I recently saw this in a facebook post and thought it was well written and a means to explain stuff to those anti-gun folks that actually can think:

I stand behind you in line at the store with a smile on my face...and a gun under my shirt and you are none the wiser, yet you are safer for having me next to you. I won't shoot you. My gun won't pull it's own trigger. It is securely holstered with the trigger covered. It can't just go off. However, rest assured that if a lunatic walks into the grocery store and pulls out a rifle, I will draw my pistol and protect myself and my family and therefore protect you and your family. I may get shot before I can pull the trigger...but, I won't die in a helpless blubbering heap on the floor begging for my life or my child's life. No, if I die it will be in a pile of spent shell casings. I won't be that victim. I choose not to be. As for you, I don't ask you to carry a gun. If you are not comfortable, then please don't. But I would like to keep my right to choose to not be a helpless victim. There is evil in the world and if evil has a gun, I want one too... 

It's great...except none of us can carry.

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Good one! I just printed out 10 copies and will share them with some antis I know.

This is a wonderful post - and would work well in the 44+ states that citizens can carry in.

 

in NJ people would be like huh wut

very well stated!

It's great...except none of us can carry.

 

Was just about to write that...welcome to the People's Republic of NJ

It's great...except none of us can carry.

Considering how many ex-New Jerseyans are on this site... That is not entirely true.

My wife just posted this on FB - I love her.

I have read a lot of anti posts today and get the sense that they'd counter that this would just lead to more victims. The imbedded fear is that they don't want to be around a gun. At all. Period. Full stop.

 

To them, everything is an AR and it all needs to be banned.