That is a good question. Must be the idea that there is so many others around. I am exactly the opposite. Feel FAR safer away from the crowds. Of course I have never quite been able to get my head around people who do not want to have a gun whether its in the wide open or in the city. When someone tells me that I have long just shrugged and said the bad people have to eat too. Often makes them quite angry when it hits what I am saying.
People believe the myth of safety in numbers.
This is what I was getting at with my question. The higher population densities the higher violent crime rates, yet city folk seem to think they are safer without the means to protect themselves. My guess is a lot of people live in fantasy land.That is a good question. Must be the idea that there is so many others around. I am exactly the opposite. Feel FAR safer away from the crowds. Of course I have never quite been able to get my head around people who do not want to have a gun whether its in the wide open or in the city. When someone tells me that I have long just shrugged and said the bad people have to eat too. Often makes them quite angry when it hits what I am saying.
Yet their own inner city policies they vote for are driving violent crime thru the roof.
They are too stupid to realize that though.
Or too delusional
Facts can't dispel the illusion. And the average person is an idiot.
Lots of inner city people are highly educated, but they fall for the social idea of community protection, 911 will save them so you dont need a gun either.
Its incredibly frustrating that my rights to protect my life and liberty are being removed by people who think everyone else should live their life.
It might be interesting to ask the "people who think everyone should live their life"....
The old line the definition of insanity comes to mind. Liberalism really is a mental disorder. Its not just a cute bumper sticker. They really do have some kind of mental disorder. They do the same failed idea's over and over again and really do expect it to suddenly just work.
Ive gone full circle with them many times.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I would expand on that. While there are certainly plenty of unreasonable people, most people are reasonable about some things and unreasonable about others, but we don't realize what we ourselves are being unreasonable about. We are not rational beings, we are beings that rationalize. All of us are that way, even if we don't recognize it. Being rational is the exception for humans, not the rule.
I have friends that are liberals and they are highly intelligent people, people I can trust, and would go to the Earths ends to help me if needed. I'm torn with the idea of thinking less of them over gun rights (or other politics) but they really don't understand how their own policies they voted for hurt them. A friend once told me "when am I ever gonna need an AR15" yet since then violent crime in their city has doubled over the policies of the very people they voted for. And I cant seem to get this thru to them. I don't know what to think anymore.The old line the definition of insanity comes to mind. Liberalism really is a mental disorder. Its not just a cute bumper sticker. They really do have some kind of mental disorder. They do the same failed idea's over and over again and really do expect it to suddenly just work.
Often perceptions like that are based on a flawed view of what people actually think and believe.The old line the definition of insanity comes to mind. Liberalism really is a mental disorder. Its not just a cute bumper sticker. They really do have some kind of mental disorder. They do the same failed idea's over and over again and really do expect it to suddenly just work.
"Highly educated" =/= smart. You can train a dog, getting an education is no different. That is why people who ask questions are frequently attacked.
And I know numerous liberals that are the same as you described and own AR15's and some vote for 2A and some of those people don't. They each have their reasons, some logical some not. Either way, applying broad labels is a great way to misunderstand reality.
And thats why I said what I said. I'm not applying broad lables to liberals.
I did not mean that you were applying broad labels, but re-reading what I wrote it does imply that. Sorry, that was not my intent.
