It’s never nice to be infringed upon in any way and is often quite an annoyance. Although, when the infringement can determine the difference between one’s life and death, you have the right to be up in arms.

As a gun owner and avid hunter, my right to keep and bear arms may reach beyond the average citizen. I have never purchased a gun for the purpose of protection, mostly because I have never felt the need for it. I think of a gun as a tool and buy them to match the situation I expect to be encountering. I have a light shotgun for ducks and upland game, a heavy shotgun for goose, another heavy shotgun for turkey, a light deer rifle, heavy deer rifle, a muzzleloader for deer, and a light and heavy rim fire for small game. The reason you suit a gun to a specific situation is that you want it to be effective and to make a clean and ethical kill. None of the game here poses a threat to human life but in super rare instances. For this reason, I have never thought in the line of self-defense. Well, that is until now.