Happiness Is A Warm Gun, what are you trying to do, make sense? (Post 20.)
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Happiness Is A Warm Gun, what are you trying to do, make sense? (Post 20.)
Sorry I will try to keep the logic to a minimum in the future.
Why would a suicidal nut bother attacking a cop hoping to get shot? Why not just find a bridge and jump off? Crazy people confuse me sometimes.
If it's important for you to be a poster child for the RKBA, by carrying openly, (a) use a holster with some sort of retention device and (b) get some training in weapon retention.
.And carry a combat folder or fixed blade on your none gun side
stevelyn said:And carry a combat folder or fixed blade on your none gun side.
B.D. Turner said:Wouldn't a less than lethal weapon make more sense? (OC spray)
Im not saying not take a knife but not all violent situations call for deadly force.
B.D. Turner said:What does this have to do with open carry? Shooting an unarmed person is likely to harm your freedom for at least a couple of years. Words cannot cause you physical harm. What if there were no witnesses to hear his threats. Would it look more like murder? You bet.
It’s abundantly clear that his intent was to kill himself, and anybody else who got in the way of that goal, by taking the officer’s firearm,” Ryan said.
Lashlarue said:I'm not a big fan of open carry by civilians is upsetting for the general population.Twenty yours ago in was commonplace around Las Vegas [once or twice a week]and few ventured into the desert unarmed.Thirty years ago you seldom saw a P/U without the obligatory 30-30 in a rack in the back window.Been years since I've seen one now!
I don't carry openly for my safety.
I carry openly because this right is not a shameful secret.
Or he's full of crap and just running his mouth. Has anything like that happened in any of the many states that have concealed or open carry? Even if it has, which I seriously doubt, it's going to be something rare enough that it wouldn't influence my decisions.bogie said:Why I lean away from it: A few years back, Missouri had a ballot referendum on CCW. It was pretty hotly debated. One fellow I ran into said that if he was in a restaurant, and he noticed that someone had a concealed weapon, he'd take his steak knife and kill them before they could hurt someone. No amount of attempted reasoning could persuade him that someone with no ill intent could be carrying a weapon.
If you're out to dinner, and this clown (or one of his clown-brothers) is in the restaurant with you, you could have a problem. What do you do when some misguided, misinformed, mis-brained fellow decides that he's gonna play hero?
JesseL said:I don't worry about running into a guy like that because, around here, odds are that he's already dead or in prison.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.