I tailor where I travel to the states I'm licensed to carry in. I told my boss yesterday I would not attend overnight training in NY but would prefer to stay in-state. I haven't told him I carry but after that statement I assume he has put 2 and 2 together.

There is evil and real monsters in this world.
Anyone that tells you different has just not encountered them yet.

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She menaced me with a knife until I ate all of what she cooked for me. Good times... Good times...

Gator, did that go away after the first trimester?

While my wife was crazy (crazier?) when she was pregnant, the one with the large knife was simply a woman that I'd met at a bar. I made the mistake of coming back for a second date. She also made me watch that truly terrible Mel Gibson film "What Women Want" after dinner. True story. I don't think the Paxil was working.

While I make light this sort of thing at times (the old laugh or cry choice), a male friend of mine was actually seriously injured on four seperate occaisions (different women) in domestic abuse situations. His front teeth were knocked loose (by a woman who also kicked the door of his truck in), he had an ear drum punctured after getting punched in the side of his head (by a 110 pound thin blonde who one wouldn't think could knock a man out), a broken nose (from a different thin blonde), and in the most dangerous case was soaked with gasoline and an attempt made to set him on fire.

While most associated with women being victimized, some men are victims of stalking, domestic abuse, assaults, and even rape by spurned lovers, jealous exes, random dates, etc.

While strangers are what most folks worry about, I always figure that one has to also worry about those that they know. (Two thirds of rape victims and almost half of the nation's murder victims knew their attacker - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/cv94.txt for some older numbers that still seem to be roughly accurate.) This is little mentioned in most "what if" analysis on the part of those interested in self defense, perhaps because of a reluctance to think about it.

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Originally posted by BarbC:
I tailor where I travel to the states I'm licensed to carry in. I told my boss yesterday I would not attend overnight training in NY but would prefer to stay in-state. I haven't told him I carry but after that statement I assume he has put 2 and 2 together.

Barb, I'm sorta the same way. We live in Indiana and when we travel west I stop in Illinois just to whiz and waste their water at a rest stop. I wait until we get into Missouri to reload my carry weapon de jure and spend some money on food.

While I make light this sort of thing at times (the old laugh or cry choice), a male friend of mine was actually seriously injured on four seperate occaisions (different women) in domestic abuse situations. His front teeth were knocked loose (by a woman who also kicked the door of his truck in), he had an ear drum punctured after getting punched in the side of his head (by a 110 pound thin blonde who one wouldn't think could knock a man out), a broken nose (from a different thin blonde), and in the most dangerous case was soaked with gasoline and an attempt made to set him on fire.
[/QUOTE]Sounds like your buddy could have better luck picking people out of the phone book!!

News items only:

Stabbings in movie theater

Robbing of register and patrons in fast food places . .Wendy's, Burger King, etc in mid afternoon

Robberies of customers while pumping gas

Carjackers targeting trucks like mine

All reinforced by the desperate situation developing among undocumented workers who cannot keep their jobs as an unintended (sort of) consequence of reinvigorated immigration enforcement

Two personal events:

1. A good college buddy of mine moved to DC after we graduated (about 4 years ago). He and 2 others (1 male, 1 female) were outside of their townhome in Georgetown having a smoke later in the evening (about 11pm i think), 2 males approached armed and demanded the females purse. One of the muggers grabbed the purse and subsequently pushed the female to the ground. My friend leaned down to help her, and one of the mugger's fired twice into his abdomen. He survived the shooting (one of the spent bullets ended up in his bladder, to which he had to let come out the natural way according to the docs, not a happy experience)
2. My younger brother was getting into his brand new car outside of his house in the Vanderbilt area of Nashville (along with his frat buddy), 5 males (in their teens or early 20s) approached and put a gun to my brother's head, took his wallet, phone and keys, robbed his friend as well. Stole his car, it was later found 6 days later in GA on the side of the highway.

The incidents and one particularly bad incident that sticks out in my mind in the news, was the doctor (I believe in MA or CT) who's wife and two daughters were raped, murdered, and the doctor was severly beaten by 2 escaped inmates.

After my brother could have potentially left this earth that night, i made a promise that i would always do something to defend myself and my family. will be investing in a Mossberg Persuader (12GA) this weekend to add to the arsenal.

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I have carried off and on. There is always a weapon in my car. A resent rash of useless killing in state parks and other place has pushed me to carry all the time. I am pushing to have my wife and daughter carry as well. I have "J" frames for them and as soon as they get their CCW permits the plan will go into place.

I prefer a Sig 229 9mm but it is more logicial for me to carry a "J" frame as well. I wish Smith would make a 340 M&P in 9mm. I would then be carrying only one caliber of ammo.

My Father.
Bought me a Mdl 37, in 1956, taught me to shoot and told me to never go with out it.
Still, today, I carry it.
My wife, calls it my American Express card.
"Don't leave home, without it".
I never do.
Today, with the world the way it is, you'd better be prepared!

I carry because I can.

This isn't why I started but, it happened the day before I got my card in the mail!!!! This happened in my apartment complex 2 buildings down. I can only thank god that it wasn't me or my girls (5 & 12 yrs.) But it could have been. Freaked me out!! I still say a prayer for this girl.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/feb/22/police_testify_about_womans_injuries/

Monty

I've got a couple of fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, and deadbolts on the doors, too. I don't expect to have a fire in the house or anyone try to break in, but the basic reality is that shit happens and firemen, cops and insurance are only useful after the incident is over. "Be Prepared" (sign's up~!)

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There is evil and real monsters in this world.
Anyone that tells you different has just not encountered them yet.

LaP is spot on. There are two legged animals running loose on our streets that think nothing of you and your family. I have included a link to a hideous murder of two young people that happened in Knoxville, TN. What the vermin did to both the guy and gal is just too horrid to include in an email. http://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/channon-c...r-1607-knoxville-tn/

Time to take out the trash!

Didn't want to NOT have a permit if the political climate changed. The process helped me see the wisdom in exercising the right or losing it. I'm with some others here who find something fundamentally wrong with the fact that we so easily accept the false premise that we need a permit to carry.
I did get a permit and follow the laws of my state. However, I think we need to aggressively pursue the bad guys so we, the good guys, aren't overly regulated in response to the crimes of others.
Until everyone successfully graduates from Sunday school and lives accordingly we need to recognize that evil is always at work in our world and we have a duty to protect ourselves and others.
It bothers me to no end that if I were to walk down the street with an exposed hangun or long rifle that I am automatically considered a murderous threat and guilty of a crime. Wonder what Meriwether Lewis or William Clark might have thought about that?
We need to uncover the spirit of our forefathers in the context of our modern world for the betterment of all!

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Originally posted by 338WIN:
Didn't want to NOT have a permit if the political climate changed. The process helped me see the wisdom in exercising the right or losing it. I'm with some others here who find something fundamentally wrong with the fact that we so easily accept the false premise that we need a permit to carry.
I did get a permit and follow the laws of my state. However, I think we need to aggressively pursue the bad guys so we, the good guys, aren't overly regulated in response to the crimes of others.
Until everyone successfully graduates from Sunday school and lives accordingly we need to recognize that evil is always at work in our world and we have a duty to protect ourselves and others.
It bothers me to no end that if I were to walk down the street with an exposed hangun or long rifle that I am automatically considered a murderous threat and guilty of a crime. Wonder what Meriwether Lewis or William Clark might have thought about that?
We need to uncover the spirit of our forefathers in the context of our modern world for the betterment of all!

Unfortunately, Win, most of us would probably freak out if we saw someone carrying a long arm down the street. That's probably why we have concealed carry and not open carry in most states. I truthfully would be concerned.