Disposable Heart
Grandmaster
Thanks Finity for your good post.
I guess some people will gladly shoot and kill anybody when they legally can, some others like myself will wait the very last moment to shoot.
I guess you have to find the right balance bewteen the two.And I understand that you can never be sure if its the right thing to do when its happening so fast.Only afterwards you will now if you did thing.
Whoa whoa whoa, it's not a matter of jumpin' at the bit to draw, shoot, etc... It's not a matter of us being "Rambo" or desiring to be violent.
The core of the matter is that we want to defend ourselves, nothing more, nothing less. The world isn't the honorable, John Wayne swaggering "Fill your hand, you SOB", parley filled place that sometimes we wish it to be and in that, think it to be. There is no warning. There is no honor. The first time I was jumped, I had a steak knife pointed at me. There is no yelling at them to drop it. No, there is only the action of compliance or defense. Second time mugged, the guy had enough cuts on him that he passed out. Tried sueing me in civil court, lost horribly (but I still have the bills today).
When it comes to my life, I do not horse around. I guess when you have poor genetics like me you want to defend them to the best you can to have that slim shot at furthing those lines. That other person, the one trying to get in, cares NOTHING for you. They hold no goodwill, they can't be rehabilitated or reasoned with, they give no quarter. Most if not all people who have been jumped like me used to hate guns or thought along the "warning" method of defense. They changed their tune after their first fight.
Frankly, having needed to defend myself, I find it disgusting that someone thinks of me as a gung-ho, killer type. As for FlyGuy's opinion on the forum, so what. What a world this would be if everyone had the same opinion, but it would get boring quick. The world is a pretty fun place when folks disagree! But to insult me and others who would desire to defend themselves by pretty much calling us bloodthirsty because we don't live in the "safe" world you do is asinine.