What are your most important scenarios for carrying a firearm

[bushmaster1313]

What are your most important scenarios for carrying a firearm.

For me:

1) Attending activities at my House of Worship.

2) Walking my dog late at night.

^^^These are the only circumstances where I feel especially vulnerable without a firearm

 

[Echo40]

Same as anyone else, I suppose...

• Repelling an attack by the Crackerjack Boys.
• Preventing an armed robbery.
• Foiling a Terrorist Plot.
• Rescuing damsels in distress.

But seriously, I carry a firearm for the sake of personal protection, exercising my rights, doing my due diligence. There are no specific scenarios involved.

 

[Mule Packer]

I suppose the Walter Mitty in me can envision myself saving the masses of shoppers in the downtown mall from a gang of jihadist terrorists...or taking out the lone gunman perched on the big grain silo on the edge of town sniping at all the locals...or the crazy who all of the sudden goes nuts with an AR in the middle of the double feature at our local cinema, but realistically, those scenarios probably won't happen...at least probably not in my little community.

On the other hand, if Miss Judy needs me to go into the city to pick up a gallon of milk at 10:00 p.m., and I get confronted by some punk in the almost empty grocery store parking lot demanding my wallet...well...then I can see a realistic reason for me carrying.

Bottom line though...carrying is a habit I got into many, many years ago. It's a good habit and I don't plan on breaking it anytime soon.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Why does one need to envision a scenario? Carry or don't.

 

[Critch]

I just took out the trash and I took my G43.

 

[Sevens]

I’ve said this before in some of these discussions regarding carry.

For me, the biggest reasons I wish to be armed as much or more than anything are these two:

1) the journey, in my vehicle. I’m good unless/until something goes awry with my vehicle. If I’m stranded, I want to be armed. If I need to journey away from my vehicle, I want to be armed.

More so is reason 2

2) I want to be armed when I enter my home

I had an incident years ago where I had to enter my home unarmed and that was a BAD situation and an awful scenario to be unarmed.

 

[alwslate]

Whenever I leave the house. If it's just putting out the trash or walking across the street to the mailbox I choose to have the means to defend myself.

 

[TX-Dennis]

It's just a way of life. No scenarios or fantasies needed.

Unless you count the occasional dream where I need to shoot but the trigger pull has become impossibly heavy.

Edited to add:

I do have a mall to protect, though. That requires constant training and military grade weapons, of course.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Its grand standing.

 

[robertrwalsh]

I don't need a scenario. If I am outside my house I am almost certainly packing. People get robbed while washing their car or mowing their lawn in CA.

 

[chief38]

Self defense. Today, it seems many criminals are no longer just satisfied with your money and possessions - they need to kill or physically harm as well. Possessions can be replaced- your life can not!

 

[SteveJewels]

If I am ambulatory.

 

[s&wchad]

What are your most important scenarios for carrying a firearm

Leaving the house...

 

[OutAtTheEdge]

Being outside. The scenario doesn't determine WHEN I carry, but it does determine WHAT I carry.

Yesterday I spent a few hours checking/repairing the pasture fences. For that I holstered a 4" .357 M19. Mowing the lawn, I almost always carry a lightweight .22, usually a Ruger SR22. Going to town? P365. You get the idea.

 

[Narragansett]

I don't need a scenario. If I am outside my house I am almost certainly packing. People get robbed while washing their car or mowing their lawn in CA.

Man, that is a sad state of affairs.

 

[hardluk1]

Every time I walk outside of our home I have a handgun on me now for 37 years .

 

[tops]

I live in a rural area about 100 yds. off the road and I don't go outside unless I have the difference.
Once I was outside and a car full of people drove up and wanted gas. I told them I didn't have any and the person in the front passenger seat started to get out and I put my hand in my pocket and he closed the door and they left.
Living in a rural area does not mean that it's a crime free area. Larry

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

If I had a CCW-this is New Jersey-I was an Eagle Scout. "Be Prepared !"

 

[Rammer Jammer]

Wearing pants...if I am I am carrying.

 

[AlHunt]

I live in a rural area about 100 yds. off the road and I don't go outside unless I have the difference.
Once I was outside and a car full of people drove up and wanted gas. I told them I didn't have any and the person in the front passenger seat started to get out and I put my hand in my pocket and he closed the door and they left.
Living in a rural area does not mean that it's a crime free area. Larry

It lowers the odds quite a lot, but makes the odds of getting help a lot lower and the odds much better for anyone with bad intent.

Where I live we could have a single sheriff on patrol and he could be 30+ miles up country when things go south. And/or maybe already tied up with something else.

Side note: we have 17,000 people in our county. Today is eclipse day and they're expecting 40,000 of you to descend on us. I had to wait almost a full minute to make a left hand turn this morning!