Why does this discussion have to be hijacked to talk about the freedom to carry guns... :rolleyes:


Quote Originally Posted by Olivia View Post
Why? Please feel free to believe what you want. It really is OK. I don't live in fear. I do take precautions. I am a responsible gun-owner who takes the responsibilities of that ownership quite seriously, much as I take the Second Amendment. If that bothers you, or any others here, then , well, I'm sorry. You have the right to believe as you want in the UK (at least for now) just as we do here in the United States.
And yet, so many of you do appparently live in fear - that's why you cling to your security blankets - a fear incomprehensible to so many of us who don't live in a society where they are so very readily accessible.

I'm not afraid of guns - to me they are tools - but in the hands of people who don't really know what they are doing, they can turn an unpleasant incident into a really bad one. (And I'd count many of the police firearms officers I've met in that category).

But my major problem is the false sense of security (and power) they engender. I used the word 'security blanket' in a previous post, but no one picked up on it - it's so very true..

On topic: Although I sometimes carry a pistol, I don't always and I have never had to fear for my safety while out. I am out so seldom en femme that perhaps I just haven't had the exposure to that type of behaviour. I did enter a support group meeting at an Austin restaurant with two other crossdressers and heard a bit of laughter from a male diner. Heck, he may have just heard a funny joke or maybe he thought we were amusing. I didn't feel threatened though. Hehe, well, at least two of us did have pistols in our purses.
But if you had felt threatened, you could have killed someone? That sort of thinking is where there there is such a huge cultural difference..