Did something happen to make you CCW?

[76shuvlinoff]

I always had an interest in firearms, all firearms. When the right to ccw was opened up to us here in Michigan I was actually an anti, not anti gun just anti ccw. I figured if you were going to be bad ass enough to carry a gun then carry it out there for all of us to know you have it ...and I often repeated that loudly to my pro ccw friends.

After some long and even heated discussions with friends, some research, and eventually finding web sites like this one I began to see the all sides of the debate and also realized my rights were/are in danger of being removed.

I took the ccw training and then in about a year I took a true defensive handgun course. My Michigan 5 year permit expired this year and I never even considered not renewing it. Consider me converted.

 

[The Bushmaster]

Oregon...Where men are men and the sheep are worried.

None on the list fit. I've been carrying long before I had a permit for the defense of me and my family. Now that I'm in a state that trusts me to carry I have a permit. In all actuality the Second Amendment is my CCW permit...

 

[captainamerica]

Beside gaining the legal right (in Missouri) it's largely b/c people have gotten so mean and lawless in their ways.

 

[MountainBear]

Yes to all of the first three.

Oregon...Where men are men and the sheep are worried.

That's laughable coming from someone in Missouri...

 

[The Bushmaster]

Born and raise in Portland, Tigard, Ocean Lake (20 Miracle Miles) and Coos Bay. Left because too many californians (and liberals) had wrecked the [once] Great Northwest...

 

[jad0110]

Actually, none of the above, for me

I'd been wanting to carry for years; but my wife, though pro-2nd amendment, personally HATES guns and would not tolerate me carrying. Her response was always something to the effect of either "we live in a nice area, it'll never happen to us" or "just run away if it does". I am young and in good health, so running is at least one option. But I couldn't overcome her stance based upon other scenarios, like being caught in a situtation with NO way out.

'Course, things changed when she got pregnant. She is very small (slightly under 5' and 110 lbs when she got pregnant), and my son proved to be a big boy (9 lbs 8 oz at birth via C-Section, as his head was too big to be born the natural way).

It got so bad for her than she had to walk with a cane. I asked her if she thought she could run from an attacker in her condition. I was surprised that she didn't retort "I'll just knock the crap out of him with this cane!". I also asked her that after our son was born, if either of us could run well with a big, blubbery, helpless baby in our arms.

At about the same time, in one of the nicest communties in our region, a teenage punk tried to rob a homeowner (armed with a knife, IIRC) while the homeowner was working in his garage. I say tried, because said homeowner shot said punk, who survived.

She agreed to me getting my permit, reluctantly. She didn't like it, but she knew it was the right thing to do. Today, she still hates guns, and she refuses to even touch a gun. But she is comforted (most of the time) by the fact that I carry everywhere it is legal.

 

[Bohemus]

I turned 21 and "permited to carry B class gun" appeared on my licence.
So i said why not? It would be stupid to need gun nad have it in safe.. and also I want to enjoy last remaining freedom before EUSSR will overtake us completely and ban everything:-/