I'm a licensed carrier. I am well trained. I have had excellent discipline with guns since childhood. My dad was an outstanding marksman with a rifle or a pistol. I grew up respecting guns and been around guns my whole life. People like us aren't itching to shoot anybody. But if somebody (a mass shooter) is itching to got shot, I will oblige him.
I named my Dan Wesson "Lucille" after the teasing scene on the movie Cool Hand Luke. I always name my guns after a movie scene that comes into mind while I'm shooting my gun for the first time,. In the case of the Dan Wesson Bruin, I was like "Lucille, oh Lucille" and drooling over the gun just as the chain gang was drooling over the woman teasing them in the movie. So the gun is named Lucille.
I'm a very serious dude when it comes to personal protection. I do not play games with violent crminals. I will not become the next victim of some deranged Democrat who wants to shoot up a church or any other place I happen to be in. Fortunately I live in an area where concealed carry is normalized and nobody has shot anybody. An armed society is a polite society.
The gun pictured below is in the ER right now because the plunger pin flew off while shooting it. Its Kimber that has been converted into a 460 Rowland. The grips also flew off the gun due to the power of the 460 Rowland cartridge. Obviously Kimber is not a well made gun. But it shoots real straight and has near 44 Magnum power in a semi-auto 1911 pistol. I put Wilson Combat grips on the gun after the Kimber grips broke off while shooting it.
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A 460 Rowland is a very powerful cartridge that will stop a mass shooter in one shot. I find 9mm too anemic for self-defense and usually carry a 45 acp. But the 460 Rowland will hopefully soon enter the carry rotation.
I bet if I took you out shooting you'd have the time of your life. I'm a real good teacher as well. Its hard to learn pistols too. Shooting pistols is an art. But there are ways to teach the beginner to shoot well if carefully instructed. We have new shooters coming into the range all the time. They want to learn how to shoot so they can defend themselves against Democrats who go on mass shootings (as their social media profiles are all Democrat). We are just sick of this mass shooting fashion that started to become the normalized under Obama. We take careful and well calculated measures to make sure we know how to act if such a moment is presented. I never had much use for a pistol prior to these mass shootings. But these days I'm not throwing dice with my life or the lives of my friends and family. If I get into a gun fight with a mass shooter then I aim to win that gun fight. And you have to realize that people who conceal carry are automatically at the disadventage. The mass shooter will have a rifle chambered in 5.56 or 7.62 NATO. The power of a rifle caliber will dwarf the power of a pistol caliber. So training is vital to owning a pistol. I see no point in concealed carry unless a person plans on training. For you can also go to prison for collateral damage depending on the nature of that collateral damage. Training is absolute.
You seem like one of those guys who don't like guns. But guns aren't the problem. Its a mental health issue. Those mass shooters don't have an ounch of morality left in them. Anyone who can murder little children has lost all morality and has no morality left in them. Being a Christian, I hold strong to my Christian values. I own guns for protection, target shooting, and hunting. I do not own guns for the purpose of committing violent crimes. Most gun owners do not commit violent crimes. But we can end a violent crime in progress before more people get killed. The biggest problem with concealed carry is that there is no way we can know there is a mass shooter unless we actually see the shooter come into a building with a gun. Unfortunately we have to wait until we hear the shots before we can act. But at church, I sit where I can see the enterance door from a safe place. So if a mass shooter comes into church I will see him first and send him out of the chuch in a body bag.