How important is it for you to carry gun?

Why do you carry a gun on your person?

  • I am required by my location and circumstances

    Votes: 31 15.4%

  • I carry just to be on safe side, but there really isn't any immediate threat

    Votes: 143 71.1%

  • I carry for fun since I can llegally do so

    Votes: 9 4.5%

  • I dont carry on person. I leave gun at home

    Votes: 18 9.0%
  • Total voters
    201
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I will go State side again because you have some nice weather:)
but I do have to go to Sinclare International for somethings
I have no reason to go to Jane and Finch in Toronto (the only place that
I would carry if we could) other than that I have had no reason in 65 years
You do know that I live in Canada right, we don't need to.
 
+1 location and circumstances

I live in a populated area which has less security than the police station. There's no telling when some crazy nut will walk into the shopping mall, gas station, grocery store and start popping people left and right.

It doesn't happen that often, but it happens and I'd rather be ready for it than caught with my pants down.
 
I chose the first category, as it is a little closer to reality for me. While I live in a relatively obscure and remote (for police protection) area, . . . when I have to go to the village, . . . the choices are not at all good ones.

Cracktown is about 6 miles away, . . . shooter's alley is 10, . . . dumber-n-a-rock is about 12, . . . and little Somalia is 20. True, . . . there are a lot of real good folks living there, . . . but there is also a much greater percentage of goblins, bg's, thugs, and thieves there than here on my 10 acres.

Being over 60, . . . minor heart problems, . . . one bum knee, . . . and not really willing to rassle some punk kid 1/3 my age so he doesn't knife me, . . . I carry my 1911.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
YYou need to read some of the CWP restrictions.) and were do I get this
Just in case I come down there and want to strap one on.
Because I don't need to carry up here.
I was just try to find out why people need to carry and you get bent out of shape.
I'm not trying to take your rights away I just ask a ??
 
I was just try to find out why people need to carry and you get bent out of shape.
I'm not trying to take your rights away I just ask a ??
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Well, the part where you just asked was well received and many answered the question.

The part about being afraid you'll be shot by a trigger happy citizen licensed to carry is what aroused some posters.

Once again, why do some (usually anti-gun) folks express little concern for repeat, violent, armed felons who are the streets of American and Canadian cities as well, but are quick to express concerned over law abiding armed citizens who have to meet requirements before they can be armed?

I don't expect you to answer the question, but perhaps you might think about it.
 
I'm not going to vote at this moment, because I don't carry (I don't have a permit yet, and it would be hard to conceal an SKS or a shotgun very easily). But my goal for this upcoming year is to get a permit and a handgun to carry. I do live in one of the worse parts of town, but I have been lucky to no have anything too much of value to steal (besides my guns, but they are locked up next to me in the bedroom).

I did have a bicycle stolen from me once, but no big deal. But my roommate's gf's car was stolen from in front of the house. I was out of town for the week, and locks on my beater Scout don't work anyways, so I'm surprised they took hers and not my Scout. Maybe they tried, and got frustrated at trying to start the damn thing.
 
I carry to have control over my own fate. It is a great responsibility and that makes me more aware of my surroundings and planing for "what if..." scenarios. Just lalala-ing through life dosn't make much sense when you think about it.

In reading these posts I see where there were armed robberys of Dunkin Doughnut stores in South Carolina. The same thing has happened here twice in the last few days, with the BG's downing one victim with a shotgun blast...You just never know where this stuff will go down.

Bob
 
I carry to have control over my own fate.
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There you go, Relee. Neither one of us think that having a say so in whether we live or die means on our knees in a back room begging for our lives.:cool:
 
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Same boat as RedPhnx

Except I'm in Hawai'i, a "may issue" state that doesn't and just won't. Would if I could, because as nearly as I can tell, we still live in America.

The crime rate here on Maui is pretty low, with serious crime and murder fairly rare, but 'ice' (crystal meth) has taken quite a stong hold since the crackdowns on marijuana growers escalated in the late '80s, and they're starting to see armed and violent home invasions over on O'ahu.

Carry if you can, if you will, for those of us who can't. Thanks.
 
I live in VA, a "right to carry" state. If you have a clean record and take the safety course you can legally carry concealed. That said, the average person is neither competent or prepared to produce and use a weapon in a confrontation. Shooting paper targets at a range is not being prepared, even if you hit 999/1000. I know law enforcement officers who aren't prepared either so don't feel bad. My opinion is to carry if your personal situation requires it, if you are mentally & physically prepared, and if you're competent to do so. Once the weapon is unholstered you're committed to end the confrontation ASAP, preferably without using it. PS: Never produce a weapon to "help" the police, that's the best way to get shot. All that said, if you feel that you need to carry for personal protection, go ahead if you have the legal right to do so, just know your weapon and practice, practice, practice. Oh yeah, be sure you hit what you're aiming at.
 
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Just to be on the safe side.


I was raised to always be prepared. So having my firearm on my person is just one of the tools I carry with me to do so.



starshooter231
 
I carry a firearm most of the time (airports and court houses among the places I do not). As others have stated, it is a matter of being prepared for what might happen - like insurance, fire extinguishers and flash lights - you never know when one may be needed.
 
I voted for "safe side," since I live in a very safe small town where there is almost no crime ... (an afterhours break-in at a local restaurant made headlines in the local weekly for several weeks). But I also carry because I can, and I think it's important for handgun owners to get licensed to carry even if they don't plan to. Numbers are the only thing politicians listen to (well, and bags of money), so wouldn't it be better for our side if there were a million Texans licensed instead of half a million (or whatever the current figure is?) The more people licensed, the less the pols will find it attractive to mess with our rights.
 
Lots of good posts here.

I consider myself a sheepdog too.

For me, the probabilities are not high, but the stakes are.
 
state of IL does not allow

blago is going to b george ryan's new room mate...............lets get a gun totin leader here in illinois so i will be able to public carry to the easter egg hunt:cool:
 
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