My Old Grandpa Once Told Me
Author unknown
Submitted by Jack
My old grandpa once told 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 hoopin'."
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.
Author Unknown (but obviously brilliant)
Final words of wisdom
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'.
Like I told my mother - when the police are away taking care of the law business and someone decides he wants me, my possessions, or harms my family.
The gun is the only thing that equals the playing field.
Ever notice the ones who want to have us lose our 2nd amendment rights of gun ownership have armed body guards. Wonder why that is?
About the author
Jack Montague, a disable New York City Police Office, is the past Grand Master of Fly Casting, and now serves as an instruction at Wolfglen fly fishing school in Punta Gorda Florida.