Here's a little snippet I came across...

My old grandpa said to me ‘Son, there comes a time in every man’s
life when he stops bustin’ knuckles and starts bustin’ caps and usually
it’s when he becomes too old to take an *** whoopin.’
I don’t carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep
from being killed.

I don’t carry a gun to scare
people. I carry a gun because sometimes this
world can be a scary place. I don’t carry a gun because I’m
paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to
see the evil in the world.
I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the
limitations of government..

I don’t carry a gun because
I’m angry. I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest
of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
I don’t carry a gun because
I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed,
and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don’t carry a gun because I am a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go
to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don’t carry a gun to make me feel
like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take
care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
I don’t carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

Police protection is an oxymoron.
Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call
someone in to clean up the mess.

Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to take an *** whoopin’…..

author unknown (but
obviously brilliant)