Are you armed when you go on road trips with your family?

[SpatiallyAware]

If not, why not?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom


"According to the testimony of the medical examiner, Channon's death came after hours of torture, having suffered injuries to her vagina, anus and mouth. She was raped with an unidentified object and beaten in the head. It was also reported that her body was scrubbed with bleach which was also poured down her throat, in an attempt by her attackers to remove DNA evidence, while Channon was still alive. She was then bound with curtains and strips of bedding, her face covered with a bin liner and her body stashed within five large bin bags, before being placed inside a residential waste disposal unit and covered with sheets. The medical examiner said there was evidence that Channon slowly suffocated to death"

 

[xBiffx]

Armed every second that I am not at work. They don't allow weapons and I don't care to risk my career to disagree.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

What does that have to do with road trips? It says they were abducted from a parking lot. My family has gone on numerous road trips along the southern border (we or near family has lived everywhere between California and Texas along the border, plus Nevada and Colorado) and it's not like kidnappers are going to come out of nowhere at the middle of McDonald's or wherever we happen to eat.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

What does that have to do with road trips? It says they were abducted from a parking lot. My family has gone on numerous road trips along the southern border (we or near family has lived everywhere between California and Texas along the border, plus Nevada and Colorado) and it's not like kidnappers are going to come out of nowhere at the middle of McDonald's or wherever we happen to eat.

Kidnappers and thug attackers can show up anywhere. Often times they travel to nice areas to look for people to abduct, hopefully just to drive you to an ATM and have you withdraw money before patting you on the head and letting you go.


What you would you do if 3 thugs walked up on you and demanded you take them to an ATM or your home?

 

[kage69]

Yes.

 

[woolfe9998]

No, I've never carried a gun in my life, except for occasional target shooting, and I've never been attacked. I don't walk around in dangerous areas at night. I'll tolerate the marginal risks of not carrying in safer circumstances.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Kidnappers and thug attackers can show up anywhere. Often times they travel to nice areas to look for people to abduct, hopefully just to drive you to an ATM and have you withdraw money before patting you on the head and letting you go.


What you would you do if 3 thugs walked up on you and demanded you take them to an ATM or your home?

I smack them with my jo.

 

[spidey07]

Yes, especially when I'm traveling. Most of the folks I'm traveling with are as well. Be it my wife or my fishing buddies. If it's a state we don't know, check the self defense and CCDW reciprocity laws first.

It's funny, the work parking lot says "no firearms" and I can just about guarantee you half of the gloveboxes have a weapon in them.

 

[Fern]

Yes, usually.

Fern

 

[Smoblikat]

Kidnappers and thug attackers can show up anywhere. Often times they travel to nice areas to look for people to abduct, hopefully just to drive you to an ATM and have you withdraw money before patting you on the head and letting you go.


What you would you do if 3 thugs walked up on you and demanded you take them to an ATM or your home?

I would pull out my magnum and hold them at gunpoint until I retrieve my AK-47, at which point I would demand that they give me their shoes...........because I can.

 

[irishScott]

Depends on the legalities of where I'm going.

But I don't feel any less safe unarmed.

 

[Doppel]

No, don't own a pistol. Best way to keep safe is to avoid shitty areas. You can be assaulted anywhere, but really the chances of it happening on a family vacation to a nice spot are so slim as to literally not worry oneself with. I realize I've spent so much time out of crowded cities that when I'm around a lot of people in one I feel uncomfortable, like a fish in a barrel, completely at the whim of the mass of flesh and/or increasingly likely to come across some untreated psychopath. I love the suburbs.

 

[Lithium381]

Long trips, yep! Just around town, not usually.

 

[Lithium381]

I don't understand HOW those people did that to her .. . there are laws against it and police all around to enforce those laws . . . sad.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

LOL, America.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

No because as the data shows, I'm safer without one.

Why on earth would I want to vacation somewhere unsafe?

 

[irishScott]

No because as the data shows, I'm safer without one.

Why on earth would I want to vacation somewhere unsafe?

Actually there's no valid data that shows that. I went round and round with eskimopie in Discussion club over the Oxford study you're likely referencing. Even he concedes that the study doesn't apply to everyone.

In any case, I carry a gun in safe areas where legal. I also wear a seatbelt when I drive 5 mph. *shrug*

It would depend on the vacation. I wouldn't wear a gun on the beach, but if I'm walking around a city in my regular clothes, why not?

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

As I have pointed out numerous times on these forums there has been a concerted effort on the part of certain lobby groups and lawmakers to under report gun "incidents", which makes some of the statistical analysis challenging.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States#Research_limitations

 

[nickbits]

No nor am I paranoid or afraid. Whatever happens, happens.

 

[spidey07]

I avoid the fucked up states when traveling.

 

[berzerker60]

No, I'm not a coward who can't handle that real life isn't a 100% safe place and need to cower behind the false bravado of a gun.

 

[bononos]

I would pull out my magnum and hold them at gunpoint until I retrieve my AK-47, at which point I would demand that they give me their shoes...........because I can.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Depends on the legalities of where I'm going.

But I don't feel any less safe unarmed.

Absolutely true. Can't go into a bar with one, for example.

I'm getting a UT CPL and OR CPL to add to my WA one though so I can travel to more places while armed.

 

[monovillage]

I used to carry when traveling, but then I lost all my firearms in a tragic boating accident.

 

[khon]

I don't own a gun, nor does anyone in my family, and I've never gone armed anywhere.

I have travelled to 40+ countries at this point, and I've really never felt the need to be armed in any of them.

Of course anyone can become the victim of a crime, but I honestly feel that caution and avoidance or more likely to protect me than armed resistance is.