Why I carry a gun

[LIMA BEAN]

But on the other hand, if everyone felt like this, can you imagine how many people would have guns on them everyday? It would be like simolia or pakastan in the united states. Speaking from my own experiance learned in the army, along with my brother being in the army reserves and a maryland state police officer, i can honestly say the less people with firearms, the better off we will all be. Having a deadly weapon can be just as bad as being unarmed, and eather way, you still need to know how to defend yourself, and disarm somebody else....or somebody else better at hand to hand combat WILL disarm and kill you if it came down to it, especially if you pulled a weapon

Bull, you should be issued weapons at the same time your birth certificate is being filled out.

 

[Grey_04]

i love by cross bow. pop a bolt out of that and make people wonder were it came from especially if it hits the door of the parts truck behind them,,,

 

[--weezl--]

you would be much safer with an edged weapon, kinves are VERY difficult to disarm without getting hurt, howeverm your average person can disarm a gun, before they get shot...

essentially, you can be attacked from 46,656,000 degrees (360 degrees x 3 dimentions) a gun can attack in exactly 1 degree, all a person needs to do is make sure that 1 degree is not where they are...

a human's visual analasys time is approx 190 miliseconds, which means that if you are holding a gun to someone's head, it will take 190 miliseconds after you actually see them move, for your brain to realize that they are moving, there is another period of time for your brain to make the decision to pull the trigger, and then another period of time for your brain to tell your finger to do it, then 1 more period of time while you actually are pulling the trigger...

i don't know the actual number, but this, best case scenario, if you KNEW the guy was going to try to snatch the gun from you, is somewhere around .3 seconds, then there's the time for the bullet to leave the barrel, any movement of the gun, while the bullet is in the barrel, will cause the bullet to go somewhere else... yes this is a VERY short period of time, but we are talking total, less than half a second...

additionally, if you were holding a gun to someone, you're going to be pumped with adrenalin, yes this gives you a better physical advantage, but it puts you into the fight or flight mode, which hinders your thinking and control, so your reaction time is going to suffer...

all a person, who is trying to disarm you, has to do, is knock the gun out of aim, within that .3-.4 second window, then proceed to wrestle it away from you... go get a friend and a water pistol, try it outside, tell them when they see you moving, trying to take the gun, to shoot, but don't shoot before that, stand facing them, and when you are ready "snap" and twist, all you have to do is slap the barrel away from your body, and you've won for now... the actual disarm from that point on is a little more tricky, but they are only going to be holding the gun with 1 hand, and you will probably have both on there before he consciously knows what's going on... and most people who have no training in this manner, when they get startled (which they will) open their hands and put their hands up, as a reaction to not get their fingers caught in machinery or under a vehicle that's falling, or something like that...

knives on the other hand, they attack in roughly 23,000,000 degrees... and there is a lot less real-estate to grab, most of which you are already holding on to... the chances of them disarming you without getting cut (unless they are spesifically trained in disarming edged weapons) is like 1:10 if that... and even if they are trained, they still won't do any better than probably 50/50...

in canada also, it's MUCH easier to justify carrying a knife than a gun, a knife is a tool, a gun is a weapon, that's law... any tool that is used to injure or hurt a person is classified (if articulated properly) as a "weapon of opportunity" it would be like you found it on the ground while fighting the person... you didn't have it spesifically to harm someone...

same kinda deal with pepper spray, in canada pepper spray is illegal, HOWEVER, dog spray (pepper spray with "dog repellent" on the can) is legal, because it's designed for a dog, not a person... it's not a weapon, it's a tool... if you happen to have it because you are scared of stray dogs, and use it on a person, you can articulate it, and will most likely be found justified... (pepper spray is classifed as a restricted weapon, and carrying it can land you in jail, regardless of if you use it or not, butterfly knifes, switch blades, collapsible batons and brass knuckles are also in this category)

 

[8879ford]

Honestly, carrying a weapon just gives you a false sense of security....simpilly put, lets just say you are walking down the street, 3am and nobody is around. A man tells you to give him your wallet....so you pull your gun on the robber....maybe that robber can defend himself better than you....and disarms you, and on top of that, you now have a broken arm, cracked ribs, broken nose, no wallet and no gun....do you see what just happened? Now on top of that, the gun the robber took from you can now be used to do bad things....if you didnt have a weapon in that situation, and just knew how to defend yourself....you would still have your wallet, and the robber would be on the ground with your knee in his neck...waiting for the cops to get there

 

[8879ford]

In a real situation, when a life is on the line, the best thing is to have NO WEAPONS. Even if you think a gun will even the odds in your favor, you might be horriablly wrong. I have seen properlly trained men in combat situations unarmed, with the abillity to take down severall armed men...and i mean disarm them, and use their own weapons against them. Knowlege is your best freind, not a gun...

 

[Jason]

I carry a gun because I can. I don't have it out, no one knows I have it, so there is no need to explain.

 

[97fordrunner]

I am waiting for WI to pass conceal and carry so I can get my permit. As for safety, I work for a very small Diesel repair shop and the owners wife has a very nice Jewelry shop in the same building and not gonna Lie I do have a Taurus Judge in my tool box cause we are on a quite country road just outside town and have had some weird-o's out looking around before. I also got one of those small pepper spray guns for my wife as she is 6 months prego and there has been some weird guy in her store that follows her and acts weird as hell, they can't remove him for that cause he hasn't done anything bad yet. Stupid rules. But she feels safer when walking to her car with her hand resting on it anyways

 

[--weezl--]

man, you guys need to step your laws up...

if i own a business here, i can legally say to anyone, for ANY reason, that i see fit "you are no longer welcome here" i can then proceed to escort them off the property, if i feel like it, if they refuse, i can use force, if they resist by fighting, or even pulling away, i can arrest and charge them with "assault by trespasser" which is the same criminal section as assault, if they leave willingly, and come back, they can be arrested, and charged with "TPA" which is more or less tresspassing... the TPA (trespass to premis act) is enforceable by "any person" once a legal bar has been issued (ie, you barring someone from a premis) this bar can be written, verbal, or posted, if you have a sign on a door to the back room on your store, that says "staff only" you can arrest them and charge them with trespassing, for going through the door

 

[doorgunner]

Why I don't carry a gun: I'll use it--some people just need to be killed.

Like the wet-back that murdered my son/like the guy in the dually with the fake testicles hanging from the back bumper, who cut me & my wife off nearly sending us into a concrete barrier at 60 mph/like the low life who stuck a pistol to the back of my head at a walk-up ATM machine one morning/like the worthless punk who shot the kid who does our yardwork while he waited in his car for his mother to get off work/etc/etc/etc.

Probably a good thing that I promised God that I wouldn't kill another person after I returned from Viet Nam.........even if they really needed killing.



edit: ohhhh yeah......I forgot....like the ex son in law that threatened to kill my daughter while she was pregnant.......

re-edit: besides---killing someone ain't all it's craked-up to be....it's completely different than anything you've ever experienced---or ever will experience.......unless your just plain stupid & evil, killing another human even in war, keeps you awake for about 72 hours for some reason......and unless your just plain stupid & evil, you have to kill 8 or 9 people to really get over the destruction of a human life---even if they are your enemy. After 8 or 9, it gets easier each time...then you begin to think with your weapon/not your brain or even your penis. But, sometimes......at around 3 a.m. in the morning.......you wonder for a minute.......then, you wake up & do it again.


re-re-edit: which reminds me...pray for our troops/law enforcement officers.....

 

[straycat]

My grandad always said...'Son, we are all naked under our clothes'....
Makes since to me. If we all walked around naked you can see who packs heat and who does not...lol

 

['99 EB Explorer]

Why I don't carry a gun: I'll use it--some people just need to be killed.

Like the wet-back that murdered my son/like the guy in the dually with the fake testicles hanging from the back bumper, who cut me & my wife off nearly sending us into a concrete barrier at 60 mph/like the low life who stuck a pistol to the back of my head at a walk-up ATM machine one morning/like the worthless punk who shot the kid who does our yardwork while he waited in his car for his mother to get off work/etc/etc/etc.

Probably a good thing that I promised God that I wouldn't kill another person after I returned from Viet Nam.........even if they really needed killing.



edit: ohhhh yeah......I forgot....like the ex son in law that threatened to kill my daughter while she was pregnant.......

I see your point. Mostly on that last one. I have a daughter of my own and idiots like him make my blood boil...

Glad you made it through everything tho man!

 

[gribly]

I carry around my property sometimes, sometimes have one in my truck, but I don't carry in public. I live in an area where I am not too concerned about someone trying to mug me or anything. Plus, even with my injuries, I'm likely to have a field day with some desperate person that tries to steal anything from me.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I only carry when I intend to shoot something, I hunt and target practice from time to time and that is about all I have to use a gun for.

Here in Mayberry there isn't a whole lot to worry about as far as being mugged/robbed. I am cooridinated enough I would probably fumble it and shoot myself in the foot anyway.

 

[Ryannn]

I know about the Tailgate Forum... haha, but this seems like its a good general discussion.

 

[4.0B2]

but if you look, general discussion is under TRUCK discussions. its for truck discussions that don't fit in an exact forum elsewhere. i've made this mistake before... lol