So says a real estate agent who is afraid of guns:
I am not in favor of real estate agents bringing guns to work, unlike my colleague Trey Garrison.
First and foremost, let me issue a positioning statement on guns. I recognize that we live in a scary world full of scary people. Realtors, real estate agents, brokers, and others have every right, duty, and responsibility to protect themselves.
But count me among those who think that the answer to gun violence is not introducing more guns into the equation.
That argument has never made any sense to me. It’s like saying we can defeat heart disease by eating more cheeseburgers.
The real answer is making sure we live in a safer world. I’ve often said that the world would be a better place if guns didn’t exist at all. Maybe that’s naïve or narrow-minded, but it’s what I believe.
But I also recognize that I’m fighting an uphill battle when I argue that all guns should disappear. Despite my pie-in-the-sky ramblings, I certainly appreciate and understand the rights granted to all U.S. citizens by the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights is something that I hold very dearly. I probably wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing if the First Amendment didn’t exist. But I also recognize that the founding fathers couldn’t possibly have predicted that we’d live in a world when a 20-year-old man can walk into an elementary school and brutally murder 20 young children and six adults in a few minutes.
In 50 years, will we think of this time like we think of the Wild West? It seems like some folks won’t be happy until we can all carry a handgun in a holster on our hip wherever we go.
If I see a stranger carrying a gun, I turn and run. I don’t feel safer.
But as I said before, I recognize that we live in a scary world and we all have to protect ourselves. Some people work in professions where they’re more prone to encounter bad people with bad intentions.
Hear that, ladies? Some professions are just more dangerous than others, and since you chose real estate, you are at greater risk of being raped. That’s just the way it is. Got it?
Actually, I thought of just such an instance near my home town, where a female real estate agent was recently raped while at “showing” home.
The real estate agent says he choked her, pulled out a knife, and raped her inside a home she was scheduled to show him in Salisbury Tuesday. The two then drive to a second house in Granite Quarry where the agent convinced Cooper to allow her to call her office. She gave a secret code that told coworkers she was in danger.
“As a woman, you’re supposed to be safe. Period,” said Salisbury resident Hattie Johnson. “Especially if a person was assaulted and they were on their jobs, they’re doing their job… it’s scary.”
No, you aren’t supposed to be safe, period! Despite the idiotic ramblings of Mr. Social Darwin above who thinks we are constantly evolving to a higher state (perhaps he has watched too many episodes of Star Trek), nothing you do can change the heart of man. You must carry means of personal defense.
Or, if you wish instead to listen to Mr. Social Darwin above, he would rather you be raped. Perhaps he even takes pleasure in the fact that you lack the means to protect yourself in some sort of sick way. Make up your own mind.
