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braindead0
Jun 21, 2016Explorer
IMO these kind of topics tend to devolve into politics/posturing and fear mongering. People have very different views as far as risk tolerance, threat assessment and desire to defend themselves. As well as skewed perceptions of firearms in general due to the media. None of these can be changed via argument, they have to be changed vie long term experience and training. This is why I believe it's entirely pointless to argue about.
Personally I carry whatever tools I deem necessary to protect myself and my family.
Here in the desert there are tons of relatively unknown ghost towns, we like to explore them. When you get there you often find signs of meth cooking, vandalism, drug paraphernalia, etc. When you choose to explore areas like this you cannot assess the threats very well until you are on the scene and can get an idea of how active the site is and even then you may have no idea.
There are also a lot of characters defending claims (legal or otherwise), if they aren't posted or you do not know what you're looking for you may be wandering around on someones claim. Most of the time this isn't an issue, the odds of the claimer being on site are minimal however there are valuable deposits in some areas and these folks tend to camp/work them in the summer.
For both of those fairly unlikely threats, I carry a revolver. I have been well trained and am confident I can use that to defend us from immediate threats, lightweight and hardly know it's there. Same thing I carry every day.
Our biggest non-human threats here are rattlesnakes and mountain lions. Both of those are pretty easy to avoid, and not nearly as common as the 2 legged nutjob.
That's my opinion on the subject.
Personally I carry whatever tools I deem necessary to protect myself and my family.
Here in the desert there are tons of relatively unknown ghost towns, we like to explore them. When you get there you often find signs of meth cooking, vandalism, drug paraphernalia, etc. When you choose to explore areas like this you cannot assess the threats very well until you are on the scene and can get an idea of how active the site is and even then you may have no idea.
There are also a lot of characters defending claims (legal or otherwise), if they aren't posted or you do not know what you're looking for you may be wandering around on someones claim. Most of the time this isn't an issue, the odds of the claimer being on site are minimal however there are valuable deposits in some areas and these folks tend to camp/work them in the summer.
For both of those fairly unlikely threats, I carry a revolver. I have been well trained and am confident I can use that to defend us from immediate threats, lightweight and hardly know it's there. Same thing I carry every day.
Our biggest non-human threats here are rattlesnakes and mountain lions. Both of those are pretty easy to avoid, and not nearly as common as the 2 legged nutjob.
That's my opinion on the subject.
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