Aside from the obvious, what made you carry full-time?

I've been the victim of a mugging. It is a helpless feeling to have a gun pointed at you and others knowing that you are completely left to the mercy of some low life scumbag.

As a Christian, I have no problems sending dirtbags to the next life if they are a threat to innocent life.
 
I don't joyfully await such an opportunity at all. It is something to prepare for in reality IMO because SD shootings can and do happen. Hopefully I won't ever need to do so.

I carry because crime in the town I live in has grown very fast in the last few years and I recently married and would prefer to be armed when out with the wife.
 
if it was socially acceptable, i'd have a 30-30, 30-06, and .22 LR in my truck on a gun rack in the window, and a 45 LC revolver in the glove box and on a holster with me when i walk around. I remember when people would do that, lol.
 
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I really have just never been able to trust the general public, Call it paranoid or whatever but i just have a hard time believing in the decency of the Modern-American society.
 
yeah, when i was a kid and nintendo came out, it was the biggest thing since sliced bread. Now adays kids watch those high tech vampire movies and all the sudden they are vampires and need to drink blood and wear black clothes and panty-hose on their arms.... Maybe those angry old ww2 vet who would shake their canes at us were onto something, and we just didnt know it till now :rolleyes:
 
LOL i miss the days when people would drive their trucks around town with rifles in the rear window.
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We still do:D...However, I started carrying due to the increase in crime in and around Boise/S.W. Idaho. Its no New York City, but the crime overall has increased, and in broad daylight. I figure I have a better chance at getting hit by lightning.....but you never know, I do have bad luck.
 
When I was 21 I worked for Chevron oil and carried large amounts of money so I got a permit and a colt combat commander. My family has been either military or law enforcement and in some cases both. My father was a LEO and gun instructor as well as collector so I guess guns are in my DNA. I always renewed my NH permit and had one for Mass. for years. Looking at society today, I think one might as well be tap dancing on land mines than not be armed.
I have had a few occasions I was very glad to be armed, and I don't go out clubbing or to bad neighborhoods!
 
Never actually shot somebody, but on a number of occasions I came real close. Attempted carjacking, mugging outside of a Walmart, strong armed attempted robbery at an ATM (I was threatened by 3 guys to give up my money if I did not want a 45 shoved in my face, in turn they got my 357 sig stuck in their's), had a convicted sex offender follow my first wife home (cops caught him 2 days later, he was out on probation and went back to jail), had some interesting camping visitors out in the middle of nowhere, and I am convinced it was my G20 in a holster, and my wife carrying a G26 that kept us safe.

All of these incidents happened in the 14 years I lived in AZ, been pretty safe anywhere else!:eek: But I still carry a gun, and keep a loaded AR15 or Fal in my trunk everywhere I go.
 
Luby's Restaurant in Texas, . . .

Three tours in VietNam, . . .

Robbed at gunpoint (1911 at that), . . .

I like living, . . .

It's now legal in Ohio, . . .

Just a few of the reasons.

May God bless,
Dwight-
 
Carried with out CCW sense early 70s never had a permit till last year, personally don't think you should need one, but age and back ground checks are necessary. Times are worse than ever, little punks and career criminals are 24-7- 365, they have no concern for the value of a life, or your property and I won't hesitate taking there's. We have enough scum in our jails on our tax money, only to be let out and with in hours doing the same things as they went in for. :mad:
 
Well besides the "because I can/should" reason (which really trumps all), there was some other reasons for it.

For one, we see the rise of public shootings and massacres. Not just in schools, but in public buildings, et al. Which makes you realize that YOU could be in that situation one day. Nobody asks to be in the middle of a massacre or hostage situation when they simply went out to eat.

Two, I see my neighborhood for what it is. It's not horrible by any means. It's relatively peaceful. But it hasn't exactly gotten better over the years. Nor is anywhere you go completely safe anyway. As well, I too find myself in unsafer neighborhoods like the next guy. But instead of only "saddling up" when I go in to Detroit for example, I decided that I would make CC a part of my everyday life.

Three, you can be one of the people who stands by and watches things happen. Watches and prays that they and their loved ones will be spared. Or you can be one of the people who would at least try and defuse the situation to the best of their abilities. And carrying a gun certainly helps you do that. Especially when all it often does is level the playing field against the BG. I decided that I did not want to be someone who sat around hopelessly and allowed evil to happen because there was nothing else he could do. A gun will far from always save your life. Nothing will though. Not seatbelts, or fire alarms, etc. But just because it's not a failsafe, does that mean you should just say "screw it" and go out with less than that? And of course, it's truly better to have it and not need it than vice versa.
 
I am never without a firearm with the exception of the shower. I always have a firearm on my body and on those rare occasions, such as company in the house, I take off the holster and rely on guns hidden about the house or a pocket gun in my pants. You could call me paranoid but I with rather be paranoid then have that happen to me ever again. I have my Kimber Stainless Pro Carry in Condition One as I sit here writing this.
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Same here on all the above, with the exceptions of mine being an Ultra CDP, and the fact that I never suffered a direct attack. But being in close proximity to one of the most deadly cities in the US takes it's toll on others, some of which you may know. In my case, it was 2 girls, both far too young, far too close to me, and both murdered. Daughters and sisters of friends, taken from us before we were ready to let go. I have also been the target of criminal mischief, and tipped my hand enough to diffuse a situation before it has really started, more than a few times. But the biggest reason I sought a CPL was to protect myself and my wife while pushing her in a wheelchair. I always said I "could no longer run from trouble" and "felt as though there were a target on my back." It even caused me to seek to apply before my state came to it's senses and became "shall issue," though beareaucratic nonsense made that all but impossible for anyone that wasn't in the inner circle of this county's constabulary corruption.
 
What made me carry full time? The passing of the castle law in Georgia. I was robbed at gunpoint over 23 years ago. The guy had the gun illegally and legally, I could not be armed then. Seemed kind of stupid to me that the only people that could be armed were cops and crooks.

I have had a carry permit for 20 years, but I didn't carry (other than having a gun in my glove box) because I was afraid of the lawsuits that could come with blowing away some assailant who - while I may have been justified in defending myself from - had a family that got a good lawyer to sue me into oblivion. The castle law (passed on Thursday, April 27, 2006 here in Georgia) put a stop to that inconceivable stupidity and so I carry all the time now (started carrying in late 2007).
 
Friends,

I carry because, even as a dull academic, I had to unholster a revolver two times to prevent attacks on me and my family.
Twice more I did not have to unholster the revolver, but I needed it as a precaution in case of attack.
I had no CCW at these times.

When CCW came to my state, I got the permit, but decided that I would only carry the revolver if I thought conditions might require self protection.

I realized that I could not always predict such conditions, so I started full time carry.

I felt foolish having a revolver in a pocket holster.

In the first week, while in the country taking photographs, completely out of sight of any farmhouses, I wandered far away from my truck, when two large dogs began to stalk me, growling, with ears back and teeth showing.

I carried a Ruger LCR with Crimson Trace Grips.
I pointed the laser beam into their eyes and they stopped.
They whined and backed away.

Without the gun, they would have maimed or killed me.

Now I feel foolish going anywhere without the Ruger and extra ammo.

I cannot control when I need a sidearm, so I carry "just in case I will need it again."

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The deciding day .Was out with the WIFE in ORLANDO FL at the arena .SHE was using a walker going to the car .When a car showed up I WENT OH BOY THIS IS IT. Thank the lucky stars it was ORLANDO PD. The officer made sure we were safe . WATCH YOUR BACK ALWAYS.:eek:
 
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