How do you respond to people thinking your are paranoid?

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I don't carry a sign that I am carrying a firearm at all times. However I have gotten into discussions with people concerning firearms and they have expressed that they feel people that are 'gun nuts' are just being paranoid. They never have any statistics to back up their stance unlike 'gun nuts' statistics showing crime stats and the very real possibility to be a target of criminals nearly anytime and any place no matter how strictly they try to avoid dangerous places. Call it what you will, but if whatever drives my reasons to carry a firearm is ever the deciding factor of making it home at night or not I will be ever thankful for that right.
 
No sign here either, but My gun is always by my side (except in the shower) and within arms length while sleeping. I don't go to bars, so no problem there. My gun is part of my daily attire, and without it I would feel like the king in his new clothes (naked in case you don't remember). LOL
 
paranoid? I would respond I'm prepared. Then ask them ; Can you defend yourself against an armed assailant or home invasion or would you just call 911? I have a few fire extinguishers around the house. Am I paranoid of fire or just prepared incase something happens?
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Sooner to have and never need, then desperately need and not have. Just another tool in one's tool box of life.
 
How do you respond to people thinking your are paranoid?

Mostly I just give them a look of disdain. I don't need their approval unless I want to dump a truckload of bs on their lawn.


Approximate quote from Will Rogers, "It ain't paranoia if the bastards are really out to gitcha" .
 
Tell them to Google "Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom," and then get back to you on the paranoia thing. I hope for the best, but always plan for the worst. You never know where trouble might find you.
 
I recite the firearm carriers' version of Pascal's wager: if I carry every day of my life and nothing ever happens, I have lost nothing - if you never carry and something does happen, you have lost everything.

Then I tell them I don't care what they think.
 
Ask them, "do you have:

fire extinguishers
home insurance
car insurance
life insurance
spare tire and jack?"

Those are all preparedness items that you hope you never need to use, but will be glad to have them if do need them. The gun, and the training to use it, is just another facet of preparation.

Then have them watch the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition bit.
 
jeff357 said:
How do you respond to people thinking you're paranoid?
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First, I make 'em strip to prove they're not wired. Assuming they're not, then I demand to know who sent them. If they are though, sorry, I can't answer that question on a public forum. :lol:

jeff357 said:
I don't carry a sign that I am carrying a firearm at all times. However I have gotten into discussions with people concerning firearms and they have expressed that they feel people that are 'gun nuts' are just being paranoid. They never have any statistics to back up their stance unlike 'gun nuts' statistics showing crime stats and the very real possibility to be a target of criminals nearly anytime and any place no matter how strictly they try to avoid dangerous places. Call it what you will, but if whatever drives my reasons to carry a firearm is ever the deciding factor of making it home at night or not I will be ever thankful for that right.
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Seriously though, I assume that the discussions you get into with such people don't include you disclosing that you're carrying, right? If you are disclosing to casual acquaintances, you're doing it wrong. Assuming you're not though, I'd just forget about it. You can't win everybody over, and if casual, friendly conversation doesn't make any headway with them, then shrug your shoulders and quit worrying about what others think of you. If you ever need your weapon in a gunfight, chances are they're going to hear about it on the news or through the grapevine, and assuming you won the fight, that will "say" enough about why you carry. If you never get in a gunfight, count your blessings. Those who you might've wasted your efforts to convince how prudent and prepared you are will go to their graves blissfully ignorant of the fact that you were exactly the kind of person they taught their kids to be afraid of. What they don't know won't hurt them. Who cares what they think anyway?

And welcome to the forums. :biggrin:

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What do I tell them? "After you have been at the wrong end four times in your life, feel free to get back to me about being paranoid." :cool:
 
Only my closest friends know that I carry; and they almost all carry too. It is my right to be armed and am not paranoid because I am armed and know that I have the means of self-defense.There might not be an even distribution of had guys, but they are everywhere and always have been. I live in a very safe rural area but there is still violent crime. If I never have a problem, being armed and safe costs nothing. For those who chose not to carry and are confronted with a dangerous situation it could be very costly.
 
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What do I tell them? "After you have been at the wrong end four times in your life, feel free to get back to me about being paranoid." :cool:
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Hey SR40c, did your last avatar beat the crap out of your new avatar?
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I open carry, so I do carry a sign around, and I have not been in a discussion with someone thinking I'm paranoid.

Though if I do...I'll probably quickly look over my shoulder...tell them, "they're here...I gotta go..." and briskly trot away...

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Firefighterchen said:
I open carry, so I do carry a sign around, and I have not been in a discussion with someone thinking I'm paranoid.

Though if I do...I'll probably quickly look over my shoulder...tell them, "they're here...I gotta go..." and briskly trot away...

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Florida isn't a truly open carry state so we can't do that except under certain circumstance, but a shop t-shirt is a dead giveaway. Or an NRA t-shirt. As we don't hide the fact that we do handle guns, most everyone expects that we are carrying. And we do get customers that way. Paranoid, nope. Prepared, yep!

Got to go 'cause the choppers are circling.:crazy_pilot:
 
I've never had to defend my self-defense beliefs to anyone in person. Never had a conversation with an anti. Strange.

Maybe because I live in a pro gun state, and quit attending college 35 years ago, I escaped socialist doctrine now taught in our so called institutions of higher learning. We had plenty of civil issue based, "lively" discussions at the professors' insistence, which often resulted in raised voices, but no present day discussions of leftist buffoonery.

I lived in Metro areas for a small portion of my life, but never had the pro-gun, anti-gun conversation with anyone.

What a pathetic, sheltered life I've followed? :lol:

Lucky, probably. If it happened, I would have dismissed them as fast as they dismissed me. Then on to whatever business was at hand.
 
Why should I waste my time and breath with an answer? I really could not care less what anyone else thinks and if they think I am paranoid, that is their problem not mine--if they insist and demand answers I will tell them to pound salt--that should do it. With friends like that who needs enemies and, being paranoid, I find that this entire country is up for grabs and if they want to just koombayah through life at this time--have at it--just stay the hell away from me.
 
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