Do friends or people you know carry? (Savannah: rent, homes)

[pink caddy]

Carrying a gun, with a permit, is all new to me. I come from a part of the country that this is...well, not possible. One of my closest friends now carries. All legal. He showed me the permit. He carries because of a shooting incident with a family member that was killed.


The gun handle sticks out of the pocket of his jeans and it's so weird for me. A couple of weeks ago he was late for a dinner at a downtown restaurant . When I asked what happen he said his car was parked three blocks away and needed to go back and get his permit for the gun. All true... I went with him to his car three blocks away.


Anybody having similar experiences??

[gentlearts]

The way to get over your lib-fear is to go to a shooting range, like Patrick’s on 80, rent a gun and blast your way to comfortable.
It pretty fun, really.

[GA Survivor]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

The way to get over your lib-fear is to go to a shooting range, like Patrick’s on 80, rent a gun and blast your way to comfortable.
It pretty fun, really.

This is a good plan, you can rent everything. Start with a smaller caliber gun and work your way up. There are actually quite a few people with carry permits in the area. Some carry on their person ALL the time, others based on where they are going.

[pink caddy]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

The way to get over your lib-fear is to go to a shooting range, like Patrick’s on 80, rent a gun and blast your way to comfortable.
It pretty fun, really.

I am quite removed from "lib-fear" LOL. Born and raised on the streets of NYC, so that wasn't my point. My point was simply that it's just a bit "strange" having the sometime experience of my friend the gun-slinger walking down the street, and then the sentiments of the liberal north that I also live in.

[gentlearts]

I know what you mean.
All the males in my family are either hunters or military, and have guns, but nobody wears them around.
In a public place, how do we tell if someone wearing a gun is going to defend us or kill us?
But, I have always thought that stores that have a “no guns allowed “ signs on the window, might just as well say, “come on in and rob us, nobody will stop you”.

[masonbauknight]

Seriously, PC -- haven't you adjusted to all this by now? What you describe is very typical of Savannahians I know -- and most of the relatives who pick me up at Savannah-HH Airport when I visit the old homestead. Gun owners? 100%. Open carriers? not 100%, but fairly well represented.

In NYC, I have yet to meet a gun owner who wasn't a member of the NYPD. It's very, very hard to get a permit here otherwise. Much like iced tea: it's generally unsweetened north of Richmond, so New Yorkers traveling south will spit their sweet tea right in their cup after one gulp: "What the ---!" The complaints I've heard.

Welcome to the South, y'all!

[gentlearts]

Originally Posted by masonbauknight

Seriously, PC -- haven't you adjusted to all this by now? What you describe is very typical of Savannahians I know -- and most of the relatives who pick me up at Savannah-HH Airport when I visit the old homestead. Gun owners? 100%. Open carriers? not 100%, but fairly well represented.

In NYC, I have yet to meet a gun owner who wasn't a member of the NYPD. It's very, very hard to get a permit here otherwise. Much like iced tea: it's generally unsweetened north of Richmond, so New Yorkers traveling south will spit their sweet tea right in their cup after one gulp: "What the ---!" The complaints I've heard.

Welcome to the South, y'all!

Haha, what is with the sugar, you people?

[SanSav]

I know folks who carry in florida and in az, and I still think its odd and a bit unnecessary. Most of these folks are really good people but pretty frightened of everything even though they've never been a victim of any serious crime. I grew up shooting, still shoot, but never really felt I had to have it with me at all times. I've been in sticky, very sticky situations growing up in los angeles when I was much much younger and I still cant see how me having a gun then or now would've helped. If anything it wouldve added to the chaos and probably got me killed.

Dunno, but I do have a healthy fear of ill trained, panic proned, fearful people with loaded weapons.

Happy thanksgiving

[gentlearts]

You know that feeling you get, if you realize that you have been driving without your seatbelt on? That, “oh my god, I could have been killed” feeling?

If I carried a gun, then I wouldn’t be able to be without it without feeling naked. I’d walk around with a feeling of impending disaster all the time.

Really, in how many instances would someone have the time to pull their gun, and shoot someone who pulled a gun on them? Hardly ever.

[pink caddy]

^^^^If the handle is sticking out the right hand pocket of his jeans, as my friend's was, he can get that out faster than the I -phone in the other pocket.