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Do you carry a weapon?

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Do you carry a weapon (usually)?

  • I carry a firearm.

  • I carry a chemical deterrent.

  • I carry a blade.

  • I carry something else.

  • I do not carry a weapon (usually).

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Live on campus, so no. 🙁 I'd carry my Ruger Security Six .357 mag or S&W .40 if I could.

I have a Gerber 626 I carry occasionally.
 
 
Matthiasa said:
Because your gun matters when they pull theirs on you first... 🙁
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I don't know about you but I don't walk down dark alleys texting so someone suspicious can get that close to me and surprise me. I kinda notice people checking me out or following me or waiting to get the drop on me. Someone walking towards me with their hands in their pockets or under their shit has a way of getting my attention before they are anywhere near me.

Even when some random harmless looking random dude walks up to me to beg for change or something, I'm watching his hands, and glancing around for potential friends.

One day some guy was road raging and thought he would get out and walk up to my car and share some words with me at the light. While I watching him get out of the car in my side view, making sure it was only him, I was checking out his hands and waist as he started walking toward my door. While this was going on, *my* hands had already unholstered my weapon and took the safety off and placed it in my lap below the window line. He never even saw that weapon, said what he had to say, I replied with "yeah ok man whatever you say" and he went back to his car.

Contrast that with the numb chill you get when you see the same unstable person with a gun walking up to you, YOU don't have one, and are stuck in traffic with nowhere to go, feeling completely fucked. No thank you.

If you take any kind of firearms course, 90% of the course has nothing to do with guns.
 
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exdeath said:
Internet tough guys sigh.

Until some 90 lb crack head 17 year old puts a 9mm hole through your aorta for the $20 in your wallet.

I m 6'3" 220, have black belts and Im a formidable fighter, especially owing to my mind over matter mental conditioning. I still carry an HK .40. None of the above means squat when your body is physically disabled and unable to function mechanically by someone half your size with no regard for another person's life, liberty, and property.
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You must live in a real shithole if you have to worry about such things.
Besides, if the 90 pound kid is gonna shoot you...he's gonna shoot you...odds are, you won't have time to defend yourself with your handgun...unless, that is, you're Quickdraw McGraw.
 
BoomerD said:
You must live in a real shithole if you have to worry about such things.
Besides, if the 90 pound kid is gonna shoot you...he's gonna shoot you...odds are, you won't have time to defend yourself with your handgun...unless, that is, you're Quickdraw McGraw.
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Here we go again, see my previous posts in this thread. If you let someone you don't know just walk up to you with their hands concealed, especially under strange circumstances like out alone, in the dark, etc, and you don't keep your distance or present a defensive posture, then you have already failed. If you give someone the chance to draw on you first, you better hope all they want is your wallet.
 
sourceninja said:
I'm 30, I don't know a single person who would have ever needed the following

1) A first aid kit.
2) A fire extinguisher
3) A fire alarm
4) A carbon monoxide alarm

Yet everyone I know has these things. To assume you will at some point in your life need these items IS being paranoid.

Other paranoid items I own that I will probably never use.

Weather radio, hand crank flash light, bottled water/MRE food (anyone who had to live though a time where they couldn't reach a store is with me here), UPS backup systems, Gas generator, jumper cables, portable battery charger/jumper, network backup storage, off-site backup, home alarm system, dead bolt locks, steel security doors on outside, a spare tire in each car, full coverage insurance (really, like it could ever be my fault....), home owners insurance, flood insurance, computer antivirus, etc. The list goes on and on.

I was taught to be prepared.
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I get out and about. I have needed a first aid kit more than once. I have needed a fire extinguisher. I have been saved by a smoke alarm.

Weather radio, crank flashlights and bottled water goes hand in hand with hurricane season here.

As far as packing, today I don't really have a need. I do carry an OC spray and a knife, but mostly for roaming dogs and just being handy.

I know a lot of late night bikers that carry and have had to pull out when some druggie/gangsta type thinks they will be an easy $20. Most of them are also martial arts trained/ex jock types...it's better to point your fucking handgun at someone approaching quickly making demands for money vs letting them get pissed and trying to pull out a Raven .22 and blast you.

Most that do carry have no need and are in reality more dangerous because of it. They are the ones that make our gun laws be so fucked up.
 
exdeath said:
Here we go again, see my previous posts in this thread. If you let someone you don't know just walk up to you with their hands concealed, especially under strange circumstances like out alone, in the dark, etc, and you don't keep your distance or present a defensive posture, then you have already failed. If you give someone the chance to draw on you first, you better hope all they want is your wallet.
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He's right, a sexy guy like me has to deal with a least a dozen attempted rapes every week. I'd pack heat, but I can't say I don't like the attention.
 
MarkXIX said:
I don't like it too much honestly. The hand grip is massive. The Army could definitely move to another pistol and be better off.
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They did, many years ago. The Navy got all their hand-me-downs. I know. Its what I used on guard duty the whole time I was in.
And you can get replacement grips. But not for a duty weapon, obviously.
 
The nice thing about the 92FS is the long barrel and huge sight radius (distance between front and rear sights), makes it deadly accurate and easy to aim. The more distance between the sights, the less "play" you have (think rifle vs pistol) between variation in the sights and the circle of error down range.

Definately on my WTB list. The only reason I don't have one is that I blew most of my gun money on a dozen assault rifles after the last presidential election. Figured I can always get a low profile handgun like the 92FS, it's the famous and symbolic stuff AR15s, AKs, etc, that draw all the liberals' attention.
 
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shortylickens said:
Good.

That keeps you from fucking around.

I currently live in Virginia, grew up in Minnesota and have been all over the world and much of the U.S. Believe me when I tell you people are LOT more fucking respectful in places where a sizable portion of the adult male population is licensed to carry.
The notion we should all get along and everybody's basically good inside is utter complete crap. Human beings are inherently selfish (part of the survival instinct) and unless they were raised properly by loving yet firm parents, theres a pretty good chance they are assholes and possibly dangerous if they never learned respect for human life.
Guns acknowledge the imperfections of the world. They dont make the world a bad place. They are inanimate objects.
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Really? Is kentucky one of those places? Yeah, they seem very respectful there...🙄

I wouldn't say I've been all over the world but I have been to Europe, Latin America, some Pacific Islands, and through much of North America, plus I've lived in a few major metropolitan areas for many years in this country and I find your views to be completely full of shit...honestly, I don't want to live in your world.

Take that from a fellow gun owner.
 
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shortylickens said:
They did, many years ago. The Navy got all their hand-me-downs. I know. Its what I used on guard duty the whole time I was in.
And you can get replacement grips. But not for a duty weapon, obviously.
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No, they didn't, trust me. The Army still uses the 92F almost exclusively. The only personnel in the Army that carry a different pistol are CID, Military Police Investigators (if their command authorizes it), and Special Forces units.

I have 183 M9 pistols on my unit property book.
 
my new XD9 w/ some extra mags usually. When I am at classes its usually the LCP.....When I can't carry I usually have a knife or my kung fu skills on me.
 
I only carry in my car. Most places I go I have it next to me, open carry. I don't bother trying to carry on my person. A sig p266 is sorta difficult for e to try and conceal.
 
Glock 30
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