It’s not too late to become an armed citizen.
To paraphrase the late Colonel Jeff Cooper, “Owning a gun no more makes you an armed citizen than owning a guitar makes you a musician.” Not surprisingly, since the jihad attack in Austin, Texas last week and the FBI miraculously finding the courage to declare, potentially, said incident an act of terrorism, we have received a lot of phone calls and messages regarding armed self-defense.
Of the inquiries we’ve received, a common thread has been, “What is a good, entry level gun for personal defense?” Other folks want to talk about what they should be doing differently, if anything. We could address these questions one at a time or we could pen yet another article on the subject for the benefit of all. Let’s do the latter.
Buying Guns
The United States of America is unique amongst all the other nations on earth in that when people feel scared or anxious, they can leave their home, drive to a store and purchase a firearm as a way to soothe that anxious feeling. (Well, that is the case unless you are a tax slave living in a slave state run by tyrants)
By Paul Markel
