going out to eat and seating

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I try to not take "tactical lunches". But when I do, I use a Blackhawk Serpa chest rig, so that I can get to my gun in a hurry when I'm seated - if some tangos hit the local Chilis, I need to be able to drop my burger and get my CQB Tactical Destroyer in .455 Heffalump Magnum out in a hurry!
 
Usually, when possible, facing the door, gun (right side) to the wall. Not hard and fast rule though. Restaurants can be busy and I'm not waiting an hour for the "perfect" tactical table.
 
Ha ha ha.. Sorry I missed the daily NEWS of people getting ambushed at local IHOPs! What? Yes, its the pancakes with shifty eyes.
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Firepower,

I respect you for what you have to go through daily just to survive where you live. No doubt you are in harms way more often than any of us here in the States in our civilian lives. That being said, keep in mind that while rare, mass shootings do happen here. They sometimes happen in restaurants as well. Click the link and read the story of Dr. Susan Gratia-Hupp and the Luby's Diner massacre. She was one of the leading advocates in the passage of the TX CHL law. Had she been armed she may have been able to save her family members that day.

While most of us will go through our lives without ever having to stare down the barrel of a gun or at the point of a knife, many of us will (and have) survive(d) such incidents. Having a firearm at that critical time can mean the difference between your or your family's survival. Those of us who carry aren't doing so to live out some "Rambo" fantasy, we're doing so to protect our selves and our loved ones from real, though rare, dangers.

Thanks for your understanding,

RR
 
Because a responsible gun owner is prepared at all times. That’s why in the shower I put a 1911 in a condom and duct tape it to my thigh. Yes, reloads are taped to my other thigh. You never know when those scrubbing bubbles might attack.
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I keep a Super Redhawk hidden in my toilet tank.
 
I don’t have color coded conditions. I just go out and live. If something bad happens I just hope I respond appropriately. If that means running, then so be it. If there's no place to run, then hopefully I'll keep my head enough that I can use my firearm.
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+1! Me too.
 
I am sure that most posters aren't stressing about the possibility of armed conflict while enjoying a tasty burger, just giving some insight into their S/A while in resturants.

I always face the door after a good 360 scan. It's kinda funny when I eat at work with 4-5 other Coppers all wanting the same seat.
 
Don't sit next to the restrooms. ( Hostilities usually enter through the front/rear doors or the subject enters the restroom from the crowd to "gear up"; exits and that poor soul next to the "Johnny Door" gets the warm-up shot,
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Oh Noez! Hahaha

Thats horrible but so true
 
You talk about how parinoid we are, I ate at Famous Daves bbq the other day, 1 day latter I watch the news and a armed gun man came in a robbed the place. I like to have my back to the wall as well, but I will never give up the booth, way to comfortable!
 
You talk about how parinoid we are, I ate at Famous Daves bbq the other day, 1 day latter I watch the news and a armed gun man came in a robbed the place.
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How many people got killed during incident because they were sitting in the wrong seat?
 
Is it considered bad form to eat from the plate of the guy who just got shot at a restaurant? I mean, no sense letting good food go to waste, right?
 
Is it considered bad form to eat from the plate of the guy who just got shot at a restaurant? I mean, no sense letting good food go to waste, right?
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Come over and clean my screen fat man, its got half a Mocha Breve on it and my beard looks like I dipped my face in chocolate pudding

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Wildpostoftheyear!Alaska ™
 
Is it considered bad form to eat from the plate of the guy who just got shot at a restaurant? I mean, no sense letting good food go to waste, right?
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This is precisely why I carry needle-nose pliers right next to my carry piece. If anyone gets shot and killed, they're sure not going to be needing any dental gold.
 
You guys are macabre.....

Hey what if its a super model that gets shot...;)

Or Rosie:eek:

WildforgetitjustrhetoricalinthehopesthemodspressthebuttonAlaska
 
I try to be able to keep an eye on the door, doesn't always work as my totally oblivious wife just has to get in from the right. Ticks me off in some places more than others. I like to be where I can best cover her, but right leg in first will always be most important to her.
 
Is it considered bad form to eat from the plate of the guy who just got shot at a restaurant? I mean, no sense letting good food go to waste, right?
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Thanks, I needed that today......that would make sig line of the year. :D
 
This thread is Wonderful!

koolminx - It may be much harder for you to understand that priority #1 is to survive, even if that means not engaging. But then, most of us don't have the advantage of exuding an aura of badness that will make Chuck Norris and Vin Diesel belly crawl out the back door when we walk in either.
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That's true, most of us don't... I do :D

That was funny as hell, thanks!

I fully understood what you wrote to me that I left out of the quotes but you probably already know that :)


-K
 
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