‘Concealed Carry Permit Holders Have a Duty to Be Armed’

After Paris Attacks: ‘Concealed Carry Permit Holders Have a Duty to Be Armed’

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LEBANON, Tennessee— The 12.8 million Americans with concealed carry permits have a new civic responsibility to counter any U.S. replay of the barbaric murders of more than 120 unarmed innocent civilians in Paris, France, according to Nashville talk radio host Ralph Bristol.

“Concealed carry permit holders have a duty to be armed,” Bristol says.

“It’s not going to do us any good if we’re not carrying that gun,” Bristol said on Saturday to a crowd of 500 gathered outside the parking lot of D.T. McCall and Sons furniture and appliance store in Lebanon, Tennessee on the fifth stop of the WWTN radio talk show host’s ‘The Second Amendment is Homeland Security’ tour.

“If you are like me, and you have that permit to carry that gun . . . we’ve got a duty to do something to make the right things happen,” Bristol began

“We didn’t ask for this fight [with Islamic terrorists],” Bristol added, “but we will be ready for this fight when everyone understands that, and why the Second Amendment is homeland security.”

“War has come to America, ladies and gentlemen, and we act as if it hasn’t,” he explained.

“Any place in America,” Bristol said, “is a potential terrorist killing field, battle field, slaughterhouse, like that concert hall was in Paris last night.”

“We have lawmakers at the city and state level that are specifically telling us, ‘Oh no, you can’t have guns at concerts, you can’t have guns at football games and soccer matches. Wasn’t a soccer match the site of one of those terrorist attacks last night?” Bristol asked.

“What we can’t have is killing fields, what we can’t have is slaughterhouses all around these United States of America,” he told the audience. (emphasis added)

He noted that “public policy hasn’t changed to keep up with the war we’ve been fighting since 9-11 2001,” but that inattentiveness must end if we are to survive as a free civilization.

Bristol then explained who the 12.8 million concealed carry permit holders in America are and what they seek to accomplish.

“For those who may be watching outside of this crowd and may not know who or what we are, let me tell you, first of all, what we are not. We are not vigilantes. We’re not out looking for trouble. We’re not out enticing people to make trouble so we can shoot them,” he emphasized.

“We don’t ever, ever, ever want to have to use our gun,” Bristol explained.

“But we live in a country—and so does everybody else in the world right now—where every place, every store, every concert hall, every football field, every school, every mall is a potential slaughterhouse for ISIS terrorists because we are ordered not to carry our own protection in those places,” he argued.

“We are not the police,” Bristol said.

“There are more of us than there are police. We are in many more places than the police,” he noted.

Bristol then drove home the important job the country’s 12.8 million concealed carry permit holders now have in front of them.

“Our job is not to arrest any ISIS inspired terrorist, our job is to kill him IF he starts shooting,” he told the crowd.

“We are not the military,” Bristol continued.

“The military is and always has been our first line of defense, and still is….But we are the third line of defense, after the military, after the police and the intelligence [community]. We are where the slaughter is going to take place if we’re not there and if we’re not armed,” he concluded.

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Much more in the aticle, I completely agree, thoughts?

 

We all have a duty to be armed.

People with CCWs have a duty to be armed when not at home.

 

So when pretty much every place is a "gun free zone"? Or if someone sees your weapon and freaks?
I don't care about either personally. I carry when and wear I want, permit or no. GFZ or no.

 

As long as I have the choice to be armed or not. I am usually within 30 seconds of a gun, most of the time. The chances of me being a victim of a random attack are so low in my statistical estimation where I spend most of my time---does not make it realistic for me to have one on me.

I will certainly have one on me or right by me when traveling on long trips, camping or going into higher crime areas.

However, it is up to each person to do their security risk assessment for themselves. I would only have a gun at arm's reach at all times IF I was somehow ordered to do it, or if I was living or working in hostile place like Syria, Detroit, Stockton, Juarez, Rio or so forth.

 

I see those as an education opportunity. Handled well you can often use that chance to change a mind. One time it ended with one of the best replies on the subject I've ever had. "I'm generally anti-gun but have to admit I feel better knowing men like you are armed"

 

Of course, even most LEOs have the option when off duty.

However my local sheriff sent this out yesterday. "While off-duty I am asking all commissioned personnel to always carry their sidearm, with extra magazines. I know that some of you already do, but many do not. Now is the time! With all that is going in the world, it is more important than ever to have the means to protect your family, the public, and yourself."

 

I'm not a cop, I'm a survivalist.

Given enough seconds to react, I should pull through most events okay.

 

Or like in Paris, shottys are pulled just about point blank. How many seconds did those people have?

 

Which would make you just another victim when you are attacked in a low % atmosphere like those in France. Nothing wrong with playing the odds, but they may beat you someday.

 

i worry that some CCW may take it upon himself to engage in pre-emptive self-defense against possible terrorists, by gunning down a bunch of random Muslems

 

Do explain pre-emptive self defense.

 

ask GWB

 

I asked you.

 

Some people for whatever reason need to violently fight.

If they do not have a common target they will just fight each other.

So I suppose it is good that they have all found a common target to bleat to eachother about. Maybe they will shoot eachother less in the mean time.

 

I haven't been in Paris since back in 1982.

When visiting hot spots like Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis, Atlanta and so forth---the gun is within reach.

 

But I'm not in France---I'm in place more like Andy Griffith's Mayberry most of the time. So I take my chances, which isn't really taking much of a chance.

Let's hope for MY sake I'm not proven wrong.

 

Our Second Amendment is not at all ambiguous as to what is Necessary to the security of a free State.

 

Seriously? You think lawful concealed carriers are going to start shooting random muslims? Really?
I know you are familiar with the track record of CCW's and exactly how much more law abiding they are than the average citizen.

 

It already happened in Canada even without weapons, and you know how nice Canadians are.

 

didnt happen in Canada

 

it happens, even without weapons.

 

My reference is the CCW holders in America who have a track record of being more lawfully compliant than the average US citizen.

 

why the reticence to become more well regulated and more necessary to the security of a free State?

 

^ This. I am a Canadian Citizen, and we do not have concealed carry. Protecting my life and the lives of those around me is my human right and obligation. I will carry when and where I please, legal or not.

 

What's stopping those same people from doing it now? Why would someone wait to go and get a CCW before they start shooting random people?