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Any weapon with a clip that you can buy at a legal gun store in many states will be a semi Aut. Can you get a basic six shooter? sure. But most people don't carry them, they do use them for home defense. I won't discuss what I use for home defense, just that I have layers.
At the time of that incident I lived in Massachusetts. I was walking back from an event to my car in The Commons parking garage. That evening I carried a .45 S&W 1911. 9+1 clip is standard in Massachusetts. In fact, you could not get anything more than that legally. Each state can have their own laws about that. I don't carry a cute weapon. Cute won't get you out of a life or death situation.
The guy followed me to my car, and my car was the only one in that area. Like I said prior, I don't carry because I want to kill people. I in fact do things to avoid having to draw because I want to be sure of the intent of the person. He was willing to follow me around until I drew my weapon, which I didn't do until I knew I could not shake this guy.
I had to go through some therapy after that incident for a couple of reasons. I'm a fighter, and frankly, I didn't survive cancer twice to not go down without a fight. But even with that, there was some moral guilt I had to work through because when you draw, you also have to have intent, even if you do so legally.
I'm thankful my training helped me keep a cool head during that and I didn't fall apart. But I was rattled afterwards and got help to put it in perspective.
There are people who carry that you would have no clue; young ,old, male, female. They don't advertise it, they don't discuss it, they just do. No one would look at me and say, oh she carries, blah blah blah. Most people who carry are not not interested in breaking the law, or looking for a fight.
This guy was a domestic terrorist. He broke the law. If not with a gun it would have been with something else because breaking the law is not about the tool but about the person. If he had decided to rent a truck, fill it with explosives, and run that through a crowd of people and blew up the truck, would it have been any better? My answer is no. To me they're equality as bad.
If he decided to use pressure cookers and blow them up, would that be any better? No. And for what its worth, several stores took pressure cookers off the shelves in Mass for a time.
By whatever means, he did what he did and its ugly as hell. It makes me angry knowing that he did that to those people no matter how he did it.
But I wish people would not focus so handily on the weapon, but on the intent of the person behind it. ANYTHING can be a weapon.
At the time of that incident I lived in Massachusetts. I was walking back from an event to my car in The Commons parking garage. That evening I carried a .45 S&W 1911. 9+1 clip is standard in Massachusetts. In fact, you could not get anything more than that legally. Each state can have their own laws about that. I don't carry a cute weapon. Cute won't get you out of a life or death situation.
The guy followed me to my car, and my car was the only one in that area. Like I said prior, I don't carry because I want to kill people. I in fact do things to avoid having to draw because I want to be sure of the intent of the person. He was willing to follow me around until I drew my weapon, which I didn't do until I knew I could not shake this guy.
I had to go through some therapy after that incident for a couple of reasons. I'm a fighter, and frankly, I didn't survive cancer twice to not go down without a fight. But even with that, there was some moral guilt I had to work through because when you draw, you also have to have intent, even if you do so legally.
I'm thankful my training helped me keep a cool head during that and I didn't fall apart. But I was rattled afterwards and got help to put it in perspective.
There are people who carry that you would have no clue; young ,old, male, female. They don't advertise it, they don't discuss it, they just do. No one would look at me and say, oh she carries, blah blah blah. Most people who carry are not not interested in breaking the law, or looking for a fight.
This guy was a domestic terrorist. He broke the law. If not with a gun it would have been with something else because breaking the law is not about the tool but about the person. If he had decided to rent a truck, fill it with explosives, and run that through a crowd of people and blew up the truck, would it have been any better? My answer is no. To me they're equality as bad.
If he decided to use pressure cookers and blow them up, would that be any better? No. And for what its worth, several stores took pressure cookers off the shelves in Mass for a time.
By whatever means, he did what he did and its ugly as hell. It makes me angry knowing that he did that to those people no matter how he did it.
But I wish people would not focus so handily on the weapon, but on the intent of the person behind it. ANYTHING can be a weapon.
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