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are you planning on being robbed at your wedding?
congrats, by the way!
congrats, by the way!
Vector said:However I'd like to hear some practical and realistic reasons for the NEED to carry at a wedding.
Number one cause of death in America?.................SHOTGUN WEDDINGS!......That is not what that means Dwight.
However I'd like to hear some practical and realistic reasons for the NEED to carry at a wedding.
I'd like to hear some practical and realistic reasons for the NEED to carry at a wedding.
That's easy! A BBQ gun!
Vector said:Well I was going to respond to one of the posts, but I see a few more with the same theme. So let me make a general reply.
I see the primary difference between a wedding and a trip to Wal Mart as stark. One is a total public venue loaded with total strangers. A wedding is typically held at a private venue with invited guests, most of whom will be family and friends. Can violence occur, sure. However the likelihood is very slim that you would need to use deadly force there, in comparison to public places loaded with total strangers.
For those of you who see the potential need to carry at weddings, what the heck do you do when you go to places like the beach? One place is private with family and friends, the other is public with total strangers. Assuming your risk assessment is properly tuned, you must feel the need to carry, but how do you do it responsibly at the beach? You cannot carry on you when you go into the water, and you can't leave it with your stuff either.
How do you rationalize the different scenarios?
One is a total public venue loaded with total strangers. A wedding is typically held at a private venue with invited guests, most of whom will be family and friends.
I am not even going to bother looking at your links since you did not bother to take the time to answer my question.This isn't a game of odds, Vector. It's a game of what's at stake.
I guess if you are married in a church that is considered a public place that has access. That said, what are the chances that weddings are typical places that lethal force will need to be used. As to you comment about the lack of a beach, what then of a trip to the water park or swimming pool? I use those examples only because they are presumably more dangerous, yet carrying is not practical. For that matter what do you do at sporting events where firearms are prohibited, yet there are tens of thousands of drunk and unruly strangers all packed together? You are obviously in a more dangerous situation, yet you are not armed.I don't think anyone here is planning on a lethal force altercation with friends or family. Unless you plan on locking the doors to the chapel during the ceremony, anyone at all can come in with whatever their intentions may be. That is how I rationalize the different scenarios.
Oh, and in Kansas I don't have to worry about the beach very often.
That said, what are the chances that weddings are typical places that lethal force will need to be used.
You are obviously in a more dangerous situation, yet you are not armed.
Vector said:I am not even going to bother looking at your links since you did not bother to take the time to answer my question.
Vector said:but how do you do it responsibly at the beach?
Vector said:How do you rationalize the different scenarios?