Every once in a while someone will question your masculinity for carrying a gun.
I guess by Paul’s standards our Marines and cops aren’t real men because they carry guns, right? And I guess Spartacus wasn’t a real man because he led a slave rebellion with swords.
Are you gonna tell the Black Panthers, our original open carriers, that they are not real men? Was MLK not a real man?
“As I found researching my new book, Gunfight, in 1956, after King’s house was bombed, King applied for a concealed carry permit in Alabama. The local police had discretion to determine who was a suitable person to carry firearms. King, a clergyman whose life was threatened daily, surely met the requirements of the law, but he was rejected nevertheless. At the time, the police used any wiggle room in the law to discriminate against African Americans.”
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-winkler/mlk-and-his-guns_b_810132.html
Is the senior citizen that shoots a burglar not a real man? What about Seal Team Six? Should Osama Bin Laden have been punched to death instead of shot to death?
By the way, gun ownership is becoming more popular among women, do you accuse them of not being real women? Or are women supposed to be damsels in distress waiting for their knight in shinning armor?
And aren’t liberals the ones that tell us that gender is a social construction, that it doesn’t exist, that your little boy wants to play with dolls and your little girl with trucks?
If so, why the “real men” argument?
Frankly, I don’t carry to be a real man, I carry to be a FREE man. Slaves are not allowed to carry any weapons, free men keep and bear arms.
Poem found on the Internet that sums up firearm ownership for me and, I’m sure, many more:
-I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
-I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.
-I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
-I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry.
I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
-I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.
-I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because, unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
-I don’t carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.
That was beautiful, thanks for sharing.