Carrying a Gun?

[midlifebear]

Easy...Texas is not an open-carry state. Constitutionally, I disagree with the legal basis, but civilians in Texas are not permitted to openly carry handguns in public by state law.

I've posted on this matter before...the instruction and training required to obtain a CHL in Texas place you in a legal status distinct from regular citizens. The law expects you to have a more discrete understanding of particular conditions, and you are subject to more stringent punishments for some offenses.

Thanks, Hazelgod. Seriously, that particular law has always confused me and the way it is written never made sense.

Too the surprise, I'm sure, of many LPSG-ers, I'm not anti-gun. They've always been around in my life, one in each bedroom where I grew up. And I actually believe the NRA does a great job of teaching and certifying people for gun safety. But the NRA also attracts folks I would prefer never to have any contact with my entire life. Last gun I owned was a double-barrel 10 gage, but someone decided they needed it more than me and removed it from over the fireplace in a home I once lived in. I'm not a hunter. And target practice has done nothing for those I know than ruin their hearing. But I do worry about those who are so frightened that Obama is going to take away their guns and turn the USA into a commie/socialist state. Those folks worry me more, not because of their fear of Obama, but because they tend to believe anything. For example, I'm sure they believe canyons have mouths. But I do believe -- and I'm deadly serious about this -- that to pass gun safety and receive gun safety certification, one of the requirements should be that all applicants be shot, take a bullet, in a part of the body where no serious damage will occur so they know what the fuck a gun shot feels like.

There is a very big disconnect between pointing a gun and understanding the ramifications of shooting a bullet into an animal or other human being.

 

[maxcok]

Also, penis size has nothing to do with carrying a gun. Accusing someone of having a small cock for exercising their second amendment right is the same as accusing someone for having a small cock for going to a mosque or synagogue. (1st amendment right)

* Wonders why Buildingtaunt is soooo sensitive about this*

I live in an area where fellas like to drive really LOUD pickups. I am currently proposing a local ordinance where if you are busted for a noise violation, your full body naked mug shot will be published in the local town newspaper. I think it would solve the problem in a jiffy.

Fellas do like to compensate, don't they? See alot of that here on the big weenie site. Even some who ain't fellas. Always knew fellas were obsessed with their cocks, and especially the size of their cocks. Never realized how much obsessed they were till I showed up here. Fascinating.

 

[RawDog]

Your rebuttal is a website selling a "knife combat system" for 79 dollars.

Didn't I just finish saying I didn't know anything about his system, but the reasoning he cites is what I've learned as being sound?

Oh, also pretty much everything on the link you provided is patently absurd, as well. Really, it is shocking that anyone buys into this garbage. If you would like to continue this conversation, I would be happy to. Because you are ignorant and wrong. This is a common problem among Dwight Schrute McDojo blackbelts.

That's it? No proof? No reason? No claim?

"Patently absurd" isn't an argument.

 

[B_Mister Buildington]

Ugh, I really hate getting into conversations that I actually care about. It's like getting trolled by default.

 

[D_Relentless Original]

So which states if any are against this? and also i presume you would not be allowed to fly if you had a gun even with a permit? am i wrong? can permit holders carry their gun onto a flight?

 

[B_Mister Buildington]

Illinois and Wisconsin do not issue concealed carry permits.

California, Iowa, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and Alabama essentially allow local authorities to decide whether or not to issue an individual a permit.

If you're interested in a state by state rundown of gun policies, this is a good link for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_(by_state)

You cannot take a gun on a plane, from my understanding, unless you are an air marshal. If you want to travel with a gun, I don't believe you can even carry it in your luggage. I believe there is a special protocol for that, where the airport specially transports it.

 

[nudeyorker]

So which states if any are against this? and also i presume you would not be allowed to fly if you had a gun even with a permit? am i wrong? can permit holders carry their gun onto a flight?

In the US you need to be a government employee and have to have a special permit and form to do so.

 

[D_Andreas Sukov]

In the US you need to be a government employee and have to have a special permit and form to do so.

Thats beyond scary.

 

[D_Relentless Original]

In the US you need to be a government employee and have to have a special permit and form to do so.

Hi Nude, what sort of Government employee?

 

[nudeyorker]

Hi Nude, what sort of Government employee?

Well nothing low level. They are not giving permits to Meter Maids. Government employees who would carry a gun as part of their daily job. Believe me this is not the sort of thing that is easily given, it would likely be easier for President Obama to get invited to starinvestor's house for dinner to have a friendly chat about how much they have in common.

 

[D_Relentless Original]

Well nothing low level. They are not giving permits to Meter Maids. Government employees who would carry a gun as part of their daily job. Believe me this is not the sort of thing that is easily given, it would likely be easier for President Obama to get invited to starinvestor's house for dinner to have a friendly chat about how much they have in common.

Lol cheers nude

 

[B_curiousme01]

I open carry a Glock 23. Most people don't even bat an eye. People are actually nicer than they were when I didn't carry. I know I might look a little odd because I am so small and I carry a powerful weapon on my hip. But it doesn't bother me. I only want to have to shoot a bad guy once, so I carry a 40 calibur.

I've decided to take a concealed carry class on the 14th and will have to wait 60 days for a more intense background and mental health check before I receive my cc permit.

I have spent hours learning how to properly handle it and practicing at the gun range.

If more responsible people carried guns, the crime level would drop to almost nothing. Criminals don't want you to be able to shoot back! They want you defenseless, which the majority of the USA population is, and they know it. They don't have a gun permit and could care less about taking a safety class.

Someone said here they would use their hands if someone broke into there house! This tells me they've never been on the receiving end of someone in your house pointing a shoutgun in your face. Horrible feeling to think you're going to die because you chose not to have a way to defend yourself. I learned the hard way.

Guns don't kill people people. People kill people.

Also, most guns don't "accidentlly" go off. I hear news reports all the time about this happening. You have to put your finger on the trigger and pull it. Also, many need to be "cocked" before you can pull the trigger. Anyone who cleans their weapon while it's loaded is just stupid.

I can drop or runover my Glock and it will not fire.

I think of all the people raped, robbed, beaten, or killed who did not have a means to protect themsleves. A doctor recently had his house broken into and they brutally killed his entire family. They thought they killed him too. If he had a gun, and if his family knew how to safely handle one, all or some of them would be alive today.

Pepper spray and tasers will work for a second if there's only one bad guy.

The world is violent and will always be so. It's up to each person to decide if they vaule their life more than a fear of handling a gun.

Gun permits have skyrocketed since 2008 in my state. It used to take three days to get a permit. It now takes no less than 30. The club I took my safety class at said woman make up 2/3rds of the classes they offer. When I go to the gun store, there are almost as many women shopping as men. Times are changing. Protect yourself and the people you love. You have a choice in the USA. Be an Army of one!

 

[shaved7]

I have a concealed carry permit and do carry a handgun almost everyday except while I'm working. What a lot of people against carrying firearms for self defense or even those against any ownership of guns period don't realize is that the vast majority of us 'gun nuts' are law abiding citizens who have spent years practicing, caring for and using firearms since childhood in my case. Guns are tools that have a purpose. While I would never open carry(my pistol is always concealed on my body, usually a kimber 1911 .45 acp) I do respect others such as curiousme01's right to do so if they please. In my state background checks are performed before anyone receives a ccw permit to prevent anyone with a violent crime or any felonies from getting one. I do think the courses should be more extensive in the way of marksmanship and basic safe handling just for the number of new gun owners taking the class with their first handgun.

 

[shaved7]

By the way very good post curiousme01

 

[B_curiousme01]

If you are in a covert, or close quarters situation, then I would go for a knife, quick and quietly. Go between the fifth and sixth rib, hit the heart and a lung. This is truly quicker and quieter, but requires stealth and surprise.

I'm a small female and was taught to penetrate the attackers eye. Women are typically smaller and weaker and a knife in the eye will take anyone down no matter what size they are.

 

[Remington]

I have a CCW, and I carry either a GLOCK 21 or a Colt Defender.

And I keep an AR-15 Pistol chambered in either .300blackout or 6.8SPC in my car. If I am wearing a coat/jacket large enough to conceal it, I might carry it along with the GLOCK.

I very rarely open carry any of my firearms, mainly because I don't want the attention that it brings. The times I have open carried, somebody gets scared/bothered and will sometimes cause a scene, or even worse, call the cops over nothing.

And good post, curiousme01!

 

[shaved7]

Remington, that's exactly the reason I don't like open carry, because of the negative attention it brings and the ones who see someone with a gun and think they're out to kill somebody. While the visual image could prevent a possible crime in a public place, I think it to someone determined on bringing harm, it would make you the prime target, because you would obviously be their biggest threat.

 

[B_Marius567]

I'm a small female and was taught to penetrate the attackers eye. Women are typically smaller and weaker and a knife in the eye will take anyone down no matter what size they are.

you will poke a mans eyes out and do it with a Knife your mean
how will you like have your eyes poked out?

 

[aninnymouse]

If only everyone who owns a gun could be as responsible as some of the people who've posted on this thread about carrying guns, IE Remingon and Curiousme.

Sadly, many people are not, and that's what gives guns a bad name, and what in many respects, IMO, leads to the proliferation of rampant, unnecessary, irresponsible gun ownership.

/Never personally seen the value in owning a gun, but I don't bag on it. Just Please, BE RESPONSIBLE!

 

[MarkLondon]

The land of the free? Free to kill eachother. The armed are mad. You do know the myths of the Wild West are just that, myths? There was very little crime as your population spread west. Now you've got kids in school being shot by police for not putting down their (fake) gun? Madmen picking off strangers from vantage-points?

In the UK, about every ten years or so we have some psycho shooting a stranger in the head. The latest was a 20 yr old in Manchester slaying an Indian student. We treat them as psychos and lock 'em up for life.

We can knock on a door without expecting to be blasted by a shotgun. Wanna kill someone? Do it like a man, mano a mano, hand to hand or kitchen knives at best.

Over her you have to be vetted by the police to hold a firearm. And still they kill. A recent case was a taxi-driver licensed to hold six(!) guns. He blasted his wife, her sister and his neice before killing himself.

If weapons are so good why don't you allow Iran the bomb?