Also found on FB this morning

[mac56]

A psychological paradox:
that those without guns
do not live in fear,
while those with guns do.

[smirkymonkey]

1. Interesting and very true for the most part.

[RandomAccess]

23. Absolutely true in my case

I lived in the 'burbs and wasn't the least bit afraid. But when I moved out to the sticks, I felt that having a gun would be a good idea -- living so isolated from anyone around, even 911 was a lot further away. Mad dogs, snakes, coyotes, and goodness knows what else.

We moved back to the 'burbs after a decade or so, and I no longer feel the need for firearms.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. Would fear of first responders response time

Equal?

That is my reason for owning a hand gun.

[BSdetect]

3. What is your response time - to get to your gun safe, find the key or combination, load the gun ...

...... hope the invader/threat is not about to react as they see you reaching for a deadly weapon ....


Just wondering how that scenario makes you safer?

And let's assume you were not deeply asleep when you heard someone entering your home.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

4. Ridiculous

So your answer would be to not own a gun?

I can get to it quick enough that keeps my mind at ease.

Unless a deputy was near my house a 911 call would on average get them there in 15 to 20 minutes.

[2left4u]

11. Agreed

First off it's our right...just like free speech so it's not up for debate unless all our rights are suddenly up for grabs and interpretation.


"These (the armed forces) are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere....Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises."

Abraham Lincoln

[Shrike47]

16. All of the rights mentioned in the Constitution are up for interpretation and always have been.

There are limits and intpretations of free speech (yelling fire in a crowded theater when there is no fire), (political contributions are speech), limits on freedom from warrantless searches (officer safety), arguments about what constitutes due process. The right to bear arms in the Constitution seems to be tied to the need for a militia although the current Supreme Court sees the militia reference as suplusage.

It ain’t all cut and dried.

[2left4u]

20. Yep

Dancing on the fringes, hence why elections are important...at present it's cut and dried until the law is changed.

[2left4u]

21. Enough said

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/opinion/mom-gun-safety-intruder.html

[BSdetect]

13. You only hope you can get to it quick enough...

And what about the possible escalation factor?

You can have a gun as is your right. That is not the point.

Good luck if you ever have to use it.

[Rainbow Droid]

18. If you plan ahead you probably won't need luck.

[TNNurse]

6. I think if you look at the incidence of gun accidents in homes involving children,

those guns are not secure in the home.

[askyagerz]

7. Fear is fear

I'm not scared of my fellow man so am not living in any kind of fear. Therefore I have no reason to own a gun.
Only reason I would own a gun is if I had a farm or ranch that needed protected from predators or I was a hunter. But neither apply to me.

[billh58]

15. It seems to me

that the fear of needing a gun is the point of the OP.

[rgbecker]

5. It's the old chicken/egg question.

Somehow these folks are fearful enough to get a gun. They envision home invasions, robbers and killers stalking them and their families while being unprotected by the police. Then, once they get the gun, they have to worry about using it correctly and not accidentally killing their family members or friends or having it taken by unarmed intruder and used against them, up-scaling the entire episode.

And of course there is the drunken suicide, family argument or unhappy teenager. Kids getting hold of the weapons and playing around with their friends. How the NRA got to the insurance companies to not even ask if there are weapons in the house we'll never know.

Lots to be afraid of once there is a gun around the house.

[erronis]

12. That's interesting. The insurance companies can't ask about guns but do ask about dog breeds.

So did the NRA also convince the insurance mafia to fight payments for wrongful and/or accidental death and injury by gun?

Wow!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. So true.

I have never in my life felt I needed a gun. I don't have one. I don't live in fear. Funny how that is.

[Cryptoad]

9. Pretty wide brush,,,,,,,

most the GOP lives in fear whether they have a gun or not
on the other hand I know some liberal who have guns but do not live in fear?????

[Angry Dragon]

17. GOP fear their government, lie and cheat to become that government

and then you get a government that lies and cheats
becoming a government that you need to fear

[ffr]

10. And conservatives are fearful individuals

Liberals aren't fearful of the same things though, not on a daily basis and nowhere even remotely on the same level.

[erronis]

14. I have read that people on the conservative side of the spectrum seem to be more fearful.

Guess it's that "change" thing. Don't want to deal with changes in situation, people of different colors/religions. If they do travel overseas it's usually to enclaves of their same type.

[0rganism]

19. not sure about that - i don't have any guns but im plenty scared

it's not that easily separable.

[2left4u]

22. NY times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/opinion/mom-gun-safety-intruder.html

[mac56]

24. How many times are you planning to post the same article?

Just curious.

[2left4u]

25. I must be dumb

Twice

[Skittles]

27. LOL

anecdotal evidence is all they ever need

[guillaumeb]

26. Does the gun cause the fear,

or feed the fear?

Or both?