So, how many carry doing yard work?

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Of course I carry while doing yard work. Do I live in downtown Richmond? Did
Ray Dandridge and Ricky Gevon execute a family of four here? Were we high on the murder capital list for years?

Most of the people here are wonderful, but there are a few real losers. Okay, a couple more than a few.
 
While I am not as adamant about carrying in my house I have started to feel naked if I leave the house without a gun. Went to the fireworks on the 4th with the wife and kids and had to leave the gun because it was on school property. Next year if we go to a show we are going somewhere that I can carry.

Oh and yes I definitely carry while doing yardwork.
 
I'm sure glad I work where I'm allowed to wear pants. However, no guns. Says so right in the employee manual. But two employees have mounted animal heads in their offices and two even used to work for the NRA.
 
I carry while doing yard work. When I'm awake, I have a handgun on me. When I shower, there's one on the hamper, under a towel just outside the shower. We have an in ground swimming pool. I lay one inside a towel on the side of the pool where I'll spend the most time. What I'm trying to convey is that a lot of us have been so used to carrying for so long that we've incorporated it into our daily lives. It's a very ingrained habit for many of us.

And by the way, I now live in an ok neighborhood, have great neighbors & have no known enemies that I'm aware of. But I still carry a pistol at all times when I'm awake. Yard work being no exception.
 
Im not perinoid but Im armed from the time my feet hit the floor in the AM untill my head hits the pillow.Its my good luck charm,nothing has ever happened while Ive been armed like to keep it that way.
Besides my pants dont fit right with out one in the waist band.
 
I do between 25 and 30 hours of mowing/yard work weekly for thirty weeks out of the year and wear a gun if I'm wearing pants and I don't work naked.

Whatever reason a concealed permit holder can come up with for not being armed is invalid. Stay armed unless you're in a no carry zone.
 
Whatever reason a concealed permit holder can come up with for not being armed is invalid
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ReallY? How about its a pain in the butt to walk around with a gun when your personal odds of getting hit by lightning are greater than the odds of you needing a gun.

And I look like hell with a lightning rod on my head.

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So since I live in IL, you're damn right I carry in my yard. OC! The only place besides inside my house I can carry! Damn! All you SoIL shooters need to pony up and write your legislators! REALLY!
 
Odds of getting struck by lightning in one's lifetime: ~10/100,000

Odds of being a victim of violent crime in a given year: ~450/100,000
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Would you agree that your odds of being hit by lightening go up if you're a avid golfer in Florida and your odds of being a victim of violent crime go down if you live in a middle class suburb?
 
does your average criminal leave his weapon off at the house to do some work?

so why should you the victim be without yours
 
If I'm wearing pants, I have 2 guns on me. If I'm not wearing pants, I probably still have one gun on me.

Half the time wear I a shoulder holster when I'm naked. My gf thinks it's secksy. Slight beer gut and shoulder holster, very secksy.:p

I wear pants when I do yard/garden work.
 
I carry, but not for the usual reason. I live a fair ways out in the high desert and rattlesnakes are always a hazard when doing weed control.
 
"How about its a pain in the butt to walk around with a gun when your personal odds of getting hit by lightning are greater than the odds of you needing a gun."

Not sure where you came up with that statistic, but it's WILDLY wrong.
 
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Odds of getting struck by lightning in one's lifetime: ~10/100,000
Odds of being a victim of violent crime in a given year: ~450/100,000
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Would you agree that your odds of being hit by lightening go up if you're a avid golfer in Florida and your odds of being a victim of violent crime go down if you live in a middle class suburb?
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Definitely! Odds go up even further on getting struck by lightning if one starts waving their club in the air during a thunderstorm in the middle of the golf course, too! Being a non-person-of-color walking through certain parts of Memphis @ 1 AM would raise your odds as well! :D

The odds I'd mentioned are just bell-curve odds. When one starts breaking the "3 S Rule" (going to stupid places, doing stupid things, hanging with stupid people) their odds of being a victim of violence skyrockets. These days my odds of engaging violence are definitely lower than when I was in my late teens-early twenties on the streets of Chicago. However, it doesn't hurt to have insurance and not break the "3 S Rule". ;)
 
Not sure where you came up with that statistic, but it's WILDLY wrong.
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Really? You know my personal odds then? How much 3S I indulge in, where I live etc?

WilditsallinthepersonaloddsAlaska ™©2002-2011
 
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A bit cavalier. What about random violence; as in, "I didn't go looking for it, but it happened to find me" variety?

As someone who has had bullets flying by my head, with NO effort in anyway shape or form on my part to be in that particular position, I find your argument to be bordering on rude or ignorant; or possibly a combination of both.

How hard would it be for you to just say, "I was wrong. The odds appear to be lesser of being struck by lightening."
 
A bit cavalier. What about random violence; as in, "I didn't go looking for it, but it happened to find me" variety?
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Thats life. Its all about the odds that are personal to me. Thus, I wear my seatbelt because Alaska drivers truly suck, I try to buy a junker in the winter because Alaska winter drivers suck more, I dont go to certain neighborhoods and if I do, I carry, I eat eggs with runny yolks, raw oysters and juicy pork but the bear is always well done.

I dont deal drugs, dont hang out in gang areas, dont hardly go out after 8pm and when I do its usally because I am working in a bar and I cant carry anyway but leave one in the car. I dont wear a lightning rod helmet, I dont smoke (cigarettes). I dont go to shul or wear a kipah or star of david

When I go down to vegas back and forth over the next few months, I will carry again (thread to follow).

Its not cavalier, its all about how I can live my life free of encumbrances. A gun is an encumbrance and it pisses me off that I would even need to have one. Even in the shop I dont bother (although I sit with a sawed off under my desk)

WildoandidonteatalotoffriedfoodsanditakeanaspirineverydayplusfiberAlaska ™©2002-2011

And honestly, I lead my life my way, y'all lead yours your way. Although my way of life is superior and godlike in its essence :p, I just object to folks preaching that every waking hour REQUIRES a gun. maybe for some of you, ja, if I lived in Richmond VA I would too. But not in Grosse Point, Michigan
 
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