Threat Management - Constant Carry
If you have reached the point where you have decided to carry a gun to protect yourself, then you may run across various opinions about when one person or another will actually carry his or her gun with them. One may say that you'd carry a gun when going somewhere that you think you would need it, or might need it, or some other line of garbage. If you were going somewhere that you honestly thought you would need a gun, then just don't go there at all. Why put yourself in a position of suspected high risk?
Those who come home and then unload their firearm and lock it up must be living in a bunker, since they now have no means of defending themselves from multiple attackers in the home. A decision not to carry on a certain day or evening due to clothing constraints (the gun can't be concealed)? Get different clothing or smaller guns.
There is always some way to keep a firearm on your person or at least within reach. For example, if I am at my friend's home enjoying her swimming pool, my Glock pistol is shoved down inside my cooler - no, ice won't hurt it - so at least it is close by. I would never expect to encounter a problem there, but if I thought I could predict where I would need a firearm, then I'd not be writing this, I'd instead be buying winning lottery tickets. There is just no way to know when you will need a gun, but if you don't have access to one, then it doesn't matter how many you own, at the moment you are facing a threat, you are one gun short of what you need.
Once you've picked out "your" primary carry gun ("your" meaning it's your choice alone as to what type of gun you choose to rely on), work through a way to have it with you all the time that you are awake - and nearby when you are asleep. The rather odd thing about a gun is that when you have it with you, it seems it's very rarely needed. But, when you don't have one, you will suddenly need it badly. Decide to have your gun with you and hopefully, you'll never need it.
Those who come home and then unload their firearm and lock it up must be living in a bunker, since they now have no means of defending themselves from multiple attackers in the home. A decision not to carry on a certain day or evening due to clothing constraints (the gun can't be concealed)? Get different clothing or smaller guns.
There is always some way to keep a firearm on your person or at least within reach. For example, if I am at my friend's home enjoying her swimming pool, my Glock pistol is shoved down inside my cooler - no, ice won't hurt it - so at least it is close by. I would never expect to encounter a problem there, but if I thought I could predict where I would need a firearm, then I'd not be writing this, I'd instead be buying winning lottery tickets. There is just no way to know when you will need a gun, but if you don't have access to one, then it doesn't matter how many you own, at the moment you are facing a threat, you are one gun short of what you need.
Once you've picked out "your" primary carry gun ("your" meaning it's your choice alone as to what type of gun you choose to rely on), work through a way to have it with you all the time that you are awake - and nearby when you are asleep. The rather odd thing about a gun is that when you have it with you, it seems it's very rarely needed. But, when you don't have one, you will suddenly need it badly. Decide to have your gun with you and hopefully, you'll never need it.
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