HD gun, on your person or kept handy?

[S&Wfan]

My Model 37 Airweight is ALWAYS in my front pocket, where legal!

I know a fella whose brother awoke on a dark night as an intruder pounced on him in his BED!

It was a horrible fight for control of the homeowner's S&W .357 Magnum revolver the owner kept in his bed for a long time.

During the bloody fight even the wood stocks got broken off as the gun and the two guys took a pounding! The homeowner prevailed and the predator met his maker . . . but the homeowner went through a lot of counseling. Killing another human being is a terrible thing to have to go through . . . but HE LIVED.

Yep, I carry all the time. Never expect to use it . . . but neither did he!

 

[Autolycus]

It varies on what I am doing at the house. Outside of the house I am armed but inside I am near a weapon for most the day.

 

[JustinJ]

Just wondering but if you step out to take out the trash or check the mail, do you holster up?

If i'm going to step outside for a second I don't always holster up. It generally depends on what i'm wearing and how long i'll be out. My four legged body guard is usually in tow as well though.

 

[Captjon]

The first thing I do in the morning is put my shorts on and take my Ruger P95 out of the gun safe next to my bed. The last thing I do before going to bed is put it back in the quick access gun safe.

We live on a large rural property and there have been a few times where trespassers have come onto the property (marijuana grows are popular around here in Northern Cal) and I was glad to have my firearm with me and not in the house. There was one occasion where I asked them to leave and they said "no", it wasn't until they heard my thumb break snap that they decided it was in fact time to go...

 

[Win73]

My Model 37 Airweight is ALWAYS in my front pocket, where legal!

Ditto my 637 Airweight. In fact it is in my pocket as I am typing this.

If i'm going to step outside for a second I don't always holster up.

Since it is always in my pocket, I always have it when I go outside. In fact at night, especially when I go out the back door, I often have it in my hand as I open the door.

 

[flaman]

on my person... Always!

 

[Guy B. Meredith]

12 GA is hard to carry around all day so I just keep it loaded and available per our emergency plan.

 

[Sergei Mosin]

To twist an old phrase, a gun on the hip is worth two in the safe.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

If i'm going to step outside for a second I don't always holster up. It generally depends on what i'm wearing and how long i'll be out. My four legged body guard is usually in tow as well though

Hope no one decides to jump you in that second.

 

[allaroundhunter]

Hope no one decides to jump you in that second.

I don't see a big problem with his going out for a second being unarmed. His dog can give him a very good indication if something isn't right, and many dogs are VERY protective of their owners.

When I go outside to play a game or something I don't do so armed. If you feel like there is never a time in your life that you can go outside unarmed, and do so safely, then you are either paranoid or need to move to a better part of town (or both)

 

[johnsack2001]

The sad truth of the matter is sometimes it is more cost effective to arm up rather than move out.

 

[Win73]

If you feel like there is never a time in your life that you can go outside unarmed, and do so safely, then you are either paranoid or need to move to a better part of town (or both)

If I really thought that there was a reason to go outside armed at that particular moment, I would not go outside. I would fort up inside and call 911. If there was an existing threat outside, I would stay inside. I look at going outside armed as just insurance. I don't expect to die any time soon but I still carry life insurance just in case. I have no life threatening health conditions but still carry the insurance. I don't expect my house to burn down but still carry fire insurance. I know of no condition that should cause it to catch on fire but I still carry the insurance. I don't expect to have an automobile accident but still carry accident insurance.

I know that the odds of me ever having to use my gun for self defense are very small. I do not lead the kind of life that would increase those odds. I do not live in a bad part of town. So I carry just for insurance. Out of the millions of people who play the lottery, a few hit it big. Out of the millions of people in this country, a few get struck by lightning. I figure my odds of needing to use my gun are probably about the same as those.

So I carry for insurance. Who knows when I might simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time. As the saying goes, I am not worried about the bullet with my name on it, but the one addressed to whom it may concern.

If in that rare case that I might need it I have it. If I don't need it, what have I lost by carrying it?

 

[allaroundhunter]

I look at going outside armed as just insurance.

As do I, but what I am saying is that if there is a time when I really cannot be armed for a few minutes outside, I am not going to worry too much about or think that it will be the end of me...

If you were outside rolling around and playing with your kid, would you still keep a gun on you? I wouldn't, but it wouldn't be a reason for me to not go outside and play.

 

[orionengnr]

Obviously, there are two ways to look at this. I can only look at it from my position...and I understand that yours may vary.

If you are a sheep, you can bleat "Why do you need to be armed"?

The rest of us say "Why should I go unarmed?"

It does no harm to anyone else for me to be armed, and that is what counts.

One day it may be beneficial to myself or someone else. If so, great. If not, no harm done.

What could be simpler?

 

[JustinJ]

Hope no one decides to jump you in that second.

I just somehow find it very unlikely that a person will be hiding in my bushes to ambush me as i walk outside.

I would venture more people are killed or injured by falls every year than ambushed in their front yards so do you wear a helmet every time you walk?

 

[Win73]

I just somehow find it very unlikely that a person will be hiding in my bushes to ambush me as i walk outside.

I don't know you but it probably is true that it is "very unlikely". But can you say for certain that it absolutely will not ever happen?

I would venture more people are killed or injured by falls every year than ambushed in their front yards so do you wear a helmet every time you walk?

No, but I am armed!

 

[JustinJ]

I don't know you but it probably is true that it is "very unlikely". But can you say for certain that it absolutely will not ever happen?

So do you take steps to defend against all things for which you can't say "absolutely will never happen"?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525992,00.html

 

[Skribs]

I don't carry when I'm at home, but I do have a "belt" (18-inch double strip of webbing) that I can put my paddle holster on screwed into the bottom of my desk. I'm a gamer, so I spend probably 60% of my waking hours at home on the computer, so that makes the most sense.

Eventually I will have a spot to keep one handy, but hidden in every room of my condo, be it a handgun or a long gun (more likely a handgun, though, since those are easier to keep hidden).

When I go to bed, though, it goes into the safe. When I'm asleep, I don't want there to be any that an invader can get to before they get to my room.

 

[316SS]

So do you take steps to defend against all things for which you can't say "absolutely will never happen"?

Let's talk numbers. I live in a city in Northern California with a rate of reported violent crime of 729/100K. That is a 10 year average ending in 2010. Assuming a 100% report rate, that means my statistical chance of being the target of violent crime is 1 in 137. I have read, and I believe, that the greatest factor in being the target of violent crime is lifestyle, i.e. whom you associate with and where and how you spend your time. I am a family man and I make every attempt to avoid risky behavior, but I refuse to have my last thought on earth be that I am leaving my family without a husband and father because I couldn't be troubled to put on a holster.

 

[Win73]

So do you take steps to defend against all things for which you can't say "absolutely will never happen"?

No, probably not all things, but I do defend against them if it is reasonable to do so. If it is easy, cheap, and simple to do so, why not? Even though the probability that someone will try to attack me as I step outside is small, how much trouble is it to drop my LCP or my S & W .38 into my right front pocket? Or why not just always have it on me as I do right now. Even though I probably won't need it, what harm does it do for me to have it? I would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

 

[2ndAmFan]

Well, I put a handgun on in the am when I get up and put it in the nightstand next to my bed when I go to sleep at night. If that makes some people think I'm paranoid, fine. I've been doing it so long that it's second nature.