If you carry a gun, do you carry it when you go to . . .

[melensdad]

Do you carry to church . . .

Do you carry to the homes of your relatives . . .

Do you carry to the . . .

If you are going from your house to church/temple and then coming straight back home will you carry your gun? If you are going from your house to church/temple and then are going out to eat afterwards with other members of your congregation and then coming home do you carry your gun?

How about to the family picnic at your relative's farm/home? Or to Thanksgiving dinner with the family when you are going your mom's/brother's/uncle's house and spending the day there and then coming back home?

I guess, my question is do you ALWAYS carry or do carry 90% of the time and then not carry under some fairly common circumstances? Obviously you can't carry into a police station, your child's school, or into the town courthouse, but I'm talking about places where you CAN LEGALLY carry but you, for some reason choose not to carry.

What do you do?

[AFA1CY]

I carry everywhere except work and where it is illegal to do so.

[Ford Truck]

Originally Posted by AFA1CY

I carry everywhere except work and where it is illegal to do so.

+1

I work in Ohio and my place of employment is a Criminal Protection Zone.

[PM66]

The only place I don't carry is OTJ. I could get sent to Cook Nuclear Plant, and that would be a problem! Plus, there's something in the employee handbook about weapons being forbidden at work.

[sjstill]

What Rich said.

Now that I have that funky star in my pocket, I worry less about where I carry. Not that I worried much before. I still find myself concealing just as much off-duty, even though I clip my badge to my belt.

Unlike some of my classmates, I didn't go out and buy "SHERIFF" t-shirts or other cop stuff. I don't want to be readily Id's as a cop off-duty unless *I* want to be.

I guess the short version is; Concealed means concealed.

[rhino]

Originally Posted by sjstill

Unlike some of my classmates, I didn't go out and buy "SHERIFF" t-shirts or other cop stuff. I don't want to be readily Id's as a cop off-duty unless *I* want to be.

Some badges are really, really heavy Steve. Apparently you got a lightweight version.

[45acp]

I have a question if you were to see someone wearing a Police NYPD T-shirt what would be your first impression. I have one and everytime I wear it I get some crazy looks, I would appreciate your opinion.

[minuteman32]

Originally Posted by 45acp

I have a question if you were to see someone wearing a Police NYPD T-shirt what would be your first impression. I have one and everytime I wear it I get some crazy looks, I would appreciate your opinion.

I usually figure that they either are showing their support post 9/11, like oneof the numerous tv shows set in NYC,were a tourist to NYC @some point, or that was the shirt they grabbed before going out. That is, if I even give it any thought @ all.

[dburkhead]

One of the things that some people talk about is carrying based on the likelihood of something happening. Well, in another thread on this board I did some analysis based on the actual government figures on violent crime (cites for the information provided in that thread). Upshot was that in a given year an average person had at least a one in 200 chance of being a victim of a violent crime ("at least" because the numbers were for crimes committed and did not include crimes averted and I assumed only one victim per crime so the number would actually strictly greater than that).

Now, put that on a smaller footing. There are 8760 hours in a year (not counting leap years). A 0.5% chance per year translates into a bit more than a "1 in a million" chance (1.7476... in a million, actually) of something happening in any given hour. Many people look at that and come to the conclusion that it's not worthwhile to carry. Actually, it says the exact opposite. When the average possibility is that low, the difference between "likely" and "unlikely" is likewise very low. If you only carry when you "think you might need it" the chance that that is when something bad will go down is that "one in a million." But those little probabilities add up. The only way to be confident that you will have the weapon with you in the event that you need it (and that 1 in 200 chance per year came to a chance of something like a 3 out of 4 chance over a lifetime) to avoid becoming a victim of a violent crime is if you have it all the time. The difference between "likely" and "unlikely" is just not that much. The world is full of crime victims that didn't think they needed a weapon at that time and place.

I'm pretty sure many of the people on the LIRR train didn't think they needed to be armed beforehand, ditto the people at Luby's Cafeteria, Columbine, Virginia Tech, and many other placed.

[pmpmstrb]

I carry everywhere. Thanksgiving, family get togethers, everywhere. Hell my brother was carrying at my wedding. I would've but I had too many things going on.