Boondocking safety-Are you armed?

memtb wrote:

toedtoes wrote:

beemerphile1 wrote:

toedtoes wrote:


No one has said you can't have a gun. Just some folks don't see the need to carry one everywhere they go.

Unfortunately if you carry but don't carry everywhere and all the time, odds are when you need it you won't have it.

And that's the crux of the conversation. Some folks believe that they will need the gun at some point. Others don't. Until there is an actual calculation of the odds that having a gun will protect you, then it's all just supposition.

It really surprises me that they've calculated the odds of winning the lottery, being struck by lightning, and so on, but they have never calculated the odds of needing a gun to protect yourself. (Actually let me rephrase that - they've never calculated the odds that having a gun would have made a positive outcome in any situation.)

Personally, I see the odds of my needing a gun to be well below 1:1000000000. Others see it more like 1:500. Guess we'll know when we die who was right.

I guess then... I've already won the lottery! Though... winning this lottery is not a pleasant experience. But....living through the experience by giving someone else the opportunity of spending a little more more time with friends and family,makes me glad that I had insurance!

Well, you're the first person I've been acquainted with who has said a gun made a positive difference to a situation. I've never been acquainted with someone who has won the lottery either. Again, it falls down to the odds and how you feel about them. In the end, it's do what you're comfortable with and respect others. I never insisted my dad to remove the guns from his house when I visited - likewise he never insisted on bringing a gun into my house. We respected each other in that. My sibling, on the other hand, insisted that her right to carry a gun overrode my right not to have a gun in my house...