P5 Guy
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I now live where I use to vacation, and carry everywhere, got it made.
Welcome to Florida. July is a challenge. A fanny pack makes carry more comfortable when the temperature and humidity are both 90 plus
I now live where I use to vacation, and carry everywhere, got it made.
Which one do you want to use for me? I use it's just not worth the hassle for the extremely remote possibility of ever wanting a gun when I'm out and about around town.
I just absolutely LOVE IT when people who don't carry everywhere all the time are insulted for that choice. Love it.
Welcome to Florida. July is a challenge. A fanny pack makes carry more comfortable when the temperature and humidity are both 90 plus
Yes.There are risks involved in carrying, and risks involved in not carrying. You have to weigh them against each other. This is not an automatic decision
"Potentially" icy surface? Do you mean like anywhere outside in this part of Idaho anytime from 2 weeks ago (opening day of deer season BTW) until sometime next May?Yes.
I choose to not carry if I have to walk on a potentially icy surface.
My concern in a slip-and-fall would be damaging the gun, almost as much as injuring myself. I guess you have to be a collector to understand this.I choose to not carry if I have to walk on a potentially icy surface.
My concern in a slip-and-fall would be damaging the gun, almost as much as injuring myself. I guess you have to be a collector to understand this.
Yep. Six years ago on Thanksgiving morning, I slipped and fell coming down a muddy slope while out pheasant hunting. I broke my ankle in 3 places and put a spiral break up my right fibula. But my old Browning A-5 "Light-12" was okay once I got the mud cleaned off, and out of it.They are tougher than you are in most cases.
My concern in a slip-and-fall would be damaging the gun, almost as much as injuring myself. I guess you have to be a collector to understand this.
Whereon earth did that come from?We have folks saying freedom is NOT being able to carry a gun
Falling on a gun can lead to serious injury....and then worrying about slipping and falling as a reason to not carry a gun.
"Subvert the gun community"? That is far beyond absurd.I swear I think we have people here trying to subvert the gun comm
I swear I think we have people here trying to subvert the gun community.
My wife and I were at a Denny’s eating. The folks inside started acting concerned, I asked a waitress what was going on. She said the gas station next door was just robbed. My wife leaned over and said “you do have your gun don’t you?” I said, of course. She said “just checking”.
That hit home for me some, although I was carrying constantly at the time. It reinforced the need.
Then there was an attempted kidnapping at a Walmart a town over that we sometimes visit. That hit home. I don’t know the details.
Then there was the guy that was doing some light stalking on the wife. When we lived in the edge of the town. He’d drive by and watch. When we’d notice he’d drive off in a hurry. Once he hollered at her as he drove by. One day he waved for her to come out to his truck. He had a buddy with him that time. Would he have grabbed her and took off? Or just sweet talked her?
Right or wrong, Not only do I carry everywhere I can, I avoid places I cannot carry.
When something like that happens a time or two, one tends to pay more attention to carrying, if it is permitted. I've been there.I was wishing I were armed, for sure...
No Kleanbore, you said "potentially" icy surface. All I was trying to point out was that in this part of Idaho, if I was to not carry a gun when I am outside because I was afraid of slipping and falling on it, I wouldn't be carrying for about 6 months out of the year. It's "potentially" slippery out there for 6 months out of the year in this part of the state, and we have a saying - "If you don't like the weather in SE Idaho, wait 10 minutes and it will change."It may be much more prudent to not carry in icy conditions.
Well its official, this thread HAS gone off the rails.
We have folks saying freedom is NOT being able to carry a gun and then worrying about slipping and falling as a reason to not carry a gun.
I swear I think we have people here trying to subvert the gun community.
Spot on.
That is applicable beyond carry or not, but also to what is carried.
Many who carry a 5 shot snub will post how they feel 5 shots is enough, or they feel protected.
I can post examples where 5 hits failed to quickly incapacitate a single attacker, invariably these examples are inapplicable to them, rationalized, dismissed.
Not carrying when one otherwise could because they don't feel the need, its a burden, they don't have the energy...
Which of these most accurately describes that (pick one):
-proactive
-prepared
-lackadaisical
Referring to conditions in which precipitation is expected and temperatures are falling. I have hit the ground after having left the house in such conditions. Fortunately, I have not fallen on a handgun in such conditions.No Kleanbore, you said "potentially" icy surface.