Just curious if anyone here who partcipated in the spare magazine thread has rethought it after LA riots.

[GnarlsR2]

If MagGuts releases a +2 Kit for the BG2 12-round mag, that’s 15 rounds. I’m good with 15 rounds of 380. If the situation requires it, I can stick a 21-round mag into my P365, and have 22 rounds of 9mm. If things really go south, I have 10 30-round mags for my Panther.

Surprisingly, in 19 years living here we’ve had one of two illegal aliens that high-jacked a guy’s pickup at gunpoint, taken down by a dozen cops and Border Patrol agents in OUR backyard in the broad daylight.

Two times we have had police helicopters overhead with spotlights searching all over our street at 2am in the morning, and 20 or 30 law enforcement officers going door to door wanting to look in our backyards. Whoever they were looking for must have been really bad-arse criminals. Those two times made me grab a home defense pistol.

So, what happens is LA doesn’t worry me, it only makes me very thankful I am no longer living there.

 

[docbrazos]

I have to wonder if anyone here who was not actively carying a spare magazine or extra reload or two for a revolver has given any serious thought into "maybe" changing their mind. The recent riots in LA (and smaller ones elsewhere) have been in the public eye and those of us here who take SD seriously might want to look at this topic again. I am more curious about human nature here than anything else. It's OK to change our minds - I have done so on more than one occasion. Heck, I never thought I'd be carrying a micro 9 pistol over my former EDC - a M60-7.

Unfortunately, sometimes when we least expect it, trouble happens upon us - even when we thought we were going into a pefcetly safe place.

Goes back to Why carry, I'm just going down the street to a local store? I've carried a handgun legally for over 25 years. Hadn't need it. But, the one time you don't have it is the one time you just might need it. 15 Rounds should be enough to fight yourself out of a bad situation. Most places I go worst case scenario, is I have to fight my way back to my vehicle. There is more Ammo (Magazine) there and a long gun too! Problem solved. So no, I still don't carry an extra mag regularly on me all the time. But where I live and the places I go makes a difference too!

 

[Shibadog]

No, because if I lived in L.A. I wouldn't be anywhere near where the protests are going on. That is why I am an old man who has never needed to draw a weapon in self defense. If I find trouble it won't be because I went looking for it.

My Dad told me as a young boy “son, don’t ever go looking for trouble, if you do you WILL find it”. Sound advice for anyone. I too do my best to avoid known problem areas. I carry a firearm for the exact same reason I have a spare tire for my truck. I have no intention to use either, but if you do need one, you need it badly. And no, I’ve not changed anything for EDC.

 

[duke2002]

In a small pocket gun 3. In a full-size depending on what it is 2 or 3. Everyone has a differant mind set.

 

[Telecaster]

No riot here, keep moving along.

 

[Jon651]

I have to wonder if anyone here who was not actively carying a spare magazine or extra reload or two for a revolver has given any serious thought into "maybe" changing their mind. The recent riots in LA (and smaller ones elsewhere) have been in the public eye and those of us here who take SD seriously might want to look at this topic again. I am more curious about human nature here than anything else. It's OK to change our minds - I have done so on more than one occasion. Heck, I never thought I'd be carrying a micro 9 pistol over my former EDC - a M60-7.

Unfortunately, sometimes when we least expect it, trouble happens upon us - even when we thought we were going into a pefcetly safe place.

For me, carrying a spare mag is certainly NOT due to what is happening in LA. I'm a believer that one of the easiest ways to clear a problem is to drop my current mag, clear the issue, and reload with my spare mag. It's how I practiced, so I'll not waste my time doing otherwise.

As for the "riots", I suggest occasionally changing channels to get a more broad view of what is actually happening. At least one national news service I watched never covered a minute of the marches and speeches, but had four different angles of the same three cars on fire wanting to make it look like things were more violent and widespread that they actually are. The affected area is relatively small; the amount of violence is nowhere near the scale of other protests; No buildings have been burned down; there is no widespread looting; and the number of political protesters (a Constitutionally protected activity) dwarfs the number of violent rioters (NOT a Constitutionally protected activity...) by an order of magnitude. Yes, a lot of people are marching but I fear too many on the outside looking in have lost the ability to differentiate between "protester" and "rioter", mostly because of politics.

 

[Smoke]

No, because if I lived in L.A. I wouldn't be anywhere near where the protests are going on. That is why I am an old man who has never needed to draw a weapon in self defense. If I find trouble it won't be because I went looking for it.

During all the George Floyd nonsense "The mostly peaceful" protesters were doing no warning intersection takeovers.

Sometimes the protests come to where you're at, no more how hard you try to avoid them

 

[biku324]

I never killed strikers or protesters or rioters while in policing, so I suspect I'll avoid such now.

 

[Smoke]

How many magazines did the roof koreans have

 

[326MOD10]

Well said Jon651.

We have had civil unrest for our entire existence, some violent/some not, and in fact this was the method of the founding of our Country.

There are far bigger issues going in in LA that should concern us all more than how many magazines do I need. Things that I have never seen in my lifetime and never thought I would..

 

[Retired LEO .357]

12-gauge bean bags, knock the wind out of them.

 

[pharmer]

I'm adequately armed, avoid trouble/places, situationally aware. Better off than 95% of folks who have "zero defensive plans." Joe

 

[YouveHadYour6]

I'd be hard-pressed to call what is happening in L.A. a riot or riots, having been through multiple riots and having lived in L.A.

No carry changes from me. An eyebrow raised at some people's reaction to the world, on here and IRL, but no carry habits changed.

 

[DEF3]

Yep, stick to the norm. If you think your going to be blasting through 30 rounds in a fight your on the wrong turf. Avoid it, it’s cheaper.

 

[fatcat3]

If/when I carry an auto I carry a spare because I see the mag as the weak link in that chain. I do carry a reload for the 638, but not the NAA. What's the point? I can load and fire my muzzle loader 2-3 times in the time it takes me to reload the NAA.

What makes a protester a "bad guy". You know it is covered under the Constitution and all of that jazz.

Watts was a riot. The destruction after Rodney King was a riot. This sir is no riot.

But I carry a spare magazine as stated above due to malfunctions and the like so your question doesn't apply.

The constitution does not cover looting, the destruction of public/private property or any of the jazz.
Concert blocks thrown off overpasses, Molotov cocktails thrown a police officers, Motorcycles crashed into police lines.... Guess we have a different definition of riot.

We know why they don't happen in small rural towns.

The town next door Population 2100 (about 3X my town) in the last year has had 2 standoffs with the county sheriffs, 1 yo-yo threatening people with a machete (twice and still not caught), the coin machine at the laundry ripped off the wall, and one very ticked off man ram his truck into the local phone co. office.
I grew up in the same town that I live now. Our door didn't even have a door latch; it was just held closed by friction. People went away from home for hours and left the door open. Not unlocked but open. left the keys in the car day and night. When we built the "new house" it had a real doorknob, mom & dad left the key in the knob so long it corroded in the lock. Still worked just couldn't get the key out. My small town sure aint like that anymore.

 

[326MOD10]

While I agree there has been several criminals at the protest who have committed criminal acts the situation there is far from a riot.

Most of the folks there are peaceful protesters and if you watch a variety of coverage you will see this. I have heard many of the protesters even say to others there to keep things peaceful.

So yes we have a vast difference of opinion of what constitutes a riot. For instance if you watched the press conference from the LA County and City officials today, and ironically FOX didn't bother to cover it, you would have received a pretty good accounting of what is taking place.

A few bad actors does not a riot make.

 

[scattershot]

What makes a protester a "bad guy". You know it is covered under the Constitution and all of that jazz.

I dunno, the fact that they are destroying property, attacking police officers, and burning cars?

Watts was a riot. The destruction after Rodney King was a riot. This sir is no riot.

What would you call it, then? Certainly not a peaceful protest.

But I carry a spare magazine as stated above due to malfunctions and the like so your question doesn't apply.

 

[326MOD10]

Scattershot look above your post and I believe I have answered your questions.

I am not sure how you quoted me as saying something I didn't but pretty impressive sir.

 

[65-2x2]

5 burned vehicles in 5 days is pretty much a normal work week at Tesla.

I wonder how many of those cars burned because of the tear gas cannisters. On day one, I saw one, unburned car, with one of the gas grenades right beside a tire.

 

[scattershot]

Quoted verbatim from one of your previous posts.