The World Is A Dangerous Place

At the American Thinker today Victoria White Berger writes about the experience she and her husband had of buying their first gun, a .38 Special revolver. Her story can be found at Our First Gun. I would have pointed out that they should have obtained two guns, unless they were always together, and should have gotten their permits for concealed carry too. But baby steps, right?

It’s a .38 Special revolver. Up until one month ago, I had scant idea what such a gun looked like or could do. My husband eventually made the decision to get a gun, which surprised me a little as he is a very peaceable man. Yet, he is a lover of the U.S. Constitution: peaceable, but no fool. This week is our 30th anniversary. For our anniversary present, we bought the gun together.

We have talked about buying a gun over the past few years. We live in the South in a semi-rural area bordering the Gulf of Mexico. Traditionally, gun ownership is considered mostly normal here. It is by and large a quiet, working-class, family area, and nobody thinks of gun ownership as a threat to anyone but to those with evil intent.

However, the current reasons that many, many more are buying guns are not the past’s ‘regular’ reasons; nor were our own reasons, this week, in any way ‘regular.’ It was a scary decision, but we are not interested in being shot, molested, raped, or carted off from our home. We would rather take a stand for ourselves, for our lives. Our reluctance to submit to the growing tyranny in the United States has reached, if not our doorstep yet, a place in the core of our hearts. This is happening everywhere, to all sorts.

Isn’t it interesting how much firepower the FBI commands, and how they regularly and with impunity break down the doors of the common people now? Isn’t it curious how Joe Biden makes such a big noise about guns, but lives, travels, and sleeps in fortresses of one sort or another -- stationary or mobile?

We all have our reasons. In my case, I had had a revolver since 1976 but didn't carry it. A revolver is a good choice for a first gun, because they don't require as much maintenance.  Then 9/11/2001 happened and I realized that we were not safe. I came to realize that we had never been safe, that we were always our own first responders, and that we always need to carry our weapons with us. But that realization came over time.

In the meantime, please read Ms. Berger's experiences, and encourage your friends and acquaintances to at least think about getting some kind of self-defense training, possibly getting a gun. We pray we will never use it, but the normal state of the world is a dangerous place.