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Originally Posted by theking
Well...I personally do not know a single person that walks around in fear.
It does remind me of a story that has been told in various forms. A Highway Patrolman pulled over a man for excess speed. He noticed a pistol on the dash of the car. He reached in and took the pistol off of the dash and asked the man if he had anymore fire arms and if so hand them to him. The man reached into the dash and pulled out an Army Colt .45. semi automatic pistol. He then reached under his car seat and pulled out a .32 snub nose revolver. Then he reached inside his shirt and pulled out a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver with a four inch barrel. After that he reached down and pulled up his pants leg and removed a .25 semi automatic pistol from his right Wellington boot. The Officer asked...well is that it. The man said no...I have some weapons in the trunk. The officer said...lets see 'em.
The man exists his car and opened up the trunk...and in the trunk was a .12 gage pump shotgun... a .30.06 bolt action rifle with scope...an AR15...and a .22 Magnum semi auto rifle. The Officer said damn man do you legally own all of these weapons and the man answered in the affirmative...plus he had several weapons at his house. The Cop said who the hell are you afraid of and the man answered...Not a goddamn soul.
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sure. i hear you. we all pretty much go about our daily lives. i'm not trying to suggest my mom won't leave the house or travel, etc. but it's something we've chatted about.
but re: this thread and fear, for me, the author in the op hit the nail on the head with the honey bottle tweet, as much as i usually hate twitter battles and that nonsense. but it's exactly like the snowglobes, the fear is being forced upon us by knee-jerk government reaction(aries). freedoms have been replaced by devices to reduce the fear of terror. look how much money we've spent on it since 9/11, look how many government agencies and more have been created to handle the terror *threat*. that's a fear-based reaction.