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Purplehood wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:

gabe wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:If a bad guy knows your armed, they may very well shoot you in the back of the head instead of trying to threaten you. Your wife running around with CHL holder all over her could easily make a theif want to steal her gun or even cause a gang banger to want to take her out for sport. This idea that people are afraid of you because you have a gun is simply not true. You and your wife aren't scaring anyone with your guns. Watch a couple episodes of that inside prison show. Bad people will feed you your gun.

Keep it a secret and surprise the bad guy. Then you and your wife have a chance. Let em know your armed and they will just take you two out commando style. Nobody is afraid of you and your gun... trust me....PLEASE!!!!

You can't turn on the TV these days without seeing your story happening in open carry states every day.

Don't get me started on bank guards and armored car couriers who open carry, There must be hundreds getting killed "commando style" every day in Texas alone.

By your thinking, there would never be a robbery of any establishment with armed gaurds. There would also never be any armed car couriers robbed. Both happen all the time. Apparently the gun showing or even the knowledge of the courier having a gun, didn't scare off those bad guys.

You make me curious now. Do open carry states have less crime??? By your thinking, they should.

I just returned from running around Portsmouth, VA and surrounding historical sites and failed to see a single case of Open Carry.

I was in Virginia several times in the past few years and never saw anyone open carrying either. But then again, I really wasn't looking for it, so even if I did see a gun strapped to someone I might have just thought it was a cop or something. I actually did not know they had open carry there until reading this forum.

I have given much consideration to carrying concealed and came across this posting during my research.

We carry so that if we have to defend our life we have the option. We practice to hone our skills at the range so we can get that perfect grouping. Dry practice drawing and other activities are also part of the thought process. But what about AFTER the trigger is pulled. In the event I have to have my gun drawn until police arrive on the scene I want to give the police every chance to correctly assess the situation and not shoot me. A badge is completely ridiculous as are a sash or the hoffner ID holder. Like Teamless posted, I also use a wallet with a detachable ID holder (with a small addition).

You can get them at Walmart for $15.

The style is called a passcase wallet.
I put my permit in the bottom half which stays hidden in a slot in the wallet and my Driver license on top.

This allows me to remove my driver’s license only by sliding it out of the holder or remove the whole holder with both my permit and DL for traffic stops and such.

I did however add a small loop of heavy thread to the ID holder.

It can be tucked into one of the extra card slots in the back the detachable holder.

The cord stays tucked away and out of sight.

But should the need arise, the cord can pulled out and used to hang the ID holder around my neck.

Of course putting the gun down as police pull up (not after) and putting my hands in the air is the first option.
But who would you rather be when the police roll up?
Subject A?

Or subject B?

I choose B.