Featured How Safe Do You Feel Today?

wrong thread.

 

My safety is in Christ. He has my back regardless of what happens to me physically.

 

Give the man a cigar - a voice of reason.

 

I agree with the sentiment; but if He allowed me to acquire the tools and skills to defend my Wife, myself, and my home; I would be a negligent fool not to use them.

 

There is a difference in feeling "safe" and being "afraid". I don't feel safe in a lot of situations (especially with my PTSD). But I can honestly say that I don't feel fear. For three reasons: 1. It's been trained out of me. 2. I've been in a firefight with the Taliban, been in a house fire, and several other life threatening situations. 3. But the biggest is, worst thing that can happen to me is I get sent to Heaven. Not a bad deal.

 

This. x1000.

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Keep this up Dconn (I think that is the moniker you are usually given) and you'll be agreeing with me regarding violence yet. :smilewinkgrin:

 

If you were in the sandbox, surely you realize that there are results worse than death. A quick death is the easy way out. Being maimed and in severe physical and psychological pain for years is much scarier.

 

Perhaps I should have mentioned Kansas is both a concealed carry and open carry state. I conceal. :laugh:

 

I can, with all honesty, say that death is scarier to me. As psychotic as that sounds. If I die, I leave behind a family without a father and husband. I am not a great man, but that would be a great loss. Physical pain is temporal and temporary. And they can't mess me up much more mentally than I already am.

 

Yeah that may have been helpful to mention. :tonofbricks:

But that's OK. It's a process! I open carried once (Out of state - not really possible in Maryland), and still have all my guns actually. You'll get there eventually. :smilewinkgrin:

 

AMEN!

What kind of life is it to worry about your safety all the time? What I tell folks who express concern about my safety when I visit some not-so-safe areas in the world is that I'm just as safe there as I am in my house for if God wants to end my life, I don't have to be in any specific "hot spot". He can let a plane drop out the sky onto my house. :laugh:

Worry and fear breed all sorts of bad decision making in everything. Perhaps it is worry and fear that have a lot of Christians angry and making idols out of politics because they want men to "FIX" things and make them feel safe and okay the way they used to feel.

 

That's true. But I think unlike you, more and more folks in the church are living afraid and and feeling unsafe because they are afraid of everything.

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That that does not sound psychotic at all. It sounds very rational.

 

And the organ grinder keeps playing...

 

Pipe organ? :laugh:

 

Unreal. Seriously. Your post was all about gun violence and my comment about safety was that one reason I feel safe is because I live in a non-gun culture.

I clearly answered your question. I assumed you would want to know why.

So in order to avoid your perspective of off topic I guess I should only have said 'I feel safe' and said nothing else.

Your comment about gunfights clearly indicates that you don't feel safe as a result. I do feel safe because in this culture my chance of being near a shoot-out is next to nil.


After thinking about it I retract my apology. My comments were totally and absolutely on topic.