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Carrying a Gun is a Civilized Act

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I'd just like to preface by saying that I hope to NEVER be put in the position of having to take another human being's life.  However, these are tense and dangerous times we live in (Thanks, obama!).  With all the talk of it being "open season" on cops and whites and the justifiable reaction to "lock and load" by those of us who refuse to be willing victims of this festering racial hatred, I thought it was time to dust this amazing piece off and share it again... WHN

 

 

 

“The Gun Is Civilization” By Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret)

 

 

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

 

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

 

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

 

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

 

handgun.jpg?w=246&h=300There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat – it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed.

 

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

 

Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

 

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

 

The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.

 

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation… And that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

 

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)

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Read, heed and forward.. This will only take 1 minute to read !
 
                                     
  
 
  
28th Amendment, 35 States and Counting
 
 
  
  
 
 
It will take you less than a minute to read this. If you agree, please pass it on.  It's an idea whose time has come to deal with this self serving situation:
  
 
 
Children of Congress members do not have to pay back their college student loans.
  
 
 
Staffers of Congress family members are also exempt from having to payback student loans.
  
 
 
Members of Congress can retire at full pay after only one term.
  
 
 
Members of Congress have exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed, under which ordinary citizens must live.
  
 
 
For example, they are exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment.
  
 
 
And as the latest example, they have exempted themselves from Healthcare Reform, in all of its aspects.
  
 
 
We must not tolerate an elite class of such people, elected as public servants and then putting themselves above the law.
  
 
 
I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent, or whatever.  The self-serving must stop.
  
 
 
Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon their states. 
It only takes 38 (of the 50) States 
to convene a Constitutional Convention.
  
 
 
IF???
Each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days most people in The United States of America will have the message.
  
 
 
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States   
  
 
 
Constitution:
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the Citizens of the United States ..."
  
 
 
You are one of my 20.
  
 
 
  
 
   
GOD BLESS AMERICA
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE...SOMEONE HAD TO PAY FOR IT
If you can read this...thank a teacher.
If you can read this in English...thank a veteran.
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

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Members of Congress can retire at full pay after only one term.

 

 

Q: Is it true that members of Congress, their staffers and their family members do not have to pay back their student loans?

A: Not true. Some congressional employees are eligible to have up to $60,000 of student loans repaid after several years — just like other federal workers. But that’s not the case for members of Congress or their families.

 

Q: Can members of Congress retire and receive their full pay after serving one term?

A: No. Only senators are eligible for a pension after one term, but it won’t be their full salary.

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/01/congressional-pensions-update/

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Q: Is it true that members of Congress, their staffers and their family members do not have to pay back their student loans?

A: Not true. Some congressional employees are eligible to have up to $60,000 of student loans repaid after several years — just like other federal workers. But that’s not the case for members of Congress or their families.

 

Q: Can members of Congress retire and receive their full pay after serving one term?

A: No. Only senators are eligible for a pension after one term, but it won’t be their full salary.

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/01/congressional-pensions-update/[/size]

Party pooper! ;)

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Q: Is it true that members of Congress, their staffers and their family members do not have to pay back their student loans?

A: Not true. Some congressional employees are eligible to have up to $60,000 of student loans repaid after several years — just like other federal workers. But that’s not the case for members of Congress or their families.

 

Q: Can members of Congress retire and receive their full pay after serving one term?

A: No. Only senators are eligible for a pension after one term, but it won’t be their full salary.

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/01/congressional-pensions-update/

 

 

Thanks Mark - you saved me the trouble - I get stuff like this all of the time and I wish people would fact check the allegations before sending it on.

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