Re: Carry Always and Everywhere It's Legal
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:19 pm
I even carry IN my house.
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. Same here I keep my rig on till its time to get ready for bed. You never know if you will need it or not. Always be prepared.RHenriksen wrote:I'm puzzled by this line of thinking - not just karder, but I hear this from a lot of people.karder wrote:It is really easy to get lax about carrying. Sometimes I don't feel like strapping on a service size pistol when I am just running out the door for a minute.
I have a pistol/holster/belt combination that works for me well enough that I never take it off unless I'm showering or in bed. So there's no 'strapping on' - if I'm awake, I have it on me. I just never need to think about it.
Not far from me. We had that whack job shoot the DPS employee right by my place a month or so ago. This is a nice nieghborhood as well. Goes to show you never can tell. I carry everytime I leave the house. My wife was unsure at first but after that she was happy I was carrying then again after the Aurora shootings, and again after the Sikh Temple. I think she is considering getting her own CHL now.ShepherdTX wrote: It's manor, 290 and shadowglen. I'm out and about tonight (and carrying a bigger gun plus extra mags) but I plan on swinging by the store to get the details tonight or tomorrow.
Ha, I was thinking of Brookfield as well.Wow, that's quite a story. Just out of curiosity, are you describing the store at Dessau Road and Tudor House? Your story sounds like it could be my neighborhood.
Just wondering.
Good thinking on recognizing that anything can happen anywhere at anytime, and carrying that through to not going out unarmed. However, count yourself as fortunate that you didn't have to learn the results of that .380 vs. metal pipe test firsthand.ShepherdTX wrote:More details on the incident:
Two black males, both wearing gloves and white t shirt across mouth. One of them had a metal pipe that he was using as a weapon. That guy was tall 6' 3". They didn't drive away, they ran into the neighborhood.
So they may be living here. Might also explain the recent property crime in the neighborhood. Still creepy to me that had I been there an hour or two earlier, we definitely would have put the .380 vs. metal pipe debate to the test.
Nowhere has ever been reliably safe in our lifetimes.BKRushing wrote:I have only had my permit a a little over a month now and while at first I only carried coming and going to my office and when I had deposits to make. Since then I have seen and heard of enough going wrong in seemingly unlikely places that I carry all the time now. You just never know when some nut job is going to come down with a case of stupid. Be it at a movie theater or a house of worship. No where is safe anymore.
Why do people keep spreading this crap? If you look into any of the data, most handgun wounds are survivable. You think you're going to shoot someone with your .45, they're going to go flying back, and drop -- that just doesn't happen. Some handgun calibers give you a little bigger hole and a little more penetrating power, which gives a little more likelihood of hitting a vital. That's it. Placement is still key.A determined guy with a pipe can do a lot of damage and, while no pistol round is a sure thing for an instant stop, the .380 relies more on a psychological stop (the bad guy freaks out that he's been shot) rather than a disabling physical stop than do more powerful rounds.
Food for thought: when you need a gun, you need all the gun you can manage.
Yes, shot placement is very important. A .380 is better than nothing, but I will take that bigger hole (aka more blood loss and diameter to potentially hit a vital organ), better penetration (going through clothes, bone and deeper to hit a vital organ), and the muzzle energy to induce more shock to the body so it may cause the central nervous system to be impacted or cause the BG to feel more impact and surrender.ATXchl81 wrote:Why do people keep spreading this crap? If you look into any of the data, most handgun wounds are survivable. You think you're going to shoot someone with your .45, they're going to go flying back, and drop -- that just doesn't happen. Some handgun calibers give you a little bigger hole and a little more penetrating power, which gives a little more likelihood of hitting a vital. That's it. Placement is still key.A determined guy with a pipe can do a lot of damage and, while no pistol round is a sure thing for an instant stop, the .380 relies more on a psychological stop (the bad guy freaks out that he's been shot) rather than a disabling physical stop than do more powerful rounds.
Food for thought: when you need a gun, you need all the gun you can manage.
i used to carry a .380 and spat the same argument at every single person who questioned my caliber choice. i said things like, 'lower recoil means better control which means, I'M the one with the upper hand against someone with a .45'ATXchl81 wrote:Why do people keep spreading this crap? If you look into any of the data, most handgun wounds are survivable. You think you're going to shoot someone with your .45, they're going to go flying back, and drop -- that just doesn't happen. Some handgun calibers give you a little bigger hole and a little more penetrating power, which gives a little more likelihood of hitting a vital. That's it. Placement is still key.A determined guy with a pipe can do a lot of damage and, while no pistol round is a sure thing for an instant stop, the .380 relies more on a psychological stop (the bad guy freaks out that he's been shot) rather than a disabling physical stop than do more powerful rounds.
Food for thought: when you need a gun, you need all the gun you can manage.
Excaliber wrote:Nowhere has ever been reliably safe in our lifetimes.BKRushing wrote:I have only had my permit a a little over a month now and while at first I only carried coming and going to my office and when I had deposits to make. Since then I have seen and heard of enough going wrong in seemingly unlikely places that I carry all the time now. You just never know when some nut job is going to come down with a case of stupid. Be it at a movie theater or a house of worship. No where is safe anymore.
ATXchl81 wrote:Why do people keep spreading this crap? If you look into any of the data, most handgun wounds are survivable. You think you're going to shoot someone with your .45, they're going to go flying back, and drop -- that just doesn't happen. Some handgun calibers give you a little bigger hole and a little more penetrating power, which gives a little more likelihood of hitting a vital. That's it. Placement is still key.A determined guy with a pipe can do a lot of damage and, while no pistol round is a sure thing for an instant stop, the .380 relies more on a psychological stop (the bad guy freaks out that he's been shot) rather than a disabling physical stop than do more powerful rounds.
Food for thought: when you need a gun, you need all the gun you can manage.