Sam1911
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Well, that wasn't perhaps directed at anyone in particular, but I agree with limiting those visits if you're able. (And I tend to carry in a lot of places I've been told are pretty edgy ... though legal.)
BLB68 said:Thread title doesn't make sense. I'll carry when I decide to, not blindly follow some internet tautology.
Au contraire.
Leaving your gun in the car for 3-5 minutes once a month (or once every several months, in my case) is an entirely different proposition from leaving your gun in the car in the parking lot all day, every day...or leaving your "truck gun" in your vehicle 24/7, year round.
The latter is irresponsible, IMHO. The former is a very occasional and necessary evil.
I am in the camp of one of our local TX CHL contributors. His sig line is "Carry 24/7 or guess right." Within the limits of the law, I do exactly that.
Here in PA the courthouse rule is the same. (Texas is MUCH better though!)
I'm curious as to what you are saying here.
One of the reasons I hate jury duty so much here in Texas is that there is no provision for you to bring a legally carried handgun into a courthouse, and no requirement for them to provide you a place to store it.
Let's say I'm about to depart my house, and I have a number of stops over the next several hours:
--post office, campus, church, grocery store, then back home--
I can't carry in the post office, can't even legally have a gun in the car in the parking lot. So, no gun. Unless I come back home and get it, I'm now unarmed all day.