{"id":758,"date":"2009-01-09T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2009\/01\/09\/why-carry-gun\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:19:55","slug":"why-carry-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2009\/01\/09\/why-carry-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Carry a Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>I so appreciate FrontSight and what it has already taught me.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know what I didn&#8217;t know.\u00a0 I look forward to my next class in March 2009.<\/p>\n<p>I came across this article the other day, and I thought I would send it to you.\u00a0 It was written anonymously.<\/p>\n<h4>Why I Carry a Gun<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun because I&#8217;m paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun because I&#8217;m evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun because I&#8217;m angry. I carry a gun so that I don&#8217;t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun because I&#8217;m a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to Heaven, I want to be a cowboy.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have a great day.<\/p>\n<p>Jim M.<br \/>\nFront Sight Lifetime Diamond Member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza, I so appreciate FrontSight and what it has already taught me. I didn&#8217;t know what I didn&#8217;t know.\u00a0 I look forward to my next class in March 2009. I came across this article the other day, and I thought I would send it to you.\u00a0 It was written anonymously. Why I Carry a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,5],"tags":[571,2864,917,580,2054,4705,9,59,2631,187,3694,210,218,1363,415,2764,4049,4050,1037,232,290,3832,2652,2365,738,3353,4355,1386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}