This August I will have been married to my wife for 25 years. We dated for a year and a half, really we dated for 6 months and we were engaged for a year, before we were married. I was carrying a gun on our first date and she knew it.
Is it normal for you to be armed? or is it abnormal for you to he armed. Is it enough out of the ordinary for your wife or significant other to ask because they don't know whether or not your armed in public?
Not only is it normal for
both my wife and I to be armed in public, we obviously have a few years on you and your wife. For that matter, we've been married for going on 52 years, and we've each been carrying in public since the mid-90s (about 25 years).
The flip side is, at my wife's and my respective ages, visits to doctors' offices, medical clinics and hospitals are more frequent for us than they were 25 years ago. The fact is, I have an appointment with my Dermatologist tomorrow morning (just an annual checkup) and I know full well he's going to want me to pull my shirt off so that he can check me over for any new "suspicious looking" spots on my shoulders and back. So, when we get to the clinic tomorrow morning, my wife is probably going to remind me to remove my gun before we go inside. However, she'll go inside with me, and she'll still be carrying.
It was the same thing in reverse last week - my wife had an appointment with her Cardiologist, and we knew she would run an EKG on my wife. So, I reminded my wife to take her gun off before we went into the hospital - where the Cardiologist's office is located. I was still wearing
my gun though.
At any rate, I hope the above information doesn't cause this thread to drift off in some argument about whether or not to leave a firearm in a motor vehicle, or where or where
not "No Weapons" signs carry the force of law, or some other weird argument that won't make a darned bit of difference as to whether or not my wife and I are "normally armed" in public. We
are, and we've been armed in public for so long it has become "
normal" for us. So, we "normally" remind one another to remove our guns before we go into a place where carrying a firearm is either "not allowed" or illegal.