An EXCELLENT Post.

By somebody else.

Via South Park Pundit, I stumbled across an excellent post, Why own guns? at the blog To Which I Replied... Excerpt:

Living in southern California along a fault line, which (everyone agrees) is LONG overdue for the "big one," the idea of being left high and dry in the event of a natural disaster seemed like a sobering prospect. As to police protection; remember the LA riots? Police fought valiently to protect the city? Nope. There were too many rioters and the police literally stepped back and let them have control of the city for days until it burned itself out. Unbelieveable. The world was rapidly becoming a more dangerous place. Well, not really, it was already dangerous, I was just naive.

I looked into the future, and saw my family, and looked at my girlfriend (mostly fiance), and knew that I had things to protect.

But I still wasn't decided. I thought I was being a little cynical to think that the police can't protect me at all. So I started talking to my police friends and family members... Wow. I didn't believe it, and wound up searching the net for a long time to find people denying these statements, but only found agreements. The police DO NOT, and WILL NOT "protect" you.

I guess everyone hasn't read Is the Government Responsible for Your Protection? Still, an excellent restatement of the reasons for being a gun owner. Strongly recommended for those still thinking about taking the plunge.