Civilian with CC uses gun to stop shooting

I just leave it loaded. Seconds may matter.

 

Seconds do matter but it's a chance I take.

Imagine yourself at a traffic light and out of nowhere someone comes out pointing a gun to car jack you. It would be hard to draw in time even with one in the chamber. Again, it's just a chance I take not keeping one in the chamber but you can be dam sure the magazine is attached. One rack and I'm in the game.

 

Not me. That's not a game I'm willing to play. Take my car and I'm happy going home to the wife and kids.

 

If someone points a gun at me it's no longer about them taking my car. pew pew

 

Same here. I keep mine unchambered. I carry a Glock and Glock's don't have safeties. But it's crazy to take the magazine out. You could fumble with it in the dark or because you're nervous while keeping one eye on the approaching possible assailant.

You auto insurance will take car of your car loss and your life insurance will take care of your family if the crazy mofo crackhead shoots you.

 

It would be stupid for soccer moms and most other people to open carry. But very, very few of us choose to open carry even though we have that right. When we see these people on TV at open carry rallies it's easy to call them nuts and weirdos. And most of them are pretty far off the mainstream. They tend to be very politically conservative and religious fundamentalists. A lot of them home school their kids. But these aren't bad people. They tend to be very law abiding. You never hear about them getting into a barroom shootout or a road rage gunfight. You never hear about their 6 year old son killing his 2 year old sister with a loaded gun they have carelessly left lying around the house. Open carry is not just a political statement to these people. It's a way of life.

I most likely wouldn't want to hang around with these people but if for some reason I found myself in their midst I wouldn't feel the slightest bit nervous because they were all carrying guns. Most of them seem to live out west in Montana, Utah, Idaho, Nevada in smaller towns and wide open spaces. If a lot of people started carrying openly in Baton Rouge or OKC or any mid sized to large city they would pass laws against it before you could say Dirty Harry.

 

It happens occasionally. I'm not sure it's worth the cost of the thousands who die needlessly because of the handful of times it works out positively...

 

OKC already has an open carry law. Thank God there aren't enough who have channeled the ghost of Roy Rogers and I just don't see a lot of it. I don't have a problem with the 345 people that inhabit the state of Montana wanting to carry, its still the freaking wild west out there and that is normal. There are some, a few, that do it just because they can and by no means am I saying they don't have a right to, I just think it is stupid. Conceal, ok. Strap it on your hip like you are some sort of billy bad ass and you instantly become as big of a douche as anyone with white framed sunglasses.

 

I don't think most places have a specific law. It's legal because nobody ever made it illegal. I'm pretty sure some cities must have passed laws against it by now. Walk down 5th Avenue with a shotgun slung over your shoulder and see how long it takes before the SWAT team shows up.