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Actually, I wasn't quite asking for an opinion about me.
I was just expanding the "men with a gun" topic. That's why I posted the topic......and then went off and did other things, coming back hours later to check on it.
As far as traveling. It depends on where I am going and what I'm doing. How I'm traveling is another factor. As far as a rifle, again several factors influence that decision.
To me it sounds kind of insane, even having more than one gun in there own home is weird. Having a gun in the house strictly for defending yourself is one thing, having like 10 guns in your house is overboard, but I do know some people who have a bunch of rifles and hand guns, and I do not visit those people in there house.
If you visited my house, you would not even know how many guns I have here. Or where they are. Because they are not in plain view. But I know where they are...and there are more than you think....
........To me it sounds kind of insane, even having more than one gun in there own home is weird. Having a gun in the house strictly for defending yourself is one thing, having like 10 guns in your house is overboard, but I do know some people who have a bunch of rifles and hand guns, and I do not visit those people in there house.
Well, it's one of those things of one size doesn't fit all. Take the USP for instance. It's an excellent backup or substitute for a rifle when you can't carry a rifle. Catch is, it's not that concealable unless one is wearing a field jacket. So I got a Kimber Ultra Carry. Same caliber as the USP so it didn't expand my ammo needs. But unlike its full size brothers, it's not that reliable. The last rounds tend to "tumble" at the top of the magazine and it doesn't always eject completely, resulting in "stove piping".
So my gun dealer got me a Sig Sauer P229 which is excellent as a gun one could take with them when exercising. Of course, as a 9 mm, it extended my ammo needs. But at least with an Uzi carbine, I have a common round between a pistol and a rifle.
The AR10 is a wonderful long range rifle.....and darn expensive to operate. Perhaps 80 cents a round, perhaps more. So I picked the lighter, cheaper round AR15.
Etc, etc, etc.
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Ok, I am totally confused why this is in the relationships forum??
Well, "Your significant other travels with a rifle and pistol. What's your reaction to that?"
I suppose in part that since I am in Texas, many in Texas would see it, potentially, different than in other parts of the county................but that's just a guess.
Rather interesting once on a trip or two visiting relatives. My Sis in Law responded, when I told her I was carrying a rifle, that she always expected me to carry something extra. But my nephew, her son, was surprised to find that I always travel with a rifle.
Oh, well!
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I think it would be fun for you to post this same thread in the Canadian, Australian or British threads, OP.
I mean, here in the US, you're just preaching to the choir. It's so predictable. You'll get FAR more interesting responses in the Non-US threads as to what people think of you carrying a gun/rifle everywhere you go. Take my word for it.
That's been my experience as well.
The philosophical (and 2A aspect) aside...
actually carrying when out in the world? Paranoid and/or delusional.
Paranoid about the nature/severity of the threat actually faced.
Delusional about competence needed to deal if/when something actually happened.
Oh so people should just be defenseless and hope that their number isn't picked? I find that stupid, no offense. That's like not having a fire extinguisher in your house/kitchen because the odds are good that you'll never need it. When you do need it, and don't have it, bad things are going to happen. Same with driving a safe car and wearing a seatbelt, wearing a helmet/leathers on a motorcycle... you don't expect things to go wrong but you prepare for it just in case.
It's funny that some people on here feel less safe around someone who has the ability to protect them then they do around someone who doesn't have that ability. Talk about backwards.
Well, "Your significant other travels with a rifle and pistol. What's your reaction to that?"
I suppose in part that since I am in Texas, many in Texas would see it, potentially, different than in other parts of the county................but that's just a guess.
Rather interesting once on a trip or two visiting relatives. My Sis in Law responded, when I told her I was carrying a rifle, that she always expected me to carry something extra. But my nephew, her son, was surprised to find that I always travel with a rifle.
Oh, well![/quote]
I don't believe that question was in the original post. And the family part belongs in non-romantic relationships.
This is not about relationships!
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