Words said by an anonymous, old time lawman

[ironglowz]

  ..And he seems serious;

 
   Why Carry a Gun?

My old Grandpa said to me, 'Son, there comes a time in   every man's life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts   bustin' caps and usually it's when he becomes too old to   take a whoopin'.'
I don't carry a gun to kill people; I carry a gun to keep   from being killed.
 I don't carry a gun because I'm evil; I carry a gun because   I have lived long enough to see the evil in the World.
 I don't carry a gun because I hate the government; I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
 I don't carry a gun because I'm angry; I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
 I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone; I   carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man; I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves   and the ones they love.
 I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate; I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
 I don't carry a gun because I love it; I carry a gun because   I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.
 Police protection is an oxymoron: Free citizens must   protect themselves because police do not protect you   from crime; they just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.
 Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take a whoopin'!
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[Dee]

I have said to  every victim of assault,  or home invasion victims when investigating either, for many years:When SECONDS count, the police are only MINUTES away.

[Casull]

I sincerely doubt that anybody's "old grandpa" ever used the phrase "busting caps".

[Dee]

I sincerely doubt that anybody's "old grandpa" ever used the phrase "busting caps".

LOL, I'm "an old grandpa" and I "might" say "bustin caps".

But I'd be more likely to say, and have said: I carry a gun cause I have no intentions of being molested.
That covers all that dribble, and uses way less air.

[Casull]

As far as I know, "bustin caps" is the slang of the low pants, sideways gun holding type.   

[Dee]

I think its pretty much bled over into lots of areas. Just not mine.

[Ranger99]

As far as I know,  people have talked about
bustin caps since the percussion cap days.
First percussion muzzleloading rifle I had
in the early 80's I got a comment from a
pretty old elderly man at the range about
" Where ja git that capbuster sonny?"
I was 20 some odd and he had to have
been mid late 80's somewhere abouts.
He probably heard his pawpaw say that.

[Dee]

As far as I know,  people have talked about
bustin caps since the percussion cap days.
First percussion muzzleloading rifle I had
in the early 80's I got a comment from a
pretty old elderly man at the range about
" Where ja git that capbuster sonny?"
I was 20 some odd and he had to have
been mid late 80's somewhere abouts.
He probably heard his pawpaw say that.

Your likely right, but its more fun to make the term ethnic.