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Friday, June 11, 2010

PEOPLE ASK WHY?

Why I Might Carry a Gun

My old grandpa said to me 'Son, there comes a time in every
man's life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin'
caps and usually it's when he becomes too old to take
an ass whoopin.'

I don't carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don't carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can
be a scary place.

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 because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old
age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere
tomorrow afternoon.

I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to
heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

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.

Police protection is an oxymoron.

Free citizens must protect themselves.

Police do not protect you from crime, they
usually just investigate the crime after it
happens and then call someone in to
clean up the mess.

Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young
to die and too old to take an ass whoopin'.....

(Author unknown - but obviously brilliant)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I also carry a gun because it turns the chicks on. No laughing matter, either. a lot of the girls love uniforms and the phallic symbolisim of the gun.

Anonymous said...

this was extremely well written and truthful. i agree 100%. thanks sjd

Anonymous said...

too bad its soooooo difficult in md to get a permit, otherwise id be right there to

Will B. said...

Here! Here! So well written, and thank god for the 2nd amendment!!!

Anonymous said...

Loved it and completely related to the concept although I am a woman. This poem makes sense. thanks