There are people who don't carry a gun and live.
I was outside walking the wife's dog. The thought came to mind that there are people who love their entire lives and don't carry a gun everyday. I guess I just take for granted that a gun is part of the day. I got to thinking that many will survive this world unarmed. I have carried so long I can't imagine not carrying. I can image how free it must be to go through life and not think of carry gun or caliber or holster or even that there is a need for such. Yes I know if the time comes they ever need a gun they will wish they had one. I just can't help but think of how peaceful if a bit nieve to not worry about what threat may be lurking in the shadows. There are those who will live their entire lives and never carry the first round. There are those who can't or won't walk to the mailbox without spare mags and a bug.
There are people who don't carry a gun and live.
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Ed L
It's always your choice and your decision.
You can always downsize to a smaller, less capable gun that will be easier to carry--like a J-frame or a Kahr PM-9 in a pocket holster. They don't carry the number of rounds as say a Glock 19, they may be harder to place rounds accurately with, but they are certainly light years better than being unarmed.
Tom Givens previously wrote two things that really impressed me:
"You can never make an appointment for an emergency."
and:
"A couple of posters have used words like “never” to describe the odds of using defensive handgun skills, or stated that one is FAR more likely to die of heart disease or stroke than to find himself in a gunfight. I disagree.
About 600,000 people a year die of heart disease in the US (CDC figure). In 2011, 5.8 million people were the victims of violent crime (US DOJ figure). That’s almost 10 times as many people falling victim to violent crime. By the way, that figure only includes four crimes: Murder, Aggravated Assault, Forcible Rape and Robbery. These are precisely the events that we carry guns and train to counter.
I’ve never had a heart attack, but I have had to use a gun to defend myself as a private citizen. I refuse to let whether I live or die be dictated by an illiterate scumbag. That’s why I train and carry.
Violent crime comparison, 2009, source- FBI Uniform Crime Report
City population Violent Crimes Murders Robberies Aggravated Assaults Odds
Memphis 667,421 12,055 132 4,139 7,402 1 in 55
Los Angeles 3,848,776 22,250 312 11,106 9,991 1 in 173
Miami 419,205 4,983 59 2,094 2,765 1 in 84"
That an interesting statistic. Thanks for sharing. I wrote a pretty lengthy post on the topic, and would appear I was incorrect. I should have double checked my statistics.
ETA: in my post, however, fwiw, I was pretty directly targeting the severely obese and otherwise unhealthy person, not you’re average healthy American. There’s multiple ways one could view and manipulate that statistic.
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There are people who don't carry a gun and live.
I knew zip about guns until 2014. I just just decided one day I wasn’t going to be a victim, and bought one.
Four years later, I’m still figuring out how much more there is to ‘carrying a gun’.
Awareness of my surroundings, and the people, figures much more prominently in my life now. Carrying some life saving gear, on me, is another.
I’m also more often than not pocketing a non lethal option, like my Sabre Red spray.
I’ve also realized that ‘I’ need to be in better shape, so I have started a weight loss diet, and am going to look at Combative options this summer (this BJJ stuff y’all talk about) after our house renovation completes. I’m also going to try to schedule ECQC sometime in 2019.
Lastly, in the event my life, or the life of my loved one is threatened, I spend time training to be proficient in using my pistol. Carrying daily has become part of my life now, that it feels kinda weird not having my holster on.
There are people who don't carry a gun and live.
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45dotACP
It was only after I got my carry permit that I started to see/hear things around my white bread picket fence neighborhood that made me to question whether my neighborhood was really as crime free as I thought.
Like the time I left a Jewel-Osco only 5 minutes before a dude shot his wife to death in the parking lot...or a co-worker whose husband was gunned down in front of her and her kids in a restaurant (he was a drug dealer), or that a dude was shot to death in a field behind the Meijer or a kid from my town who murdered his Mom and Dad when they picked him up from college. You never know what's swimming in the sea with you, even in a relatively white collar neighborhood.
Before I got my permit, I was just getting started in BJJ. My academy has an upstairs room for my professors to get changed between Gi, No-gi and street clothes and when I was standing at the stairwell, talking to some other students, I could distinctly hear the racking of a slide after my professor went upstairs.
If a 3rd degree black belt under Mestre Ricardo Murgel was carrying, I find it reasonable that I should too. My professors both carry and both suggest carrying a firearm if possible, because their master suggests the same. A lot of the BJJ guys whose history goes way back to the origins of the art remember that BJJ came up not only as a sport, but also for actual, full contact fighting. Brazil was, and still is a violent place, and unarmed combat is only a small frame of a big picture for a lot of these dudes when punks on the street carried knives and guns.
Most people will go through life without being exposed to violence...and often they're the ones making laws saying that we only "need" a six shooter and a 12 gauge side by side. Anybody who has seen, experienced or trained to handle actual violence knows that's a bunch of bull.
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Count me as another BJJ black belt that carries a gun every day for the same reason. When you’re fighting for your life the goal is to get home with as little damage as possible. I love inverted heel hooks, they make me happy in so many ways, but a gun is the best tool for that job more often than not when the shit really hits the fan, i.e. armed robbery.
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