How safe do you feel anywhere now?

[williamlayton]

SAFE ??!!!!!
I never feel safe---I just feel like I am doin the best I can to have a fair chance.
Blessings

 

[GatorFarmer]

I carry a gun for work. I take it off when I get home. I'm not walking around my own house carrying a gun. If I needed to do that, I'd move my family some where else. I realize other folks are in different circumstances, but I worked hard to get a nice place in a nice boring town and part of the payoff is not needing to wear a shoulder holster in my jammies.

A question...dating back to the days when I was an Xfiles fan, I read that regulation required FBI agents to be either armed at all times or have immediate access to a firearm. Is that still the rule and if so what do they consider as immediate access? A Michigan State Policeman I knew who was subject to a similar stipulation claimed it was understood as meaning "in arm's reach".

 

[RJJ 1971]

I don't blame guys for carrying. No CCW for me, because I am worried about all the craziness out there now. My job is to make it home every night. My family and my home is what I value and will protect. Just try to keep my head on a swivel while at work or in public.

 

[BigBill]

I live more in the country now. These people are more redneck than southern rednecks. Let's say they all have guns and shoot no matter what hour it is. There freaking crazy. I love this little town.
I'm not worried I pack all the time 23 1/2 hours a day 365 days a year.

 

[sigp220.45]

A question...dating back to the days when I was an Xfiles fan, I read that regulation required FBI agents to be either armed at all times or have immediate access to a firearm. Is that still the rule and if so what do they consider as immediate access? A Michigan State Policeman I knew who was subject to a similar stipulation claimed it was understood as meaning "in arm's reach".

There is no hard and fast rule. Agents are required to be armed on duty and encouraged to be armed off duty, but that's it. As a training agent explained it to a younger me - if something bad happens and you can't deal with it because your gun is at home you are going to have to explain why.

I carry when ever I leave the house, like a majority of agents. Some guys never carry off duty. I've never seen anyone disciplined for not having a gun off duty, but I know of plenty of guys who got jammed up for off duty shenanigans that involved guns and alcohol.

 

[eliduc]

I have a CC permit that I seldom use. it seems to me that my risks of carrying out weigh the need. if I was carrying in my car and get pulled over in a school zone I could be looking at years in prison. Things like that. I read posts about those who carry in their own home. if my neighborhood was that dangerous I would move. I keep a loaded gun in my home and several that are not loaded. This gives me the willies since I don't have a safe. I need to figure something out. I could return home to find myself confronted with a home invader holding my own shotgun.

 

[cmort666]

I have a CC permit that I seldom use. it seems to me that my risks of carrying out weigh the need. if I was carrying in my car and get pulled over in a school zone I could be looking at years in prison.

Define "school zone". In MOST places, that doesn't include public thoroughfares. Here, it doesn't even include public sidewalks running past a school.