Do people you know hate when you carry?

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Tactical Jackalope

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Yeah...well, sometimes my girlfriend gets all weirded out when I take my gun out of the glovebox to go inside her house. I'm not going to leave it in the car. If I could, I still wouldn't. Everywhere else it's fine though.

Also, friends...I have only a FEW friends who do not like the idea and find it "childish" and "stupid" yes he used those words. To us that carry, that night we were hanging out turned into a political debate and blew up out of hand. He's far left. Too far to be saved. But besides the point.

Are these people seriously THAT trusting in humanity to want to walk the earth without a firearm? He then goes on to say..

"if I go somewhere I may need it I just won't go there"

?!?!?!?! Well...if you had a crystal ball that would work out perfect! But we don't. Evil doesn't make appointments!

Sorry, venting on you guys. Second family. lots of love to you all.

Anyways, any of you know about these people? How do you handle them? Is it POSSIBLE to shut them up?
 
Welcome to the gun club where people that are anti gun think with all there being that there is something seriously wrong with you because you carry.
My advice is to distance yourself from them, you will never change their minds.
Luckily my wife owned a hand gun before we met.
She carries a Smith 60.
The same thing with her. When I met her she had 4 cats. If I wasn’t willing to live with them, we would not be married today.
 
My wife is generally never thrilled when I carry. That is unless of course we are going to areas that might be a little more questionable than the typical trip to the grocery store. At this point she pretty much is over it though.

When we started dating, me having a loaded gun in my house was an issue but she got over that too. I pretty much told her that I had a loaded gun in my house long before her and I'd have one long after her. At this point, if I'm traveling she'll have a loaded gun handy at night.

While it may not be possible to get the anti's to shut up, but I would try to get the girlfriend to be more comfortable around guns. Take her out and show her how to shoot.

As far as the other ones, they have their opinions you have yours. I wouldn't even make it a topic of discussion any more.
 
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I carry every day and no one knows I'm carrying. Several friends who have CCW but have never carried have asked if I'm carrying and I never answer. When I go places the gun is already on my as I don't take it from the vehicle, etc. That will cut down on people being aware of you carring a gun.

There is a friend who thinks I'm crazy for even owning a gun. We had a lively discussion one evening down in Haiti about firearm ownership. He said he would never shoot someone but if someone tried to hurt his wife or daughter he would attack them with a baseball bat. :) Guess he just has qualms about his weapon of choice.

Overall I don't have friends who freak out over carrying. Again, 95% of them never know. Suspect they might but they just don't know. :)

When I met my wife 17 years ago she had never shot a gun. However, my guns sealed the deal. She said if I treated her as good as I treated my guns then she would be treated well. :D

Since then she has a S&W 38, Taurus 38, NAA .22, Benelli Montefeltro and Taurus PT709!
 
I screened my wife on this issue. She wouldn't be my wife if she had an issue with it.

As for others, they don't know I'm carrying so it's not an issue for them or me.

What are you doing that tells others you are carrying (GF aside)?
 
I deal with people like that by being careful not to let them know. I live near a liberal hotspot, and I do a bit of verbal fencing to learn a new friend's view on guns before I even let them know I shoot, let alone carry. I think there are only 3 close friends/family on earth who know I carry every day. (Well, one of our local cops also knows, but he's cool.)

I once accidentally flashed my piece to a liberal friend, and the resulting conversation was hurtful. I think I passed it off as being a special circumstance, which may have helped. Dunno.
 
We can play statistics all day, but violence can happen anywhere. Having a firearm and the training to use it effectively just gives you an extra option, should violence intersect your life.

Airliners don't experience a sudden loss of cabin pressure very often, but they all have supplemental oxygen masks hidden in the overheads!
 
SKS, OHEN
I also agree as an ccw holder Why would I ever.....never have it on me and in an undisclosed location not for instant axcess, I would not be able to attempt to convince other than my family and as sofar as they are concerned they feel opposite when they know I am not carrying and no one needs to know that I am carrying ever.
 
It's not worth it to me to get into big debates about it. If such a small issue (to me) "turns a person off" then they're not trying very hard to just accept me as I am, with all my inconsistencies. Heck, I've been a quiet vegetarian for over 30 years. I rarely mention that. I carry most of the time and almost never mention that. Hardly anyone knows. I don't see carrying as a right or left issue. I just grew up around guns (in the country) and always liked them. Nearly everyone had one when I was a kid. A majority of the people in my crazy city neighborhood have guns now too... though I don't REALLY KNOW how many of them are actually carrying most of the time. I'm just being relatively normal in my neighborhood envionment. No big deal.

"The interdependence of phenomenal causes and conditions is synonymous with the inherent emptiness of all things." - Lobsang P. Lhalungpa
 
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Evil doesn't make appointments!
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What if:
Hello, John???
This is Bob. I was just checking to see if you were coming to work, at the Post Office, tomorrow...
Yeah, I'll be there. I'm just calling everyone to get an idea of how much ammo I need to bring...
John??? You still there???
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Sometimes, when you try to defend your position with those who don't understand, it does seem like a waste of time, Or that they are unreachable.
This isn't the case, though. They, most likely, haven't been subjected to the scenarios that change lives.

Not wishing anything on anyone, but some seem to go through the motions, until they are forced to remove the blinders.

Just remember, that we are ALL ambassadors for our beliefs.

The only way to sway others' opinions, is to not let them see us waver.
We must remain vigilant, and always act accordingly.
 
Generally nobody else knows, my wife used to get weird if she knew, until a panhandler got a little rough with her. Fortunately all it took was a solid kick in his backside to end the situation, but know she doesn't care.
 
I don't carry, and don't care about those who do. I'd rather have them around when something goes down than not, but just because YOU think you need a gun to step outside your house doesn't mean someone is crazy for thinking otherwise. in fact, to most people, you're the crazy one.

I've gone my whole life without ever needing a gun on me and i'm still here...crazy, huh?
 
Friends know. There ain't many, but they are like minded and carry themselves. They would have my back and I theirs.

Aquaintences don't know.
 
Those kind of friend think diversity is sooo great-except guns and killing babies. Then it is their way or the highway.
 
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