Somewhere in the past I have several posts telling why I carry a handgun. You are free to go looking for them if you like, but Mike McDaniel has a pretty comprehensive list at the American Thinker today entitled Why I carry a handgun, and you should too. McDaniel first offers up the usual reasons most of us have:
*Evil exists and may confront anyone at any time and any place.
*Evil exists to destroy all that is kind, good and loving.
*God exists and expects me to protect myself, those I love and those unable to protect themselves.
*Self-defense is a God-given, natural, unalienable right.
*The lives of the innocent—friend or stranger—are worth far more to me and to a just society than the lives of vicious criminals and terrorists.
*By carrying a handgun, I honor the foresight and wisdom of the Founders in writing the Second Amendment, which acknowledges, but does not create, the right to keep and bear arms.
*The Constitution does not bestow liberty; it restrains government from infringing on our liberties. Arms have always been necessary to remind government of that.
Not only does the amorphous term "evil" exist, but it is actually a person variously called "the ruler of this world, powers, and principalities." Fortunately, Christ has sealed a lot of us through baptism, so that the Evil One cannot "possess" us, but it is human nature to listen to his calls, and some chose to act on those calls. We see it in the news all the time. These are enough reasons, but McDaniel has more specific reasons as well.
*A government that labels half of the nation “white supremacists,” “insurrectionists,” “domestic terrorists,” “racists” and sends federal law enforcement to spy on and harass parents objecting to the sexual and political indoctrination of their children makes plain the wisdom of the Founders in writing the First and Second amendments.
*So does a government that throws open our borders, admitting known terrorists, violent criminals the diseased and criminally insane.
*It demonstrates, as nothing else can, that I am the master of my government not its slave, that elected officials work for me and only with my continuing consent.
*It reminds politicians every iota of power they possess is on temporary loan from me and every other American on condition of good, lawful behavior. They hate that.
*I am a free man, and no evidence of that fact is more meaningful and convincing than that I own and carry the firearms I prefer.
McDaniel here offers a powerful list of reasons that he carries a firearm and thinks you and I should too. The one that struck me, again, was one I have stated in the past. The government that does not trust its citizens with a firearm is not to be trusted. One thing I will add to McDaniel's list is that, though evil exists, and one must always be prepared to defend oneself, one must also pray to never need to fire that weapon at another human being.
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