TacticalDefense1911
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I carry "to be on the safe side" and because I can by law.
How important is it for you to carry gun?
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ElectricHellfire
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Cause I can. (also just in case) 
I feel naked without my gun. It's Just like my wallet, phone or keys. It's just not right if I do not have it. Cell phone gets the cops moving toward my position to help me. They'll arrive in a matter of minutes; unfortunately I may only have seconds. Thank god for my gun and my right to have it.
cchardwick
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Very interesting post!
I used to live in the baddest of bad neighborhoods, way before I was into the gun thing. They would steal my flowers in front of my house, break windows and steal stereos out of cars, run over people with cars, shootings on the next block... one night I looked out my window at 1:30 AM and saw some guys running down the street with a couch! They would put your car up on blocks and steal your wheels, real bad place. I didn't carry then but if I still lived there I would.
That reminds me of the time some punk came up to my car right in front of my house and he was saying something (yelling and swearing but I didn't know it because my stereo was so loud). Well I stopped and fumbled for my window controls, didn't know where they were because it was a newer car. Well when I found the controls, right before I rolled the window down the guy did a 180 and ran as fast as he could. I think that he thought I was going to pull a gun. Got out of that one and I didn't even realize what was going on until it was over!
Now I live in a totally different environment. I left the city and live in the mountains, no bad guys, no crime, I can even leave the keys in my vehicles all year and no one will bother them. BUT now I have a new problem - dangerous game! Bears, mountain lions, packs of wild dogs, wolves, coyotes and deer (believe it or not there have been reports and videos on Youtube of coyotes and deer attacking people). Now every time I'm out in the back yard or in the woods I always carry just for defence against dangerous game. In fact when I got my CCW I didn't even think about shooting a bad guy, only a mountain lion. And believe me, I have been stalked by HUGE mountain lions!
Some guy at church was elk hunting with his son, both of them over 6 feet tall. One time a mountain lion jumped on the father, came out of no where and at one point he was flat on his back with a paw on each shoulder and a mountain lion breathing in his face! Somehow the mountain lion got his paw stuck in his pack and jumped off of the father and went for the son. They had just enough time to shoot the big cat. This was never reported and the dead cat is still frozen up on the mountain, but it made me realize that I have to always carry around here if I'm to survive! It's funny, city folks come up here to the mountains to go hiking or whatever and when they see you have a gun they laugh because they are oblivious to the dangers out there.
I used to live in the baddest of bad neighborhoods, way before I was into the gun thing. They would steal my flowers in front of my house, break windows and steal stereos out of cars, run over people with cars, shootings on the next block... one night I looked out my window at 1:30 AM and saw some guys running down the street with a couch! They would put your car up on blocks and steal your wheels, real bad place. I didn't carry then but if I still lived there I would.
That reminds me of the time some punk came up to my car right in front of my house and he was saying something (yelling and swearing but I didn't know it because my stereo was so loud). Well I stopped and fumbled for my window controls, didn't know where they were because it was a newer car. Well when I found the controls, right before I rolled the window down the guy did a 180 and ran as fast as he could. I think that he thought I was going to pull a gun. Got out of that one and I didn't even realize what was going on until it was over!
Now I live in a totally different environment. I left the city and live in the mountains, no bad guys, no crime, I can even leave the keys in my vehicles all year and no one will bother them. BUT now I have a new problem - dangerous game! Bears, mountain lions, packs of wild dogs, wolves, coyotes and deer (believe it or not there have been reports and videos on Youtube of coyotes and deer attacking people). Now every time I'm out in the back yard or in the woods I always carry just for defence against dangerous game. In fact when I got my CCW I didn't even think about shooting a bad guy, only a mountain lion. And believe me, I have been stalked by HUGE mountain lions!
Some guy at church was elk hunting with his son, both of them over 6 feet tall. One time a mountain lion jumped on the father, came out of no where and at one point he was flat on his back with a paw on each shoulder and a mountain lion breathing in his face! Somehow the mountain lion got his paw stuck in his pack and jumped off of the father and went for the son. They had just enough time to shoot the big cat. This was never reported and the dead cat is still frozen up on the mountain, but it made me realize that I have to always carry around here if I'm to survive! It's funny, city folks come up here to the mountains to go hiking or whatever and when they see you have a gun they laugh because they are oblivious to the dangers out there.
I just got my CCW last week. I do not live in a dangerous area. I thought I would only carry when I was going somewhere that would justify it. I actually feel a little uncomfortable carrying, in the sense that I view people that carry as a bit paranoid.
However, one of the arguments in favor of citizens carrying weapons is that they have the capability to prevent violent crimes. I believe and made this argument. The argument fails, if citizens choose not to carry their guns. A gun in a safe at home will do no good. Since I have no idea if or when I may need to defend myself or others, it makes sense that I carry as often as is practical.
However, one of the arguments in favor of citizens carrying weapons is that they have the capability to prevent violent crimes. I believe and made this argument. The argument fails, if citizens choose not to carry their guns. A gun in a safe at home will do no good. Since I have no idea if or when I may need to defend myself or others, it makes sense that I carry as often as is practical.
Well, if I were a criminal, I'd go places where folks like you live and shop. You'd never see me coming. I know I'd do that, because that's what real criminals do.
Some of the worst crimes imaginable happen to good people in good neighborhoods. Odds are it won't happen to you. Odds are 100% that it'll happen to someone in spite of the great odds in their favor.
If you can pick and choose (successfully) where you'll need a gun, I hope you're invested in the stock market, or take up sports betting.
Learn to carry properly, and you self consciousness will go away. It'll become natural.
Sorry I couldn't participate in the poll. I don't carry for fun, and I don't carry "just in case", etc. I didn't see a box to check the covers why most of us carry.
I carry so I can protect myself from violent criminal attacks that happen to good folks every day in "safe" places where it wasn't supposed to happen.
I'm so sick of seeing people on the news saying something like "things like that just don't happen in our neighborhood (after it did happen)", or "he seemed like such a nice guy, we trusted him with our kids", after their neigbor was arrested for......well, we all see the news.
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Firepower!
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17% of us carry because of circumstances we live in.
That is pretty bad!
That is pretty bad!
If you could add a category for those of us who WOULD but cannot due to state law limits on CCW issuance, that's where I'd be (**NJ**)
I'm not so sure I'd carry everyday (i.e. to/from work, in the day light), but if I was going to be somewhere late at night or somewhere potentially empty (i.e. coming out of a movie at 1am or something) I'd probably carry then.
I'm not so sure I'd carry everyday (i.e. to/from work, in the day light), but if I was going to be somewhere late at night or somewhere potentially empty (i.e. coming out of a movie at 1am or something) I'd probably carry then.
isanchez2008
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wtdf661-very well put, but your view of life leaves no room for the armed responsible citizen who is not law enforcement or military. A nation with 100% sheep and the only ones armed are le or gov't??? Sure hope not.
I carry just in case. My whole family witnessed a murder on our way to church. Stopped at a stop light and there was a fight between some wanna be gangsters. One took it to the next level when he ran back to his car and grabbed his "gat". He came back and shot the guy who had been thumping on him. At ten years old I had my "eyes ripped open" to the brutality of life. I do not live in fear of that situation since I am nothing like those people, but I don't want to be victim to those people. I now live in a small town but I am not so ignorant as to believe that because it is a quiet peaceful town the wolves wont come a knocking. My 2 cents and opinion.
I carry just in case. My whole family witnessed a murder on our way to church. Stopped at a stop light and there was a fight between some wanna be gangsters. One took it to the next level when he ran back to his car and grabbed his "gat". He came back and shot the guy who had been thumping on him. At ten years old I had my "eyes ripped open" to the brutality of life. I do not live in fear of that situation since I am nothing like those people, but I don't want to be victim to those people. I now live in a small town but I am not so ignorant as to believe that because it is a quiet peaceful town the wolves wont come a knocking. My 2 cents and opinion.
Citizenship and Family
Mostly no immediate threat, so I carry to be prepared. But I *always* carry when travelling to our two larger urban areas (HOU or DAL). Places there can be s-c-a-r-y.
I'm in on the US of A thang and feel it's a patriotic (and to a degree Christian) duty to be prepared. Besides of which, it is something I can do to protect my one big and two little sweeties should need ever arise.
Let's see, that's God, country, family...oh yeah, my mom makes a killer apple pie (but I drive a Ford).
FBT
Mostly no immediate threat, so I carry to be prepared. But I *always* carry when travelling to our two larger urban areas (HOU or DAL). Places there can be s-c-a-r-y.
I'm in on the US of A thang and feel it's a patriotic (and to a degree Christian) duty to be prepared. Besides of which, it is something I can do to protect my one big and two little sweeties should need ever arise.
Let's see, that's God, country, family...oh yeah, my mom makes a killer apple pie (but I drive a Ford).
FBT
orionengnr
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As usual, your poll choices are short-sighted and unnecessarily divisive/inflammatory, and none of the choices is accurate for me, or (I suspect) a number of others. Do you actually do this on purpose? Having observed many of your posts and (especially) your polls, I have to wonder...
To answer your question directly: I carry because I have the God-given, Constitutionally-affirmed right to do so. Period. End of story.
To answer your question directly: I carry because I have the God-given, Constitutionally-affirmed right to do so. Period. End of story.
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skydiver3346
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Why do I carry a gun?
To be on the safe side for sure. Your selection about being on the safe side also includes (when there really isn't a threat?).
How do you know when a threat will happen. How do you know when you will need to defend youself and/or family? The reality is: "YOU DON'T KNOW" so I carry a gun because I personally feel I need to, (living where I live) in the murder capital of my state. Remember, its too late to go out and try and buy a gun when you finally have to have one in the event the need arises. Best to be safe rather than sorry I would think.
To be on the safe side for sure. Your selection about being on the safe side also includes (when there really isn't a threat?).
How do you know when a threat will happen. How do you know when you will need to defend youself and/or family? The reality is: "YOU DON'T KNOW" so I carry a gun because I personally feel I need to, (living where I live) in the murder capital of my state. Remember, its too late to go out and try and buy a gun when you finally have to have one in the event the need arises. Best to be safe rather than sorry I would think.
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