Do you own a gun?

@Lostpoet why?

@TexChik 🤨 I'd use it

@Lostpoet find some self discipline! That's a no no!

@TexChik The only time I've ever fired a gun was in scouts. I just never really grew up with them. I know my grandpa on my mom side had a lot of guns but had to give them up when his Alzheimer's got so bad.

@Lostpoet Aww. My adoptive father was a marine, he had guns and I was curious. He let me shoot one and I loved it. From that day forward I have been a gun girl

@TexChik I think guns can be good, but it changes some people like a drug I think it does. I don't want to hurt anything even if that means I have to lose.

I love shooting hoops and some people like shooting soda cans and as long as that's as far as it ever goes than I think that's a good thing to have. But if you think having a gun makes you stronger than you really are than I think that's a bad thing.

@Lostpoet my carry gun makes me and mine safer .

@TexChik From what? Whose coming after you? I think when you make demons is when you run into them.

@Lostpoet nope ... I successfully defended my life and my kids during a home invasion robbery . I will never again be a victim

@TexChik 🤷🏼‍♂️ I don't have to worry about home invasions.

@TexChik I don't get me wrong I think it's a good thing that you have one and that you are responsible with it but a lot of people aren't and a lot of accidents happen that shouldn't have happened.

@Lostpoet accidents happened ... much more in vehicles than with guns

@Lostpoet how does the fact she carries a handgun make demons? Innocent people without a handgun are victims of violent crimes everyday.

@JesseInTX I haven't been.

@Lostpoet just because you haven’t been doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Watch the news some. Happens everyday in every major city.

@JesseInTX 🙄 i'se street foo! If someone pulls a gun I run but then I remember his ass for suptin later.

@JesseInTX they don't have much crime where he lives

@Lostpoet I hope that works. When I was 20, 1990, I had a gun pushed into my back and a guy demanding all my money. I couldn’t carry a handgun legally then. I heard his friends telling him to “shoot that m’fer”. Fortunately he didn’t. Took $37 and they drove off. I never saw any faces. After that I swore never again. 5 years later I was put into a “him or me” situation in downtown Dallas. I saw his gun, he didn’t know I had one. I drew, he ran. He also dropped his gun and fingerprints put him away. 2003 I shot a guy in another of those situations. He didn’t die. All I’m saying is rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

@SW-User and that’s great. I’m not saying everyone needs to have one. But to make assumptions that if you carry one means you’re a demon attracting demons to you is false.

@JesseInTX honestly I don't know if Poet would use a gun even if he was in that situation and could. Now put me in the same situation and I'd have no problem.

@JesseInTX That's good and I'm glad it worked out that way. I was kidding about being street, I live in Utah, and noone is really street here. I've never been in a situation where I needed a gun, so I've never bought one. I know how to shoot a little bit from scouts, but that's it.

@SW-User Maybe I can distract them with a poem while you shoot. Lol

@Lostpoet if you’re in SLC or the suburbs of it there is an active gang issue. Crips, Bloods, MS-13. They’ve changed the way they operate. Not as detectable by colors, tattoos. But they are there. I am glad you haven’t had to deal with any of it.

@JesseInTX I haven't seen much of it.