she is compensating for something. In fact, she is compensating for a number of things: For her kids who are too small to defend themselves, for being a sedentary middle-aged woman, for wanting a decent back-up plan if luck doesn’t work, and for not “wanting to be the dead victim of the next murder the local police will be investigating after it happens.”
If you believe in gun rights, what are you compensating for?
I’m compensating for the fact that I’m 69 years old, and with my arthritis, I couldn’t run away if the thug gave me a minute’s head start.
I’m compensating for the fact that I’m not bulletproof, can’t afford body armor, and live in a world where criminals use guns.
Busted…yeah well I compensate for my inability to throw projectiles accurately and at a high enough velocity to be incapacitating to the intended target. Other than that I’m good….enough.
My human is compensating for being 5′ 3″ and 106 lbs, in a country where (to judge from recent news articles) she might be attacked by a “flash mob” for having the temerity to visit a state fair/downtown shopping district/mall/bus terminal/Burger King/McDonalds/Quicky Mart/who knows where next . She can’t take me as an attack dog with her everywhere, so she uses a Ruger LCP with a red laser attachment : She says that if an attacker looks down and sees the red dot on his chest, he probably won’t even give her a chance to pull the trigger! (Though it’s loaded, of course.)She has a special handbag with a compartment to carry, though she hopes to find a good CCW holster so she can front or back carry the LCP , while purse carrying her 38.
Shh. Don’t talk about guns and penises at the same time, or they’ll want to register penises, too. And there’s no Second Amendment right to keep and bear a penis.
Just think about the serial-number engraving process… yeowch.
I’m not worried. I think mine qualifies as a non-functioning replica. I’ve been shooting with blanks for quite some time.
So, would a condom be a “Blank Firing Adapter”?
You guys are twisted… really, really twisted!
How does one microstamp semen?
That’s ammo. I assume they just need toolmarks to ID it.
Semen is already micro-stamped. It’s called DNA!
By taste, I suppose.
Make sure you check your powder thrower regularly when hand loading. You really don’t want one to go light and stovepipe a case. And you really, REALLY don’t want to overload one and blow out the receiver…
As Larry Niven famously pointed out in “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”, that was why the whole Superman / Lois Lane thing wasn’t going anywhere….
I don’t know if everyone would think it was so bad. I’ll bet Tiger Woods next wife will ask for a thumbprint-recognition penis safe….
They can take my penis when they pry it from my cold dead hand!
Why was it in your hand?
Its called being amrried!
I’m okay as long as they keep the serial number below 37 digits. 24-point type, of course, for readability. How large will the barcode be?
And I’m compensating for not having a platoon of enlisted men to sweat the small stuff for me anymore…
I figured sooner or later we’d get to this point. An old joke:
You do know that testosterone is a controlled substance, right?
No, I’m not joking. I wish I were.
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/cfr/1308/1308_34a.htm
I’m compensating for being a short light weight (5’4″, 105 lbs.) who believes in self-reliance.
I’m compensating for my relative weakness compared to a) large game animals, b) criminals, and c) the government in that order. In other words, I’m compensating the same way my weapon-bearing ancestors did. Besides, as those who insist on getting in our faces with offensive speech and behavior are always reminding us, if you don’t exercise your Constitutinoal rights you might lose them someday.
I am compensating for the knowledge that my loved ones and my life are worth and undefinable amount more to the future of the planet than 1,000,000 rioting, murderous, raping,s tabbing thugs that may try to do me harm.
I do not fight fair….
If something (notice i did not include the word “person”) tries to erase my being (or my family or even a stranger within my sight) I shall rise up and be a responsible person with the DUTY not to do nothing in the face of evil.
SO yes I am compensating… I just dont like losing….
I cheat..
I stack the deck…
I am a prepper
I prepare…
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.
YEp call me a whack a doodle or just call me “Scout”
Honor and duty are anachronistic concepts to those who would take our rights away. They also are confused about the distinction between responsibility and authority, thinking that because they have given the police the authority to protect us they have also transferred the responsibility to do so as well. But honor and duty require us to be ready to satisfy our responsibility to protect ourselves, our families and our property.
I’ve been a Scout leader some 18 years now. During Scoutmaster conferences especially, but also in other discussions I have often asked Scouts to repeat the Scout Oath. I stop them after the first paragraph and ask them, “What’s your honor? What’s your duty to God? What’s your duty to Country?” It’s clear that few of them have considered the question before, and very few have ever had anyone explain to them what the words they say every week mean. It has led to some interesting discussions.
Ron,
All scouts should have learned the answers to those questions to earn their first badge. It’s probably a very good thing to go back over them as the boys mature, since the answers will change.
My favorite question I learned from a fellow scouter who was a Scoutmaster, an Army Ranger, a Vietnam Vet and a Native American. What’s the third word in the Scout Law?
Answer: A Scout IS.
IMHO, the word “is” is the most important word in the Scout Law.
An old joke but I like it.
A guy cruises thru a stop sign, and gets pulled over by a local policeman. He hands the cop his driver’s license, insurance verification, plus his concealed carry permit.
“Okay, Mr. Smith,” the cop says, “I see your CCW permit. Are you carrying today?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Well then, better tell me what you got.”
Smith says, “Well, I got a .357 revolver in my inside coat pocket. There’s a 9mm semi-auto in the glove box. And, I’ve got a .22 magnum derringer in my right boot.”
“Okay,” the cop says. “Anything else?”
“Yeah, back in the trunk, there’s an AR15 and a shotgun. That’s about it.”
“Mr. Smith, are you on your way to or from a gun range…?”
“Nope.”
“Well then, what are you afraid of…?”
“Not a damn thing…”
All right already, I’m compensating for… well, you know. Does that mean I’m not allowed to defend myself?
Relax. You never heard of John Holmes deploying his brobdignagian fornicating engine in self defense, did you? Of course no. He carried a pistol just like regular-sized folk.
P.S. – I’ll be glad when pseudo-intellectual faux-Freudianism goes out of fashion. It’s no longer the height of wit or perspicacity to suggest that men who own guns are “compensating,” that assertive men are secretly insecure, or that men who don’t care for homosexual lifestyles are secretly afraid of being gay themselves. It’s 2011, for God’s sake. Only snotty liberals and old screenwriters take Freud seriously anymore. (Burt Prelutsky excepted, of course. He ain’t old, he’s experienced.)
I am compensating for the existence of strangers who worry entirely too much about my penis.
Ditto — It is an serious indictment of Leftists intellectuals at large that Freudianism was ever taken seriously in the first place. It never had a scintilla of scientific grounding yet was accepted as gospel by secular Western intellectuals for over 50 years and still crops up in things like “compensation”.
The entire concept of “compensation” has been shown by modern research to be bogus. In reality, the kind of people who like to swagger with guns have greatly inflated but deeply sincere high self-esteem. Deep in their psyche they are not timid mice desperately erecting a defensive shell of bluster but instead arrogant narcissist. They think they are great and wonderful and there use of ostentatious weapons, vehicles, clothes, jewelry etc are just projections of how they see themselves. They have “big badass guns” because they think of themselves as “big bad ass” people.
Like many things in Leftists thought, the concept of “compensation” is just narcissistic projection on the part of secular intellectuals. What they are really saying is that they think people have to “compensate” for not being a Leftists intellectuals, the most perfect and wonderful beings ever.
Bleh.
This is my rifle and this is my gun…oh never mind…
I’m compensating for times when I might be outnumbered . . . and I’m mighty glad Colonel Colt evened things up a bit when I am.
I’m compensating for the fact that the cops are minutes away when seconds count.
To add to dork’s comment, that has nothing to do with law enforcement competency and everything to do with physics.
BooYa!
Pull the trigger ’til it clicks, then reload and repeat!
Compensating for my lack of hand-to-hand combat skills?
Compensating for certain other citizens’ lack of respect for my rights and property?
Compensating for the shortness of my arms, a deficiency that prevents me from getting close enough to strangle a deer before it runs away?
Compensating for all the other fun stuff I’m not legally allowed to own/possess/carry/do/think/say?
The list is a long one, I’m afraid.
I don’t own a gun, but I would get one if they are outlawed.
I’m compensating for my soft-heartedness. I’m afraid I might just not have the nerve to stick a knife in somebody until they are no longer a threat.
There are alot of good answers here, but #13 is my pick.
I have been ‘compensating’ for well over 30 years now, and it has been a terrible nuisance. Always having to remember where it is, to make certain I have one each time I leave the house etc…..it is alot of trouble.
All of the nuisance all of those years, the one time I needed it made it all worth while. If I have to lug it around another 30 years and never need it, that one time made it justifiable. Had it not been for having a firearm in that one crucial instant twenty years ago, my son, ( about to graduate college) and myself might not be here.
That is why I will never be convinced by any of the tripe spouted by anti-gunners, and will never obey any law that attempts to disarm me.
With you on that!
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
I’m compensating for the fact that when good men do something sometimes evil won’t backdown and hopes to triumph by being an imminent threat of death or bodily injury.
Yeah, you got me: I’m compensating for being too weak to carry a whole cop around with me.
…And his retirement benefits would be unsustainable.
Given the number of things that are viewed by liberals as “compensation for…you know (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)”, it’s evident that civilization and technology owe their very existence to men with small penises.
I’m compensating for the delay between calling 911 and reloading.
This is an interesting illustration of the left having no concept of what it means to be a man- ie: assigning sexual prowess as a primary indicator. There are many males out there with copious sexual conquests who have no more idea of what it means to be a Man than a donkey has. We see this portrayed every day in the popular culture. Manhood is NOT sex, gang slang, nasty behavior, abuse, drugs, or violence.
As far as the liberal men go, most are probably secretly envious of the armed Man- from prehistoric times, the use and ownership of weapons has been a defining point for those who would stand true and defend their loved ones, their community and their selves. The man would no more be separated from the sword than a woman from her jewels. The idea of voluntarily surrendering arms would have been disgusting to them, as an abject revocation of their responsibilities.
I do not compensate for anything- I bear weapons proudly, as an affirmation of my right to defend self, family, and country.
“The idea of voluntarily surrendering arms would have been disgusting to them, as an abject revocation of their responsibilities.”
“Molon Labe”
King Leonidas at Battle of Thermopylae
“Molon Labe”
– Leonidas-I, September 480 BC, Thermopylae Greece
Translates to something like “Come and get them.” in ancient Greek.
Translates to something like “From my cold dead fingers.” in modern Americanish.
Simple, I am compensating for not being bullet proof, for not having the strength of 10 men or the ability to run faster than a speeding bullet. The simple fact is I am getting older and I accept the reality that my time is coming when I won’t be able to go toe to toe with a younger assailant. So I suppose I am preparing for that one moment that we all hope never comes, and for most of us probably never will… but like insurance on a car or my health, my gun is my insurance I can survive an assault from a criminal.
I am compensating for the fact that I’m not a lifelong student of martial arts. As well as a lack of claws, poison skin and a hard shell.
This is the best comment thread EVER!!!!
I guess I started compensating after I realized I’d made this far because I only thought I was bulletproof and invisible.
I’m compensating for the fact that I don’t yet have all the guns I want.
Most women who want to be armed are compensating for the fact that the criminal justice system seems to have an overwhelming desire to insure that they (the women) will find themselves in an impossible situation with a wholly unreasonable and overbearing thug with no respect for her rights.
A liberal woman will feel sorry for the thug and all of the societal injustices he’s had to suffer thus causing him to lash out at all of those women in the unwashed masses living outside of her gated community.
A conservative woman will say to heck with political correctness and carry a gun.
Political Correctness regarding guns and women; It is indeed preferable that we find a woman dead in an alley strangled by her own stocking, than to have to waste good police time filling out forms as she explains how her assailant died from multiple gunshot wounds.
And never forget, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
BTW: Women, if you ever do find you have to defend yourself against an attacker, make certain that when you are reporting any incident that you DO NOT CALL THE POLICE! Call for Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The 911 operator will call the police as well, but you will have documentation that when the danger passed, your first concern was for the Criminal Thug who attacked you. This will be important when his family sues you for wrongful death or some such.
I am compensating for a decreasing civil society. For a government that does nothing to stop criminals from coming to this country. For allowing criminals to walk the streets when they should have been removed from society or deported. I am compensating for the existence of the ACLU and the Progressive Criminal Party (which was once known as the democratic party) and their Progressive Criminal policies that favor criminal rights over victim rights. I am compensating for legal decisions that state that the police are not obligated to come to my aide, or anyone else’s aide. I am compensating for government policies that pit races and cultures against each other. I am compensating for the fact that ‘dead’ is a permanent condition. I would rather let the good Lord pick that time rather than some sub-human semi-feral animal that walks and talks.
I’m compensating for being an arthritic 67 year old & unable to physically confront a 20 or 30-something miscreant who wants to violently take my property or my life. Aside from that, I’m not compensating for anything other than the fact that the 2nd amendment gives me the right to bear arms and defend myself.
As a matter of fact I do have a small penis. Maybe that’s why I have small guns!
Like a Glock 36, A Sig P238. But I can’t explain the Remington 870 or the AK47.
I am compensating for the fact that, as much as possible, I want to decide when to be an organ donor. No criminal should any input into when or where I volunteer for that status.
I’m compensating for not being Chuck Norris.
Or Neo…
Or Legolas…
Or Yoda…
I can do a fair Bruce Willis though. But his characters were also armed.
“Too young to die and too old to get my ass kicked”
Hmmm. I have an absurdly huge penis and a collection of about 200 guns.
Obviously I’m compensating for something, but I can’t imagine what.
Seriously.
Oh, and let’s not forget my (more modest) motorcycle collection. That’s supposed to be compensation for some shortcoming, too, isn’t it?
i’m compensating for the failure of the federal government to meet its constitutional requirements
i’m specifically compensating for my terrible aim by having a 12-gauge on hand to deal with intruders or anything else (coyotes, rattlers, etc…) that could do harm to our property and family
I’m compensating for those who don’t own guns.
An excellent set of comments!
I’m compensating for the fact I have three ruptured discs in my back and I can barely walk, never mind fight off a determined attacker. That, and given the 0bama economic world of Fundamental Change, more and more radical revolutionaries seemed to have decided it’s far easier to take, than to earn.
I’m compensating for the nutjobs who want to take over my world without my consent.
I am compensating for the regressives questioning my “need” to carry, by pointing out that it is called the Bill of Rights not the Bill of Needs.
I am compensating for the fact that somewhere between 25 and 61, my Tae Kwan Do became Tae Kwan Dont (the snap kick throws my knees out). Oh, and I decided that if an attacker was close enough to kick he was too close….
Compensation for lost youth, many years of paying little or no attention to self-defense training, and the fact that I never could run very fast or, for that matter, far. I just don’t have what it takes to wait out the minutes before the police arrive. If ever forced to defend myself I need to accomplish the task quickly and decisively – in mere seconds.
I’m compensating for being old, fat, slow, white, and female, all of which makes me a target in parking garages and city streets late at night. Hmm. I guess you might say I’m compensating for not even having a penis.
Compensating? Well, with my long guns, at 100 yds I try to take any wind into account and compensate accordingly. To be truthful at 65 yrs and looking through iron sights it sometimes takes 2, 3 rds to get it on center or close thereby.
That’s about the only compensating this religion/gun clinging old feller does.
An aside – as I get older the more I appreciate Sinatra’s “I did it my way”, oh yeah!
I am compensating for a lack of deterrence in our legal system. (Not that I have a big problem with our wonderful country and its freedoms.) While I choose not to own a gun myself, I am glad that I *potentially* own a gun. In my rural area, probably more do than don’t. It makes for some very nervous and tentative burglars — and there aren’t many of them.
My lack of a taxpayer-funded, 24 hour, armed security detail.
I’m conpensating for the fact that, well, those targets (be they paper, plastic or predator) aren’t going to put holes in themselves!
I’ve never carried before, but considering the state of the union and the fact that I’m getting on in years; I might just start.
I am compensating for the fact my family and I have not been assiged a Secret Service detail, and we cannot afford armed bodyguards to do the carrying for us.
I’m compensating for the fact that I cannot throw a rock at 1400 feet per second.
I am compensating for poverty. I can’t afford a bodyguard to carry my gun like Sarah Brady does.
I’m compensating for the fact that the nearest cop is 20 miles and at least 30 or more minutes away from me and I cannot afford round the clock bodyguards and security.
I’m compensating for living close to Oakland.
I’m compensating for the fact I don’t live in Rainbow Land.
I’m compensating for Federal Housing laws that bring Oakland
Crime to my town.
I’m compensating for the policies of the left with my right to keep and bear arms.
I’m compensating for the fact that my sheep go unarmed and the wolves are many and may come at any time.
I’m a sheepdog. It’s what I do.
Orion
I’m compensating for my penis. Oh, it’s not small. It’s Huuuuuuuuuuge. I’m just afraid African poachers will hunt it down, carry it off, and sell it to Chinese businessmen as a virility medicine. Hey, it’s done wonders for my sex life.
Hah. I’m just kidding. There’s no way those skinny African poachers could carry that thing. I only keep the guns around to shoot houseflies and television sets when the broadcast news is on.
I’m prepared to bet that my guns, Harley, and H2 Hummer have no relation to the size of my You know,wink, wink. Unfortunately the wimpy liberals don’t have the juevos to suggest such to my face and are robbing me of some easy money.
I’m compensating for the fact that, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
I’m compensating for windage and elevation.
I’m compensating for the fact that I can’t kill an attacker at 7 yards with my penis.
Because the last time I grabbed my pecker in a gunfight, it was awkward.
Dare I declare this the thread winner? I think so!
I’m compensating for barrel lift…
I’m compensating because I never saw an after action report documenting how a penis of any size won a gunfight.
It’s not that people who spout such nonsense have no clue. They know exactly what their goal is. It’s the same mindset people who wield the “compensating for” nonsense use when observing someone with a fast car– an attempt to shame or otherwise beguile someone out of something, rather than aspire to it themselves.
Well, reading this thread was about as much fun as I’ve had in a while on these here intartubes.
Unfortunately, I live in the People’s Republic of KKKalifornia, where they are about to ban OPEN carry (WTF??!?!??!), and, unless you are a Hollywood celebrity, your chances of obtaining a CCW permit are slim and none . . . and Slim just left the building.
I used to carry (Walther PPK .380 ACP). Given the trajectory of society, I’m thinkin’ it might be worth risking the possible bust against having the Walther there when, as my dear Daddy used to say, “the cheese gets binding.”
I am compensating fact that when a robber shoved a gun in my face I didn’t have a gun with me to blow his brains out…Police did nothing, so now it is up to me to take care of myself!
I’m compensating for all the bleating, unarmed prey out there (aka liberals) whose ubiquity encourages predation.
Hey ‘Social Safety Net’ proponents, what are you compensating for?
Do you feel incapable of providing for yourself?
I smiled at all the comments, but I am not compensating for anything. Instead I am appreciating the blood of all those who have fallen guaranteeing my constitutional right to bear arms.(This would include my dad KIA 8 April 1967)
They are compensating for being to afraid to speak out against the Drug War which is used every day against them.
I’m compensating with a S&W Model 19 .357 for the fact it shoots .38 as well. It’s cheaper and doesn’t have the .357 nasty tendency to tear your arm off when fired repeatedly at the pistol range.
I’m compensating for the fact that I wasn’t born on the planet Krypton, ain’t nearly faster than a locomotive, and can’t leap tall buildings in a single bound.
I’m compensating for my penis. If I could kill bad guys at 30 feet with my penis, I wouldn’t need a handgun. Alas, that is not the case. Which is not to say that it doesn’t have its uses–it does. But self-defense is not one of them.
I’m compensating for the cop who told me to “try and get some sleep” after the next door neighbors party friends took two shots at my house driving away at 230 in the morning. Oh, yeah, they didn’t even detain them after they said “no we didn’t”.
if it’s pink and sparkly, is it compensating for a boy, or for toys? just asking.
Compensating for my overwhelming preference for listening to someone else beg for their life rather than begging for my own.
I love life. I compensate to counter those who do not.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-charinez-jefferson-timothy-jones-pregnant-teen-chicago-southwest-side-killing-shooting-20110822,0,4708681.story
I’m compensating for the fact that liberal judges allow dangerous thugs to walk the streets after only short prison sentences.
What are amateur psychologists compensating for with their Big Government?
I’m compensating for the fact that beating a mugger to death with my bare hands would leave too damn many forensic traces.
When an anti-gunner tried to cite Freud on the gun-penis association, gun rights scholar Don Kates cited another Freud passage to the effect that: “Freud
associates retarded sexual and emotional development not with gun ownership, but (pg.14) with fear and loathing of weapons.”
[p. 14 at: http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/115kat.pdf
Unfortunately, Kates did not include the cited passage, and the referenced text is not easy to get hold of. Anyone have “S. Freud & D. Oppenheim, Dreams in Folklore (1958)”? Kates says the relevant passage is on page 33.
I’m compensating for the fact that there are a lot of people out there who are far crazier than I am.
I’m compensating for the fact a life time of practicing martial arts ruined my knees for running away. And blocking bullets doesn’t work…
My wife, on the other hand, carries because she says the smell of Hoppe’s makes her man frisky.
Seriously, I’ve carried since I turned 21 and three times having a gun saved me and the others I was with. In all three cases, I and those I was with would have been seriously hurt or killed if I had to go hand to hand. My wife would have probably lost a baby. Martial arts does help when you are grossly outnumbered, out armed, or 8 months preggers.
Yeah, when you are outnumbered that ‘one shot’ with a 15min reload is a real problem.
I’m compensating for the fact that I’m too old and slow for “fight or flight”, but I am a fairly accurate marksman.
I’m compensating for the fact I don’t trust my local law enforcement agencies to do their job.
For my complete and inexplicable inability to throw a rock 1100fps.
I’m compensating for the potential that someone may feel their “right” to inflict their will on me or mine supersedes our right to live unmolested.
To quote Tamara Keel — “…Even if the police are right there, it might not do me any good. Heck, I might not do me any good. But, dammit, I am going to try. ….the least I can do is go out on my feet. I’m not going to wait for the coup de grace ; I’m not going get in the abductor’s car; I’m not going to comply with their demands; I’m not going gently.
I ain’t goin’ out like that.”
I’m compensating for a time in my life when I felt completely helpless.
I vowed to never again allow myself to be in such a situation, whenever I have the opportunity to prevent it. A gun is not a magic wand that will prevent such a thing from happening again, much in life is not in my control, which I accept. But where I can add control, or an edge, I will. A gun is just one way of many to do that.
I’m compensating for the mentally impaired, social misfit, moron, or simply evil bad dudes that haven’t the moral or ethical boundaries to control themselves.
With my firearm, I can level the playing field . . . pun intended!
Ten years ago I could still bench 300 lbs. I can’t do that any more. So it’s conceal-carry.
I’m compensating for the fact that anything the left is so desperate to convince me I should feel bad about having, must be something that it is very important that I have and know how to use. “Without my gun, I am not a free man”. I’m compensating for a system that every day pushes to make me a slave. – Not happening.
I’m compensating for the fact I have yet to master mind control.
I am compensating for the fact that the bad guys are not being reformed in prison and too often come out more angry and evil than when they first went into prison and have learned that witnesses to their crimes are a bad thing for them.
Compensating for a tyrannical government that wants all its “subjects” disarmed and defenseless, while it has, and will never, be required to provide for anyone’s safety.
Something that I always wonder about, in regard to realities expressed by the “minutes away when every second counts” and “I can’t carry a whole cop” lines.
Do the people who tell us we should leave our personal self-defense to the “experts” really realize what they are saying? There’s a term for the kind of polity where the police really are so numerous and ubiquitous that they can prevent most undesirable things from happening… … … it’s called a “police state”. I suspect that most of our statists wouldn’t be happy to find themselves in a real police state.
I suspect that most of our statists wouldn’t be happy to find themselves in a real police state.
I would suggest that quite a few of them expect to be the ones telling the police whom to oppress, so they figure they’d be just fine. The reality, however, is likely to be far different, and far more unpleasant, than they imagine….
The reality is they’ll be among the first up against the wall. Hmmmm, yes I think we’ve seen this show before…
Love this thread – lots of great answers, but before we get too liberal with labels (“snotty liberals” this and “leftists” that), I feel compelled to point out that I know many people whose political views are left of center and are very pro-gun. Yeah, anti-gun people tend to be liberal, but having lived in a very liberal place (Boulder, CO), I can say that not enough liberals are anti-gun to make for a fair generalization.
It’s important to make a distinction because labels are divisive and can push people in the middle one way or another.
So for me, maybe I’m compensating for a system that has been sufficiently polarized by extremists on the right and the left to make only the worst sorts of politicians electable and destabilize the entire political, economic, and social structures of our nation. Divided we fall.
It may be that not every liberal is anti-gun, but damn near every anti-gunner is a liberal.
There are more pro-gun liberals than you realize. It’s just that our conservative RKBA friends don’t stand up for us–thanks to polarized politics–when anti-gun people take away our jobs or mug us socially for being out.
So most of us stay closeted.
I never did.
I’m compensating for the sheriff being at least 45 minutes away when you need them now. Also for the fact the sheriff said to drop the bag off at the main highway because they weren’t going to respond even if we called. Finally since SCOTUS has ruled twice that the police aren’t required to protect you I’ll use my guns to protect my family and I.
I am compensating for the way my government has forgotten the rights granted to me in the constitution .
I am compensating for the fact that I live in a rural area and our police officers are off from Friday evening until Monday morning.
I am compensating for fact that far to many people have forgotten that one of the first things HItler did after he came into power was disarm the populace.
Other than that- I just happen to like knowing I have an option- aside from submission and acceptance of actions by those who have no concern over my well being.
I live in Annapolis, MD and used to work in Washington, DC. (I can carry a gun in neither my state nor the district, BTW.) I once caught a ride home from work with a lefty friend of mine. He’s a big guy; he played football at the Naval Academy. Me? I’m 5’0″ tall, blond, and a girl. So my macho friend decided to take a shortcut through DC. I’m getting more and more nervous as we’re in worse and worse neighborhoods. He looks at me and says, “None of this would bother me if I knew none of these people had guns.” Well, yes, one-on-one, he’d have a fighting chance if the other guy wasn’t carrying. Me, the odds aren’t so good. A good reason to carry, of course. I prefer now to stay at home in Annapolis with my gun-toting husband.
No laser vision. Everyone in my family’s got it, but not me. Astigmatism, I can’t focus the beam, and when I try it with glasses I melt them.
So I need a gun, since I can’t persuade any smug, effeminate leftists to go around with me and throw themselves in front of an assailant’s bullet.
Stupid, dysfunctional laser vision
im compensating for the fact that cops cannot protect us, the govt refuses to help us and will enslave us and that there special interest groups who fight against the rights of the innocent to protect themselves, while arguing the criminals has some sort of special right or even a moral imperitive to steal and kill at will. better to be tried by 12 then carried by 6……that and the chicks ;0P
I am compensating for being partially- but permanantly- disabled and unable and unwiling to run away when confronted by some undereducated, ignorant, drug or liquer fueled, flash mobbing, neanderthall thug[s] who thinks he/she has the right, by sheer force of ferocity or numbers- or both- to do me or mine bodily harm, while the police are busy elsewhere because they are NOT here to protect us from ceime, (So says several courts!).
I am compensating forthe Liberal Mental Disfunction that says I don’t have the right or need to protect myself.
I am compensating for being one human who chooses to do what is morally right and kill the SOB who tries to assault me.
Pull the trigger ’till it goes ‘click’ then reload and repeat. When the cops ask, “Why did you shoot each of them five times?” you say “Because they didn’t back away fast enough, and I ran out of ammo…”
I’m compensating for my bad eyesight, so I do not own a rifle or a handgun.
My 20-gauge Mossberg scattergun, on the other hand…
I have a CCW and don’t own a gun.
I’s still trying to figure out what that means I am compensating for.
(I need to compensate for procrastination?)
What I need is to read the book and see what is recommended for women with limited resources (no Glock or Sig Sauer in my future).
Look into the Bersa handguns. You get some good bang for your buck … I paid just over $300 for my Bersa UC9 at a local gun show. I think the retail price is a tad higher. I have very small and not very strong hands, but this gun fits me well and the slide is easy enough for me to operate. I just need to spend a little time loading the magazine to get my thumbs stronger.
FYI Keltec used to make a nice reliable small 9mm, are they still around and reasonably priced?
Bersa good, KelTec good (with the caveat that my experience is mostly with their smaller P32 and P3AT–I’ve shot their 9mm once or twice but don’t own one.)
I recommend the S&W Bodyguard .380. Small, lightweight, laser sight built-in and easy to load.
If you get a S&W .38 revolver you don’t have to worry about your thumbs.
Hey — thanks! I’m getting the nudge
Will go try them out.
Look at buying online from CDNN, AIM Surplus, GunsAmerica, et cetera.
Consider buying used. In my neck of the woods, you can get a good police-surplus Glock for only a little more than a new Bersa.
Best of luck.
http://www.e-gun.net/forumThread.asp?threadID=20105&p=1&s=1
Looked at these yesterday…a good buy for $179.
Kel-tec PF9 or Kahr CW9
I’m compensating for the fact that I don’t own a Corvette! You know the old joke…
I’m compensating for the fact that my 50% of my small town’s ARMED police force (Newtown Borough Pennsylvania, 2005-ish?) was taken out single-handed by an UNARMED punk wearing a HOSPITAL GOWN and HANDCUFFS….
Cops are good for dougnuts, and pensions.
Gunfights, not so much.
I’m compensating for the fact that:
I cant say “no one should have those kinds of weapons, except the police and the Military” and then have an armed cadre (who just happen to share my political views) step in and enforce the above statement, against people who DONT.
I’m compensating for when I might go canoeing down the Cahulawassee River and someone I meet along the way feels compelled to tell me I “gotta purty mouth.”
I’m compensating for being in the smallest minority in the world: an individual.
If owning a big gun like a Desert Eagle is compensating for a weenie weenie, what are the owners of 2″ S&W snubbies compensating for?
I’m compensating the companies of Smith & Wesson, Winchester, Browning, and Remington for their manufacture of quality firearms.
I am compensating for having to hip carry a high capacity 9MM by using Corbon 124 grain loads….oh, and for only having a .38 special back up. (I compensate for giving up my .44 by loading corbons in it also.)
One day a few years ago I had to use one of them due to three loose land mines on legs (with their switches set to armed) of which their owner said “They were good dogs (pit bulls) who would never have attacked you unless you did something to make them mad!” (like walking on the street) Advice? Stay calm in a hurry and FRONT sight press as Col. Jeff would have said….Shoot for the head and hit the facial mask as they charge and keep shooting until they are down and dead and don’t turn your back on any nasty thing dog or human. OH YES, AND give all such owners of deadly “good dogs” a complete tune up.
I’m compensating for the fact that I’m a small white woman of middling years and DC is right across the river *shudder*…
I’m compensating for the fact that so many people do not understand the two letter word
NO
“You don’t need a gun until you need one badly.”
Been there.
Did that.
Twice.
No bodies, just me and “them” scared. “Them” more than me.
That’s a good thing…
WTF “Newtown Borough Pennsylvania”….and the fact that your lone officer is a medical wreck. Damn good man, but….
And don’t forget your coyote problem either! Hutch, C.S.Pa
I’m 6’4″ tall and go about 360lbs, which is not all located in my @$$.
Not too many folks of ill intent tend to bother me in ones or twos, but the problem in the last couple years has been that in fives, sevens, and nines, they evidently feel quite motivated to give me a sporting try.
While I do try to be circumspect regarding locations and times of day, it has not been possible to avoid these situations.
The first time, I got good and thumped by a group of seven or eight bored urban youth. If I had not managed to grab a good-sized rock while being down and kicked and then manage to get up and use it to put down a couple of them, I’m not sure I’d be writing this. As it was, I spent six nights in the hospital and have a shoulder that will never be all the way right again.
The second time I was approached, I casually removed a Springfield XD from my waist holster and just let it hang down at my side. The urban youths remembered someplace else that they needed to be.
Of the first group that attacked me, three ended up being convicted of the juvenile equivalent aggravated assault. The three spent a cumulative total of 14 months incarcerated, and that’s only because the oldest was a repeater and got nine months.
Both of the mothers of the youths that I hit with the rock during the first attack have sued me. I won both, but it cost me about $6000 in legal bills to do so.
I have no desire to end anyone’s life, but I am also under no illusions as to what can happen – even if one is careful.
I will continue to carry – legally – simply to even the field when necessary.
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