Had my CCW permit for 5 years. School bus driver, so I can't carry most of the time. Gone from carrying Glocks to using and carrying a S&W Bodyguard. Just so nice and for some reason I get great groupings out to 30 yards with mine, so I feel very good carrying my 380. Still love my Glocks and 1911 but find them too big for carry. Pocket pistol with night sights is my preferred way.
How many people carry?
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I know a few that carry occasionally too. I don't get it.
I wish I could "feel" whether or not I needed to carry a gun because I wouldn't go there.
I think some of these folks suffer from a lack of confidence in their ability to protect themselves with a firearm. Or overconfidence in thinking they will never need to protect themselves.
Vince Lombardi said "Winning isn't a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing."
His quote illustrates the need for mental preparation and a total commitment to doing things the right way.
IMO, "guessing" whether today's the day you need to carry a gun is unrealistic. It shows a lack of understanding as to why we bother to buy a gun, get a permit, train and practice, because we simply refuse to be victims. We cannot pick and choose the time or circumstance when the need may arise to protect ourselves and more importantly our loved one's.
Concealed carry is truly an art which must be taken seriously with complete and total commitment to doing it right.
But again, just my opinion. Others are free to do as they wish.
bp231986
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it be stupid not to, i even carry at home when just watching a movie or taking a nap on the sofa. In the event that something negative would happen it would when you were least expecting it.
Concealed carry is like having an ace up your sleeve ready to be played at the right moment. Carry at home is like having two aces up your sleeve.
vatchunter
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I wander if the same people who don't think anything bad is going to happen today are the same people you have to stop and help because they have a flat tire and no tools to change it.... It's not paranoid to be prepared.
Knightrider03m
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BCDWYO
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Ditto for me...also in AZ and also carry virtually 100% of the time where legal. I feel vulnerable and "naked" when I don't carry.
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My BIL thinks I'm a paranoid nut case because of my choice to carry when clothed. He point blank asked me the other day "why do you feel the need to carry even in your own home?"
My response was simple. "Because I don't get to choose when things go bad."
I also advised him that if my choices made him uncomfortable in any way, the door was right behind him.
My response was simple. "Because I don't get to choose when things go bad."
I also advised him that if my choices made him uncomfortable in any way, the door was right behind him.
bubbiesdad
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I carry except when the law or employer doesn't allow.
I carry 100% of the time, so does my wife, in-laws, most of my friends and as soon as my two daughters are old enough they will be carrying also. One is a year away and Class, permit and a 442 will be her 21st birthday present.
doc540
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If I'm dressed, I'm packing.
primary and BUG
primary and BUG
Ogandydancer
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If I am out and about I either have a Sig P6 or a Sig P229R 40 S&W or an FNP40.
williamlayton
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Some of you boys are going to think this is a smart alec answer but it is the truth and the way I have done it for over 40 years.
I started carrying everyday before thare was a CCW---I carried illegally.
I have carried in just about every state in the US and every National park.
I determined, when young, that BG's carry and I was also. I have gone on the theory that "don't ask-don't tell." I have carried in hospitals--movies--ball games--parks--well anyplace that I am going to go that will require me walking back to a car.
It has worked for me and when stopped for a ticket was never asked and never said.
You do it your way.
Blessings
I started carrying everyday before thare was a CCW---I carried illegally.
I have carried in just about every state in the US and every National park.
I determined, when young, that BG's carry and I was also. I have gone on the theory that "don't ask-don't tell." I have carried in hospitals--movies--ball games--parks--well anyplace that I am going to go that will require me walking back to a car.
It has worked for me and when stopped for a ticket was never asked and never said.
You do it your way.
Blessings
photoman
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I know a whole lotta people that have done the exact same thing. They carry everywhere except through metal detectors.
All the time. I don't go to airports, and I don't go to places where I think I might need a gun, except for walking down the street (until recently, there was a dog in the neighborhood who scared our next-door neighbors, and we used to have coyotes living on our property). I don't stash guns around the house, partly because it is illegal in MA, and partly because I agree with the law (for myself, only; I don't presume to tell other folks how to handle their own situations, seeing as they know more about their situations than I do, and may even be smarter than I, to boot). The only time I don't have a gun in my pocket is when I have one on my belt.
I also have fire insurance on the house, and I consider the need for that even less than the need for a gun - less likely to happen, and less severe consequences for being uninsured.
I also have fire insurance on the house, and I consider the need for that even less than the need for a gun - less likely to happen, and less severe consequences for being uninsured.
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