traveling with firearms
okay so i am going fulltiming may 1st . plan on wintering in texas next winter . so most of my travels this season will be out west ,,,as much as i can see . my question is about firearms . does anyon...
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BurbMan wrote:mowermech wrote:
"BTW I own and use and am very proficient with firearms. I am just not coward enough to carry one. I have that right as a retired Police Officer."
Are we to assume, then, that as an active police officer who carried a pistol when on duty, you WERE a coward? If anybody who carries a gun is a coward, then you must have been back then.
It pays to THINK about what you have just typed before hitting the "Post Message" button! In other words, say what you mean, and mean what you say!
That's just assinine...He carried a gun because it was his JOB to find and disarm criminals....that's not his JOB anymore...therefore he doesn't need to carry a gun, he is confident in his abilities to protect himself and his family without needing to carry a gun. As many of us are.
Virtually all of my friends that are retired law enforcement DO NOT carry concealed weapons. Most seem to learn in their careers that more injuries and deaths (including increased successful suicide) come to those that own and carry guns than those that do not. Death by accident among gun owners is much higher than the protection that they can/may offer. That being said, I do own, but don't carry a gun... ignorance I guess.
Here's some quantitative research on the topic:
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full
