Assuming you are a permit holder how often do you carry?

How often do you carry a firearm

  • less than 25%

    Votes: 66 15.1%
  • Between 25 & 50%

    Votes: 24 5.5%
  • Between 50 & 75%

    Votes: 45 10.3%
  • 100% (excepting places where carry is illegal)

    Votes: 230 52.6%
  • Between 75 & 100%

    Votes: 72 16.5%

  • Total voters
    437
  • Poll closed .
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So are you 100 percenters, all day everyday crowd claiming you carry in the shower? Just asking.

Well, I'm about a 90%'er, but no, but there's a loaded 1911 about 10 feet away. Sometimes you just gotta take risks. :rolleyes:
 
Why would you only carry outside of the house, when the House is probablly going to be the target. Bad guys rob houses, if you are in the house you should have immediate access to a gun. If not they get you, your belongings and your guns. As far as showers go, Next to the tub is a gun.Dogs, alarm, Gun. Wake up Dorthy this ain't Kansas any more. We have had our dogs scare away several Bad Guys over the years. When they cruise neighboorhoods, do you think they rob the crappy old house, or the one with the Mercedes and the Escalade in the driveway? I keep my Mercedes in the Garage all the time, unless I am in it. But you better rethink the not carrying in the house.
My Home invasion was in my home,Duh, they came to rob me, thinking I had payroll for my 5 stores and Christmass Bonus, money. They were wrong. If you have anything nice, a car a watch, a gun, people clock you. That's how you get robbed.
So if you say i don't want to live my life that way, then make sure you have no friends, or kids, or nice things, because people talk, they may be overheard talking about you. It might be an innocent conversation, "hey did you see all the guns joe has", next thing you know, Joe's house gets broken into. That's just the way it is.
 
Whenever and wherever legal.

As an elder statesman once said, "Carry 24/7 or guess right".
I don't trust my capacity for guessing.
 
Every day, everywhere I go that I won't be arrested, and prosecuted for exercising my RIGHT to SELF protection.
 
Now that I've read most of the posts, I'll risk sounding snarky because based on some of the bravado I hear in those posts the question just has to be asked.

So are you 100 percenters, all day everyday crowd claiming you carry in the shower? Just asking.
Since my .45 is on the edge of the tub I consider that "in posession" and would include that as carrying. Now I'll "risk sounding snarky" and ask do you really want to know or is that just your internet bravado talking?
 
Well, if I'm not at work, 100% of the time. My employer does not allow "weapons" even in locked automobiles. Other than that, if I'm wearing pants, I'm armed everywhere it is allowed by law.
 
If it's legal...I'm armed. If it's not legal like at the court house for example, I get on with my business as expeditiously as possible and get armed up again.
 
When I lived in Tucson I carried all the time. Now that I'm back in Flagstaff I rarely carry. When I travel down to Phoenix to see family, I carry all of the time. Basically I carry whenever I travel. Overall I'd guesstimate ~25% of the time. I am making an effort lately to continue my old habits of carrying whenever possible.
 
Do I carry in the shower? What a silly question!

Every serious operator takes tactical bubble baths. You can't stealthily lurk beneath the surface in the shower!


(When I'm in the shower, my gun rests within arms' reach, next to my iPhone, wallet, and keys.)
 
So are you 100 percenters, all day everyday crowd claiming you carry in the shower? Just asking.

Call me paranoid if you will, but 'yes'
I live in an apartment in a neighborhood that I can't wait to move out of, and don't have a canine companion as of yet, I will as soon as I have a back yard for him to run around in :) Also my bathroom is located immediately next-to the entrance to my apartment.
It's not that I'm expecting a break-in when I'm in the shower, it's more like, I don't want to be that -hitting the lottery kind of odds- person that ends up not only at the mercy of a crazy, but nekkid too! When I'm in the shower, a stainless pistol is easily within reach, tucked under my towel on top of the reading material so as to keep the steam from getting to it.
I will not be killed in my bleeping bathroom!



On a completely different note, I've considered sharing this on THR before, and always decided not to, but after thinking it over I suppose why not, maybe it'll help prevent it from happening to someone else.

Before I had my carry permit, in my early 20s, I was assaulted by complete strangers, for no other reason than their own amusement. They didn't rob me. I was walking alone, and there were four of them all very muscly types, and I'm pretty sure they were jacked up on cocaine or steroids at the least. I soon found out that these were very aggressive and malicious humans. One of them approached me smiling and began to ask me something but before he even finished the question I was being physically beaten. The thing is, after the first few blows, I had a moment where I got them off of and away from me and if I had been carrying I could have opened fire. Pain and adrenalin made the exact memory a bit of a blur, but I basically 'went bazerk' at them, fighting back, even though they had me outnumbered. They laughed it off, but it seemed to surprise them and they chose to continue on their merry twisted way leaving me to realize how much pain I was in. I ended up in the emergency room, and that worst day of my life left me in suspense for the next two weeks wondering if I was going to keep my severely ruptured testicles. Had I been armed that day I would not have hesitated to resort to lethal defense. They messed me up good, and I'm lucky to have made a full recovery. I'm a pretty normal looking friendly guy too, I'm positive they were just waiting for someone who was alone to come along. I wasn't even in a 'bad neighborhood', certainly had never seen any of them before and haven't seen any of them since. I'm a pretty sharp witted dude and very aware at all times, and yet still this happened. This will not be happening a second time for me. I had already been into recreational shooting for many years, but after that I obtained my permit as fast as reasonably possible. Four on one is not a 'fair fight,' and I had done nothing to provoke it.

I am now several years into carrying at all times with very few exceptions which are purely based on legality.
 
I can't carry at my day job, but there are gun lockers out front. I carry 100% of the time it is legal to do so.
 
I voted "between 75 and 100%" but I rarely carry on my person. In my state,Alabama, a permit is required to have a handgun in your vehicle and that is how most folks here carry(at least the folks I know). According to Alabama law,I am "carrying" when I have a handgun in my vehicle(which is rarely removed).
 
I work on a college campus so don't carry at work, although I do have my 9 in the truck. Other than work, I've always got my snubby with me.

My attitude is it's like my vehicle jack, hope I don't need it but wouldn't want to not have it if I did.

Jim
 
"It's not a matter of thinking that it WILL happen. We just recognize that it COULD.

I have a first aid kit in my bag every day, but I don't expect to need it. I wear my seatbelt every time I drive, but I don't expect to crash. I have 2 fire extinguishers, but I don't expect fire."--RBid

+1. I have used my first aid kit, and the fire extinguisher. Thankfully I haven't needed the seatbelt or my gun--MAY IT STAY THAT WAY!!

Thanks for the poll edit; I voted 75-100%, actually in the high 90 percentile.
 
Those who have had the unfortunate experience of having come close to death, weather it was at your place of business, your home, car, or just walking around minding your own business, realize how fast you can be killed.
Personally I have had 3 or 4 such experiences, and they were all when I was in the 25-40 age group, the height of my career, when I earned the most money and was out quite often, many times late at night. Once you have a gun put to your head , or in your mouth, "i refused to allow that and said fxxx you shoot me", then you realize that these are quite real situations never caused by you.
But I made the decision after coming close to death, that I would never allow anyone to have the last word as far as my living or dying goes. They may get me by suprise, but I will at least take the shot, maybe they will miss, or not even shoot, maybe their gun won't fire, but I refuse to allow some punk to say what day I die. Those of you who have been lucky enough to "thank god", never experienced this type of extreme behavior should learn from those of us who have. Your life means nothing to some people. They will shoot you dead and go out that night and spend your money and joke about it. It's not paranoia, it's true, it has happened to many people. many good folks have been gunned down sitting on the couch with their family watching tv, when some jerk, who heard from some other jerk, that you have money guns, jewlery etc in your house. You may not have any of these things, but when they are stoned and broke, they fantisize about all the stuff that is sitting there for the taking, usually someone else told someone about your car or job or money, and the story just grew as stories do.
We must learn from the past instead of allowing history to keep repeating itself. there should come a time wher idiots like those I have en****ered say, it's not worth it. People have guns now, and alarms and cameras, we may get the guy but we might get killed in the process.
The person who set me up was a federal informant, who was setting people up, "17" in a row, with no regaurd for the consequences. The Feds basically gave them a license to steal, they were informing on major cases. You really don't know anyone. This female lent me her brand new corvette, for a month while my car was getting repaired, and had gone out of her way to always do me favors. Little did I know she was with a major crime family. And one day she got mad at me for not taking her out. That's how simple it happens.
Don't allow it to happen to you, don't leave your gun sitting in the safe.
 
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