My question is this.

Why does having a view similar to the NRA statement automatically make you an NRA supporter?

I do not support the NRA because I think they are zealots just like everyone else but I did grow up going to a school district where a lot of our teachers and coaching staff were ex military or hunters and there were always firearms in or around the school. We even had training days every few months where students that were doing well could go across the street to the National Guard armory and learn about gun safetey and handling and also get to fire off rounds in the indoor range (with parental permission). For those students not able to attend this we had a yearly presentation put on by both the local Port Neches Police and National guardsman for awareness and handling.

I remember the day after the Columbine shooting we had someone call in a bombthreat to the school and before the students even knew we had teachers, the schools criminal justice students and people that lived in the surrounding neighborhoods of the school all on point alert and armed. Then the students were released in groups under armed escort to the guard armory where you could leave only after signing out.

I think it was well done and the entire time I was going through school we never had to feel like we were in danger but then again it may just be that because we were more educated in usage/prevention that firearms are just a way of life for us.

My next question is this and I ask because with experience in traveling I have seen it with my own eyes.

In knowing that law enforcement cannot be everywhere all the time why would you not want to allow citizens the ability to defend themselves or others from crazies?

I have worked in bars and clubs that have armed security. I have worked in ports and refineries that have armed security. Basically most high population social gathering areas here all have some form of armed security and our most highly populated city is Beaumont which is 120 thousand people at the most. I think people that are not willing to take their own precautions for their personal safety are completely insane.

My mother carries, my sister carries, my grandmother at 72 years old is still a crackshot with her 22 purse pistol.

The simple fact is like anything else firearms are tools and without training and respect for the tool the tool become dangerous.

Everything else is left to Darwinism.

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