Re: Do you carry at home?
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:33 am
Yes
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If I remember correctly, you purchased your first handgun a couple years ago when you obtained your CHL. What caused such a drastic change from not even owning a handgun to almost always having one openly carried on you? I'm not attacking or critizing you. Just curious what changed.oljames3 wrote:I tend to agree as to moving out of a negative situation.Oldgringo wrote:Nope. We live in a small rural town in the Pineywoods. Should someone come unannounced to the door after dark, they will be cordially met by me with my Compact 1911 by my side.
I think we'd be long gone from any location that required me to walk around the house/yard with a gun on my person.
My view on carrying, though, is that I carry not because I am required to do so but rather because I choose to do so. I do not "need" to carry. I need to breathe. I find it prudent to carry. Since I cannot accurately guess when a violent threat may present, I use my firearm as a control to reduce risk to a manageable level for me. I am certain that others, presented with the same information, would decide differently.
We each must decide for ourselves which risks we are willing to manage and which benefits matter most to us. Y'all carry your way and I will carry mine.
Required is a pretty strong word. I always carry a sidearm on my place outside the house. Snakes, hogs, coyotes, and any other number of varmits are apt to be encountered at any moment. I don't like varmits, especially around the house. And I wouldn't choose to live anywhere that i have to worry about gunshots hitting a neighbors house, or a neighbor seeing me on the porch in the morning in less than acceptable public attire.Oldgringo wrote:Nope. We live in a small rural town in the Pineywoods. Should someone come unannounced to the door after dark, they will be cordially met by me with my Compact 1911 by my side.
I think we'd be long gone from any location that required me to walk around the house/yard with a gun on my person.
Lynyrd wrote:Required is a pretty strong word. I always carry a sidearm on my place outside the house. Snakes, hogs, coyotes, and any other number of varmits are apt to be encountered at any moment. I don't like varmits, especially around the house. And I wouldn't choose to live anywhere that i have to worry about gunshots hitting a neighbors house, or a neighbor seeing me on the porch in the morning in less than acceptable public attire.Oldgringo wrote:Nope. We live in a small rural town in the Pineywoods. Should someone come unannounced to the door after dark, they will be cordially met by me with my Compact 1911 by my side.
I think we'd be long gone from any location that required me to walk around the house/yard with a gun on my person.
I understand people not wanting to be armed in their own home. Different strokes for different folks and all that. I'm not criticizing anyone for carrying in their home, or not carrying in their home. I just wanted to find out how many other like minded people there were out there.
That's the kind of thing I was looking for. A good dog which doesn't know how to make nice with strangers is a great addition to a household's night time security features. I have such a dog myself.....a boxer/lab mix, not a blue heeler....but he barks when a flea farts down the block during the day time. I don't imagine that anyone will be able to enter my house at night - either by stealth or by force - without eliciting a noisy and aggressive response from him. And that response is what gives me the time to acquire either a handgun or shotgun next to the bed.jed wrote:While I'm not Lynyrd and you didn't ask me, I will tell you what I do. At night I have a fairly obnoxious blue heeler with alpha issues with people she doesn't know sleeping beside the bed. Any sound not normal in or outside of our house at night, she goes ape-poop. She will wake me with plenty of time to reach for any one of many firearm options.
Sorry, I reckon I should have used 'any metropolitan area' instead of 'location' in that above sentence. Quadruped yard varmints don't overly concern me, it's the biped variety that I keep a look out for. Around here, folk pretty much know which folk not to mess with.Lynyrd wrote:Required is a pretty strong word. I always carry a sidearm on my place outside the house. Snakes, hogs, coyotes, and any other number of varmits are apt to be encountered at any moment. I don't like varmits, especially around the house. And I wouldn't choose to live anywhere that i have to worry about gunshots hitting a neighbors house, or a neighbor seeing me on the porch in the morning in less than acceptable public attire.Oldgringo wrote:Nope. We live in a small rural town in the Pineywoods. Should someone come unannounced to the door after dark, they will be cordially met by me with my Compact 1911 by my side.
I think we'd be long gone from any location that required me to walk around the house/yard with a gun on my person.
I understand people not wanting to be armed in their own home. Different strokes for different folks and all that. I'm not criticizing anyone for carrying in their home, or not carrying in their home. I just wanted to find out how many other like minded people there were out there.
Sir, you did not offend ME in the slightest!The Annoyed Man wrote:That's why I never intended the questions to come off as condescending or intrusive. I am by nature a very introspective person.....not in an antisocial way, but rather in the sense that I spend a lot of time examining my own motives about almost anything, and it is often helpful to me to know how others answer these kinds of questions as a backboard against which to judge my own motives. A LOT of the time, when I ask questions that appear on their surface to be rhetorical during discussions like this one, I am actually engaged in this process of self examination. So apologies to all who were offended by my line of questioning.jed wrote:While I'm not Lynyrd and you didn't ask me, I will tell you what I do. At night I have a fairly obnoxious blue heeler with alpha issues with people she doesn't know sleeping beside the bed. Any sound not normal in or outside of our house at night, she goes ape-poop. She will wake me with plenty of time to reach for any one of many firearm options.
No apology needed.Oldgringo wrote:Sorry, I reckon I should have used 'any metropolitan area' instead of 'location' in that above sentence. Quadruped yard varmints don't overly concern me, it's the biped variety that I keep a look out for. Around here, folk pretty much know which folk not to mess with.Lynyrd wrote:Required is a pretty strong word. I always carry a sidearm on my place outside the house. Snakes, hogs, coyotes, and any other number of varmits are apt to be encountered at any moment. I don't like varmits, especially around the house. And I wouldn't choose to live anywhere that i have to worry about gunshots hitting a neighbors house, or a neighbor seeing me on the porch in the morning in less than acceptable public attire.Oldgringo wrote:Nope. We live in a small rural town in the Pineywoods. Should someone come unannounced to the door after dark, they will be cordially met by me with my Compact 1911 by my side.
I think we'd be long gone from any location that required me to walk around the house/yard with a gun on my person.
I understand people not wanting to be armed in their own home. Different strokes for different folks and all that. I'm not criticizing anyone for carrying in their home, or not carrying in their home. I just wanted to find out how many other like minded people there were out there.
i have a large yard the dog stays in during the day. She's only in the house when we are there. We are home every night so being gone days at a time does not happen. I can understand not having a dog if one has to travel with work.Lynyrd wrote:Sir, you did not offend ME in the slightest!The Annoyed Man wrote:That's why I never intended the questions to come off as condescending or intrusive. I am by nature a very introspective person.....not in an antisocial way, but rather in the sense that I spend a lot of time examining my own motives about almost anything, and it is often helpful to me to know how others answer these kinds of questions as a backboard against which to judge my own motives. A LOT of the time, when I ask questions that appear on their surface to be rhetorical during discussions like this one, I am actually engaged in this process of self examination. So apologies to all who were offended by my line of questioning.jed wrote:While I'm not Lynyrd and you didn't ask me, I will tell you what I do. At night I have a fairly obnoxious blue heeler with alpha issues with people she doesn't know sleeping beside the bed. Any sound not normal in or outside of our house at night, she goes ape-poop. She will wake me with plenty of time to reach for any one of many firearm options.
As for the dog, that luxury it is not an option for me. Not being retired yet, I spend way too much time away from the place to treat a good dog the way I would want them to be treated. When I retire, and slow down some more, I definitely see a couple of dogs on my wish list. Makes sense that my habits will then adapt to that situation.