Wow. You must be a really tough guy.
The usual horse**** spewed by the Internet about stuff that's none of their business. Ever think folks might have reasons, real reasons, they aren't going to discuss with you nor are any of your concern, especially on the Internet?
I could give the example of a prominent pharmacist and business owner I knew personally who was shot multiple times in his lifetime (he's deceased now, so I don't mind talking about it) by psychos in his store. He owned the store. No big corporate pharmacy, just him and his .357, late at night. He carried always. He shot three people.
All "clean" shoots. He knew every cop on the local force personally after so many robberies they couldn't keep count. They liked him. He helped everyone in the neighborhood who needed help with pharmaceutical costs, everyone. That man gave away thousands and thousands of dollars to sick folks over 35 years. The cops came QUICK when he hit his panic button under the counter. But not quick enough that he wasn't shot in the hand and the thigh, in two separate shootings. He persevered. He wanted nothing more in life that to run his store. It was his life and livelihood.
He helped my grandparents a number of times. He was a good person. An armed good person. He didn't travel without his firearms after two of his assailants survived and were released back into society.
He sold the store and retired a number of years ago. It's just a ****ty strip mall with no soul now that can't keep tenants. No proud owner outside driving around the parking lot with the street sweeper he bought to keep it neat, clean, and well-maintained. It fell into disrepair and partial blight after he got too old and had to sell.
You see, your attitude is the typical Internet bull**** one. The one that thinks anyone arguing rights is doing it for the reason YOU are. To prove some stupid Internet point.
The reality is, your society and government simply aren't always as civilized as you'd like to believe in your nice suburban home and fine-trimmed lawn.
I would NEVER presume to infringe on that man's RIGHT to defend himself and keep his personal life's dream alive against useless turds who tried to kill him multiple times.
The pharmacy owner cried when you could get the story out of him, about how he wished those idiots wouldn't have come into his store with intent to harm him. He said he would have just given them the damn drugs they needed. If they only hadn't walked in and pointed guns at him, and two of them fired. But he had no remorse about saving his own life.
It wasn't a "bad part of town", it was just open until well after midnight most nights to help moms and dads with sick kids, and folks who needed him. I think he took one vacation in the 20 years or so that I knew him. He gave me my first job with a real paycheck while I was still in high school.
We have no idea why the kid wanted his pistol, and it's none of our business. He doesn't have to answer that question, to you or me or anyone else.
It's not always about being a "tough guy". But that's the BS spewed quite often by the clueless on the Internet who have never had their life threatened. Kid doesn't owe you or anyone else an explanation. And only a fool would think it *always* was because someone wanted to be a "tough guy".
You probably need to get out more and talk to some folks who have had to shoot. You'd realize there's a lot more to many of their stories.
