When I'm out in the middle of nowhere, I'm generally carrying what I've got on my back and schlepping it for miles. I'm going to evaluate everything I carry in terms of what it weighs and how much space it takes up as compared to the value it will provide. A gun weighs too much, takes up too much space, and has far too low a probability of usefulness.
You can wear 3 sombreros on your head every day if you like, it doesn't matter to me (as long as you're not sitting in front of me in the movie theater). If the topic comes up, and you begin to espouse the wonders of the three sombrero system, I might, in conversation, challenge some of your rationale, but if you want to be wacky, and the costs of that wackiness are borne entirely by you, that's little more than a source of amusement to me, and I wouldn't do anything to try to eliminate a source of amusement.
Right, there are no guarantees.
I don't think anyone here is arguing about gun rights, and they shouldn't because this is not the SZ. People are merely expressing their personal preferences about carrying. There is another thread in the SZ about this topic.
I agree. I am pretty casual about my sun screen use. I tend to end up with a tan at the end of the summer. I know that I should use sun screen, and I do if I remember, but a lot of time I forget. The first thing to burn each year is my bald head. I have had a few spots burned off me for that reason. However, I just read the other day that exposure to sun has been shown to decrease pancreatic cancer. Who would have thought that?
And all that has been said on this topic of risk and reward and probabilities and possibilities and the unknowability of the outcome of a specific event, does it accurately describe the mindset you'd take into a casino?
There aren't that many places around here where it is not allowed. The places it isn't allowed I already know about and I do not do business with them. If I absolutely have no choice and will be going to one of those places I simply don't take the gun.
+1. I've never had someone notice I'm carrying. It's really not as difficult to carry a pistol as some people tend to think it is.
I'm not sure what guns you've seen. But they can pack a lot of punch in a reasonably small package these days. I can carry a Springfield XD .40S&W with 10 rounds in an inside the pants holster all day and it won't bother me the slightest. It's not that heavy or awkward or uncomfortable.
I guess you won't be doing business with us then...
I guess you won't be doing business with us then...
I wonder how many other companies have in their employee manual that it is a gun-free workplace. I would bet quite a few, not that many people read the employee manual.
Of course, and I'm talking about tendencies.
I don't think charter companies have suffered from too many armed attacks.
I am pretty sure my checking account prohibits the chance of doing business with you.
And the policy will do absolutely *NOTHING* to stop that disgruntled employee other than assure them that there will be no one capable of defending themselves at the location.
There is not a no-carry sign. It's just that employees can't carry inside the office.
I never said it would. I'm just saying that in my view there really isn't much danger that the people in the building are unarmed.
It's an FAR that you can't carry on a 135 flight unless you are a LEO or a crewmember with the approval of the certificate holder. You can have a gun but it needs to be unloaded and in a case with the ammunition stored separately.
Understand. Everyone else can then.
Makes sense. Is that expressed to clients?
Yes, other than that I can't get into security procedures on the internet.
I would imagine that, like any group, the most memorable are the most idiotic. You won't see the person who takes the time to do things right, train themselves and only pull their weapon when it is a real threat to life moment. Instead you will see the soldier of fortune wannabe who pulls his gun when a guy gets snippy in traffic and yells at the the gun owner. Then Rambo reveals himself to be a moron and everyone takes notice.
I think there are people who think that guns make them cool, like Rambo or other mythical shoot 'em up heroes.
Is there a difference?
Without getting into any single specific instance, I'll note that we see many of these anecdotes, and I'll also note that they tend to be expressed in terms of "had to" and "if not for..." and "otherwise I'd be..." and such. I might be inclined to say the same thing about my dremel tool: "why, if I hadn't had that, then ...", but often the honest answer is "... I'd have done it some other way".
