I don't carry if I'm running to get drive through .
When's the last time you got robbed by the guy giving you a milkshake at 1am
Ben, seriously?
Did you seriously just post this? In a forum with fellow gun owners/carriers??
I carry everywhere, every time. Never ever ever leave my home without my weapon.
ANY scenario can happen at ANY time. THIS IS WHY WE CARRY GUNS.
You think there's never been an incident where a driver at a drive through was set upon by gun wielding thugs and, at gunpoint, forced to hand over the cash, the car, the car with the kids, the wife, etc.
Almost always my G26 on me, but, if "just around the corner for the paper" or down the street for at 1am milkshake, at minimum - MINIMUM - wherever I go, my SW 442 in my pocket. I carry the damn thing to the dumpster at the end of the condo complex where I live. I carry it in my sweatpants for morning walk/jog. I carry carry CARRY literally always, EVERYWHERE.
Why? Paranoid? Nope.
But I think I've heard once or twice that it's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
You're in Tewksbury, Ben. I was in nearby Dracut several years. Dracut is a very quiet town, even more so than Tewksbury!. And not once, in all the time I lived there, nor at anytime since I first received my LTC many years ago, was I ever unarmed. 1am, 1pm, milkshake or milk duds. Never.
I carry, because I am a gun owner. Why own a gun if you don't always carry it?
You go to Dairy Queen unarmed if you want.
I'm SW442, +p hollow points. And I'm guessing a larger percentage of gun owners feel the way I do. Amy Lord walked to the gym at 6am on a beautiful day in South Boston. Cuz she probably thought "nobody is gonna bother me". Also, suppose, on your way home, you get broadsided by a sh*tbox car with two deranged, meth-infused junkies looking to score another rock. They're FURIOUS that you had the audacity to be sitting at that stop sign or red light... they jump out and, in their drugged-out haze/rage,simply begin attacking you.
Just because.
And for no other good reason than just because.
I promise you, "Stab the muthaf*cka" will never be the last thing I will hear prior to leaving this earth.
But the last thing Meth-Head #1 or #2 will hear prior to attempting to plunge the knife into me will be...."BANG".
By the way, how's that milkshake taste?