Ccw usage:perception is reality!!

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glock06

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I feel that so much of society and its attitude is just perception, not reality.

Only a small percent of folks have CCW's (??5% of population) but stats show violent crime goes down in those states.

If scumbags are going to try a carjacking who do you think they will try-- a good ole boy in a pickup with a NRA sticker and an empty gun rack or a female in a high end foreign sedan??

How many gun stores get robbed? Who would want to go in a store where everyone inside the store may be a lethal threat?

My sheriff has said that some robbers will avoid confronting or assulting folks if they have a gun magazine in plain sight!!
Guess what?? His deputies will call for backup whenever they pull over a vehicle with a NRA or Marine insignia!! Hardcore Weaponry is assumed!! Perception is reality!!

We want more gunnies to carry but maybe we really need to push putting NRA stickers on vehicles.Do we need to wear more camera vests in the summer or ugh, fanny paks on the hip suggesting "gun"??

What do folks think??
 
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Whose stats? :cool:

I don't disagree with the concept, I just think it is a hard one to actually prove.

As to your car-jacking example, you are mixing apples and oranges. How about a female in a high end foreign sedan with an NRA sticker?

I question how much thought goes through their mind when they do a crime...
 
Anyone have more recent info?

Bottomline-stats suggest gunowners may be 3%ers like the ?3% BG's in the population out there. Guess then there's a 1% chance that both can meet??

To bad--the BG's need to worry more out there!!
 
I carry concealed for a reason. Last thing I want to do is wear a fanny-pack, or a vest that is going to put a big sign on me that says "GUN".

What we need are more stories on the news about how someone with a CHL has protected himself & his family from a badguy.

One time I would like to see a LE official encourage all law abiding citizens to "do their part" in making the streets safer by carrying a handgun. Same principle as learning CPR. If you wait for "first responder" to show up it may be too late. Better to have the "citizens" helping out.
 
illegal but still happens. it is what it is. I don't get "randomly" checked at the airport. I know its cause I look middle eastern.
 
My husband runs a construction company, though we have a good crew of guys now that has not always been the case. We have had some questionable people work for us in the past. He has always been sure that they know that him and i both carry. I used to think it was kind of funny that he did this until we had a friend that also runs a crew hire one of our ex-employees. When our friend had to fire the guy the ex ended up showing up to his house and cops had to get involved. The situation in which he was let go by our friend was much more mellow that when my husband had to fire him. Can't help but believe that the reason he never came to our house or threatened either of us is because he knows we both carry.
 
Correlation is not causation. Texas' crime dropped so much with the CHL program in 1996 that it caused crime to drop 2-3 years before 1996. Not only that, but it caused crime to drop in NY, MA, and IL.
 
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I live "out in the boonies" so to speak, . . . and would surely love to promote the NRA, . . . shooting sports, . . . all that good stuff.

I don't though, . . . as I don't want to advertise as a shopping place for the low lifes around here.

As for the LEO's, . . . I'm told in Ohio, . . . any officer pulling over one with a CHL, . . . he knows it before he exits his cruiser.

But I do subscribe to the "perception is reality" concept to avoid confrontations. Parking lot loiterers I avoid, . . . I also avoid the "rob me, . . . I'm old, helpless, confused, and would be easy picking" look as much as I can.

But I do wear my OD, USMC soft cap with my nickle plated PO1 rank on it out in public. I've noticed at times that some scummies kinda recoil from the image it projects, . . . and I'm not unhappy that that takes place.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
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His deputies will call for backup whenever they pull over a vehicle with a NRA or Marine insignia!! Hardcore Weaponry is assumed!! Perception is reality!!
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I have had a couple cops tell me it goes both ways on this one, some LEO will see you have a CCW when they run your plate and assume that you are a law abiding citizens that plays it by the book, and I have had another cop (the one that taught my CCW class) say that he automaticaly has a CCW'er step out of the car just to be safe.
I got pulled over right after recieving my CCW and was kind of nervous, I accidently handed the officer my Drivers liscense and the registration for my pistol instead of my CPL. he didn't even ask for the CPL and wanted to know how I like my SW99:D
 
I figure it could go both ways, but I'm gonna have to agree, more or less, with the OP.

A few things to consider:

-There are no stats on crimes that did NOT occur.

-Criminals are not all "dumb"... what they do is not smart, but there ARE smart criminals out there.

-You only hear about the crimes that did happen, and those are the ones we tend to remember.

I think most criminals pick out the target they assume to be the weakest. The guy / gal with a gun is not likely to be the weakest target a BG can find.
 
The notion of "perception is reality" is really a fallacy of human interaction.
First off, someone's perception is not reality. Reality is reality; a perception is a persons opinion. Just because someone thinks something doesn't automatically make that a scientific fact or "reality".
So no, perception is not reality, not even close. That is a cliche term that is overused and non-sense.

Example:
I am a stay at home dad, most people I see out in the community during the work day 9-5 perceive me to be off work for a random reason that day (they walk over tell me this: "So your off work and decided to give your wife a day off from the kids...how sweet!":rolleyes:)and have the kids to give mom a break from watching the kids.
That isn't true. They also think I am a big teddy bear that wouldn't hurt a soul because I am gentle and tender with my 2 little girls age 3 and 1 year old...they don't know that I would not hesitate to use lethal force if a situation arose where my life/my kids life were in immediate danger where I could not de-escalate the situation or safely get outta there. They have no clue that I practice daily and shoot bi-weekly for just a situation...much less perceive that I'm carrying a semi-automatic handgun on my belt (locked and loaded) with extra mags, a surefire light, among other tools to aid in my/my kids personal well being in an emergency.

I'd sleep like a baby with a clean conscious afterward too. I'd be more worried about the trauma my kids would go through if something like that happened.
Try to kidnap my kids, rob me, etc...it ain't gonna go like the bad guy thinks its gonna go. ;)
 
They also think I am a big teddy bear that wouldn't hurt a soul because I am gentle and tender with my 2 little girls age 3 and 1 year old...they don't know that I would not hesitate to use lethal force if a situation arose where my life/my kids life were in immediate danger
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so you are kind of like a bear minus the teddy part:D me too!
 
Isn't profiling illegal?
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No, profiling is not illegal. Profiling is used regularly and in a lawful manner most of the time. That it is illegal is more of that perception versus reality stuff, which is the more correct term, as MHbushmaster pointed out. Way too many people confuse the two.
 
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