CHAPTER 1
Should I Decide to Carry?
With the current crime rates in the United States, there's been a great deal of controversy between anti-gunners and those who don't want to give up the guns protected by the Second Amendment: the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
It's unfortunate that there are so many thugs and killers living among us while those who insist on removing our guns and weapons have most likely never been assaulted. In 1960, the number of MURDER in the US was 9,110, and for 31 years, it continued to climb, where it peaked at 24,700 in 1991, but with the ever-increasing concealed carry permits issued, the number of MURDER started to decline from 1991 to 14,612 in 2011. In 2010, 67.5% of all homicides in the United States were perpetrated using a firearm. I guarantee that people who have been on the wrong end of a gun barrel will support those who want to prevent it because it's not a good feeling. I grew up in drive-by shootings, gang and drug-related killings, and fistfights to resist being beaten. I had 5 guns pulled on me and was lucky enough to live through them and took one with a gun grab, aside from being hit with clubs, bricks, and other things, but there are people who will cut you up and put you in trash bags. They don't care about your life! Some gang members will kill for initiation or be killed themselves as a penalty, while innocent people die just because others are trying to be the two toughest kids on the block. I decided not to include any graphic pictures of victims due to their nature, but I assure you that if you watched the video that I saw while drug cartels kidnapped a pretty young woman and they used a razor to hack the head off of her conscious body while she was kneeling outdoors, they also filmed it to make their video very effective so their future victims will do anything and everything they want them to, but if you saw this, you'd certainly pay attention to everything in this book and never have to make up your mind to own and carry a gun for survival. Remember, they killed her after they were finished with her. DEATH comes around only once!
I've had broken and shattered bones and scars and been shot, so you can understand my lifetime of studying to stay alive. I don't trust thugs of any kind once they direct their attention to me. I've come to my brother's rescue at times and he has come to mine other times; it was a way of life, but the thugs eventually become hardened criminals and killers. Unfortunately, many breed new criminals, and because of what I was exposed to in life, I decided to write a book to help teach what so many people don't know about firearms and about protecting themselves. So there might be a word or two about me here and there throughout the text to explain things in reference, but very minimal once past the first few pages. I'd never hesitate to protect my life or the life of an innocent person if I'm able. I learned it at a very young age when I came home crying one day. A big guy beat me up, and my father, a World War II army veteran who had traveled the South Pacific and Japan and had no sympathy for thugs, sent me out to beat him up, or I'd have to deal with him. So just before I beat the daylights out of this thug, I apologized and then found that the guy twice my size became limp on the ground while he cried this time. I think my dad was sorry because once my fear was broken, I never backed down from a fight the rest of my life, if it was obvious that I was being forced to fight, and I put down some real bruisers out of necessity. The point in my mentioning this is because I've talked to adults who have never been in any kind of fight in their entire life and those who have a great fear of it happening. They don't even have the knowledge of using any firearms but find themselves looking to learn. There are too many with opinions other than the true facts. You can learn to overcome your fears, and you can learn to defend yourself. Somehow, I figure you're going to pay very close attention throughout the rest of this book. If you do, you won't be sorry.
Due to my lifetime of dealing with thugs, and the residual aches and pains that linger on for life, I learned to be wise and do my best to outsmart them, which doesn't always work. Fear keeps people from protecting themselves and their families, but everyone is very capable of confronting what comes to them in some way and not just allowing killers to do them in by KILLING them and wasting their life, just so the punk gets his kicks or initiation. One fellow was confronted by a killer with a gun, and he said, "In the name of God, your gun won't fire," and so the thug decided to put it to the test, and bullets ripped through the victim's body. Don't get me wrong, some are bad hombres, but many don't want to die either, while some of them just may stand their ground, so you have to understand this and stand your ground too if you want to stay alive. "Never tempt a thug to shoot you because they just might." Some travel in groups and many fight in groups, so there's no way to try to rethink or come to any terms with this breed; you have to learn to deal with them and fight back, but you have to learn to recognize the right time to react and the severity of the threat.
If you read this book, it will give you your money's worth, I assure you. You'll learn all about firearms and what to do to be able to react in a timely manner and fend off the threat to save yourself or a loved one, maybe even another innocent person. I'm giving you a book full of facts, and you have to decide what to do with your newfound knowledge. There's a great deal of information regarding various firearms and assorted sights, but I feel most households can use a copy of this book because it covers many firearms owned in American households and clarifies specifics while doing away with many myths. Any safety benefit gained from carrying a firearm depends on the owners having appropriate training and understanding of developing the skills, abiding by the rules, and learning to compensate for varied conditions! While so many people are killed every day, if you learn one thing in this book that might help you save your life, then it was well worth the money.
If you already have your concealed carry permit—just because a person is legally authorized to carry a weapon—it does not mean you have the proper training and judgment to use it during an emergency or crisis. If you obtain your concealed carry license or permit (and I hope you do), there's a BILL before Congress, HR822 for national concealed carry reciprocity between states. Under the house legislation, HR822 will authorize people with a concealed carry permit in one state to carry a concealed weapon in every other state that gives people the right to carry concealed weapons. If this bill gets passed, you can travel nationwide without fear of being a victim because the other states will honor your license. Presently, you can already obtain licenses in several states, and many states will honor the license of other states on their list. Check the states that your state will honor, with your attorney generals, and make sure you study the laws in every state you plan to travel, including your own.
Don't become a dead victim because you deny the fact that you can be next on the list of those being killed! Guns don't kill people, but people certainly kill people!
It's time we take America back...
