#WhyICarry Allows Gun Community To Rally Behind Shared Experiences

The left loves them some hashtag activism. It seems that no matter the cause, there’s a hashtag out there.

Ultimately, it does very little. However, one thing it can do is allow people to know they’re not alone. In this day and age, we gun owners often feel isolated, especially if we don’t really fool with various gun groups on Facebook or anything.

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However, if you’re on Twitter, there’s a brand of hashtag activism out there worth taking a look at.

Using #WhyICarry, activists and even just casual carriers get to express their reasons for carrying a firearm. The truth is, there are a lot more of us than many people think.

Here’s my own contribution:

It’s true.

But let’s not make this about me. There are all kinds of awesome tweets.

I know that feeling all too well.

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And not just stories like that, but a few like this never make it out of the local viewing area.

https://twitter.com/SpinSpinSugar_/status/977209991353585664

Amen, sister!

I’ve said it before, the average man is bigger, faster, and stronger than the average woman. While there are outliers, those are just that, outliers. You can’t make policy based on the outliers.

Women who want to protect themselves from male predators need something to even the playing field. The average woman may never bench 300 lbs, but she can muster the few pounds of pressure it takes to pull a trigger.

Game. Over.

Yes, it’s a cliche, but it’s also true.

Further, Castle Rock vs. Gonzalez shows that even with a restraining order in place, the government has no obligation to protect you. In other words, if they don’t show up, that’s OK because they’re not required to look out for you.

But we’re supposed to trust the government with all the guns so they can protect us?

Pull the other one. It’s got bells on it.

https://twitter.com/RebekahWorsham/status/977202222558740480

She’s right.

As a father, I want to protect my wife and kids, but I can’t always be around to do it. Sometimes, my wife may have to be the one to protect them. If that’s the case, she needs the tools to effectively mount a defense.

I promise you, it isn’t going to be a rape whistle.

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I don’t remember a more contentious time in this country in my lifetime. I qualify that only because I’m pretty sure it was more contentious during the Civil War, obviously.

And even if violent crime rates are decreasing, we’re still dealing with a fair bit of ugly left in our world.

These are just a few of the tweets. There is a whole pile of them, and I urge you to not just check them out, but also to offer your own thoughts. We’re all in this together. We have to stand shoulder to shoulder with one another despite our minor disagreements. If we fail to do so, our opponents will worm their way in and dismantle all that we hold dear.

Show our brothers and sisters in what I call hostile territory–places that are rabidly anti-gun–that they’re not alone!

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