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I have extensive martial arts training, and have been in fights where people were maimed for life- I plan to get my ccw soon, because I have seen myself what unreasoning violence can do to a person- Family members of mine have been murdered, and might have lived if they had a gun to fire back with- that said, carrying a weapon requires a responsibility to train with it, be able to use it with excellent proficiency, and accept that it is a killing tool- with all that that statement entails- a claw hammer will kill you as dead as a gun, but guns allow killing at range, quicker- banning guns in my view just makes my 5'2" wife unable to effectively defend herself against a 6' 3" 250 lb male attacker. For those of you who advocate avoiding bad situations, note that my mother in law was murdered just after grocery shopping,after being shot in her driveway, by a crazy ex who violated his parole, traveled from missouri to idaho to find her, aquired an illegal gun, and then shot her- totally disregarding the restraining order, and various other legal restraints- her gun was in the house, she did not have a carry permit, but the trial and crime scene indicated that she was killed with a second shot about 10 feet from the gun case- to those that would say that if he had not had a gun then he would not have shot her, that is correct, but he was significantly larger and would have certainly managed to overpower her- once again, a gun in her hands could have saved her......so I will soon carry a gun, because I believe that while I will likely never ever need it, If i do then it is very much needed...
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