Please keep the racist accusation crap toned down unless it is a CLEAR indication of racism. This isn't a term to throw around lightly, you need to have some proof to back it up.
half huh?
racist.
Maybe 4 reasonably fit guys? 10 seconds of google produces:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/04/05/3154687/johnson-wales-student-reports.html
It's rare, but it happens. My gun is disaster insurance, nothing more. It's not the act of carrying that makes one paranoid, it's the attitude. If someone's carrying and they're constantly looking around for some imminent threat like a wannabe-rambo, or constantly showing it off, then they're some combination of paranoid and/or insecure. With me and guys like me, you could hang out with us all day and you'd never know we were carrying unless we told you. And we wouldn't unless the conversation went that way for some reason. On average I think about my gun less than I think about my wallet.
Another nice perk about carrying all the time. Once you feel comfortable enough to tell someone, it's an instant litmus test as to how judgmental they are.
Move out of the shit neighborhood you live in.
I'm glad reports of joggers being mugged on the trail in broad daylight are so rare where you live. In many areas that is not the case.
lol @ paranoia.
Where I walk, there are BEARS (well, I saw one once). I don't even carry a gun, not that it's legal here. If I lived in a place where people regularly randomly attack others, I'd move. The bears are the biggest worry, and tbh they don't really worry me that much since they usually give you a funny look, then run away. They look so cuddly too. :wub:
You can also wear an Affliction tshirt. Nobody will mess with you because of how badass you are.
It has never happened to me or anyone I know so it's rare enough that I won't bother strapping a gun to my body every single time I leave the house.
What are the downsides? I would imagine the hassle of getting a CCW, choosing clothes that allow you to easily hide a gun must be a PITA too unless you're one of those tools who wears long pants in summer with a safari shirt and vest?
How about mistaken identity if you do actually ever need to draw your gun? Because Police have never shot and killed a CCW holder by accident I'm sure.
Then there's the whole FL thing with that Zimmerman guy, who is supposedly hispanic so he couldn't possible a racist, who shot that unarmed black kid.
Yeah, I can think of a whole lot of reasons to leave the guns at home actually...
Are you a 100lb woman? Who would mug a reasonably fit man in broad daylight on a jogging trail? Who carries anything worth stealing when they jog?
I'm with the crowd who thinks you guys who carry all the time are a little kooky... and/or paranoid.
Stop that... I carry while I swim. At least 1 person a year is mugged in my area while swimming, can't have that happening...
I live in a very nice area which is inside of the best part of Atlanta, and at least once a week someone is at minimum robbed and beaten a bit within ~10 miles of here. Like many nice areas, we have not so nice neighborhoods on one side and get thugs who walk through on their way to get who knows what, since the train station is over on that side.
Once or twice a month someone taken at gun/knife point at atms and forced to empty them, or forced to drive home to give up valuables - hopefully they're let go after that, but sometimes only the man is let out and they borrow the woman for a few days before hopefully releasing alive.
A couple times a year we have someone seriously brutally and needlessy murdered. The last one was a young woman on a walking trail ~5 miles outside of the city. A couple of kids drug her in the woods and raped her over a few hours before killing her. She fought back so hard (complete with pepper spray) that one of the kids had to be hospitalized due to his cheek getting pulled off his face.
You are absolutely naive if you think these things cannot happen to you. Sure the chances are low, particularly if you're male and don't have a woman with you, and stick to known 'safe' areas. FYI, often times even if you're paying attention you're in 'the hood' and you don't even know it.
FYI, the most brutal of crimes are generally not reported by your local newspapers or media unless the family speaks out.
Don't be a victim. Part of what makes these crimes so common nowadays is few are willing to protect themselves or fight back.
Also FYI, I grew up in the hood.. the real hood... and have seen numerous disgusting and terrible situations as I was growing up. It does happen, and there are tons of senseless crimes, murders, rapes, with no indication it was going to happen or forewarning.
lol if this stuff happens regularly you are not in a "nice area".
I cannot recall the last time there was an incident here where someone was randomly mugged or murdered or any random act of violence done on a random person. There is violence here to some extent but it's usually "inside". Ex: a few months ago there was a huge school fight between two high schools next to each other and people were sent to the hospital. These people were not going around mugging random people on the street, they were fighting each other. The police got there and it was the end of that.
And assuming a murderer also has a gun, what good with it do if I also have one when a bullet is on a direct path to my head from behind the bushes? When it comes to a gun fight, the person that shoots first is usually the winner. You can have the biggest gun in the world, if someone shoots you in the head you wont be taking it out to shoot the person back.
But yeah if the town is that bad, cover up your windows with checker steel plate, and buy a treadmill.
Definitely does sound like a war zone to me. I'm glad I don't have to worry about my life being taken by some random person on an every day basis.
Definitely does sound like a war zone to me. I'm glad I don't have to worry about my life being taken by some random person on an every day basis.