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wharvey wrote: Everyone who carries 24/7 isn't paranoid. That IS a term often used by anti-gun folks with regard to those who carry a handgun for personal protection. As I said in an earlier post, to each his own. You asked if we agreed and it is obvious that most of us who are posting don't.

wharvey wrote: I do respect your decision based on your feelings with regard to your training, or lack there of. Nothing wrong with that. Years ago my father had to drive through some of the worse areas of Houston. I loaned him a pistol to keep in his glove box. This was long before carry was legal but still, few in their right mind would have gone in those places if they didn't need to. A few weeks later he gave it back saying he didn't trust his himself not to get mad and use it. Doubt he would have but he got no argument on from me.

wharvey wrote: I do have to ask, why on earth are you carrying a handgun when you are going hog hunting? The AK should handle anything much better than any handgun. If it is for back up to the rifle the caliber and ammo would be marginal at best, against hogs at any rate.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

mitchntx wrote:

Oldgringo wrote: Yes, I will renew when the time comes. Mrs. Oldgringo...probably not.

We will run parallel courses ...

johnson0317 wrote:You only get on chance at getting this right.

RJ

And probably once at getting it wrong, as well.

Until I read this, I was thinking, "to each, his own," and willing to stay out of the conversation. But that is the crux of the matter.

For reasons having to do with my religious faith, I am not afraid of death. But also for reasons of my religious faith, I want to live out as many days as are to be my portion—according to God's will, and not the will of some punk with a meth addiction. My prayer is that this includes getting to watch my grand kids grow up. In the meantime, I feel like I have a responsibility to my loved ones to come home alive every day. If carrying a gun ups those odds a bit, then I'm in favor of it. And like you, I tend to live a risk-averse life, so it's not that I am regularly exposed to an elevated threat level. But the truth is that, sometimes, we don't have to go looking for trouble. It will come seek us, uninvited.

Then there is the aspect of the political statement. I carry because I can, and the reason this fundamental human right is viewed as anachronistic by so many leftists is that they don't practice it themselves. The right not exercised falls by the wayside. Even though I have to jump through the statist hoops of the state to do so "legally" (CHL doesn't make carrying a gun legal, it gives you a defense to prosecution....an important distinction.....), I do that willingly if that is the reality of what it takes to exercise a right that should be free and unrestricted. I would like to see constitutional carry passed in Texas.

By not carrying all the time, you're actually in the majority of CHL holders. Most don't carry 24/7. I'm guessing that the active members of this board are more likely to do so than not, because we are by definition probably more interested in the subject than most other CHL holders. In that regard, we might actually represent a statistical anomaly, and thus you are probably more likely to get answers in this thread which disagree with your premise than you would get if you polled all CHL holders at large.

For my own part, I will not only definitely renew, but it is my plan (finances and time permitting) to obtain my instructor's license in 2012. My wife also carries daily by the way. Pretty much the only time she doesn't carry is in church.......not because of any particular philosophical or religious objection. She is part of the child-care ministry, and she is not comfortable having her gun on her or in her purse with a dozen 18 month to 24 month old crumb-grinders climbing all over her and everything else. So she leaves her gun in the car, and that means that she is unarmed during both the first service when she volunteers, and the second service when she worships..........but I am not unarmed. I carry on stage as part of the worship team. I used to be the only one who did in our worship band, but I know of at least 3 others who are in the process of getting their own CHLs. My wife's plan is to renew when it comes up. And by the way, one of the reasons she carries all the rest of the time is because her gun is the one thing that makes her the physical equal of any male assailant.

johnson0317 wrote:

mitchntx wrote:

johnson0317 wrote:You only get on chance at getting this right.

RJ

And probably once at getting it wrong, as well.

I believe that is precisely my point.

RJ

Oldgringo wrote: Yes, I will renew when the time comes. Mrs. Oldgringo...probably not.

johnson0317 wrote:You only get on chance at getting this right.

RJ

10Shooter wrote:MVDV ?

Skiprr wrote:

mitchntx wrote:...With so many 30.06 signs hanging around here, I'm walking parking lots without the gun any way.

Just wondering: If you're in a predominantly rural area, where are you seeing all the 30.06 postings?

Zylo_X wrote: I'm not trying to give you a hard time, but did you have a specific reason for getting the CHL??

A-R wrote:The simple answer to the OP's inquiry is this spot-on quote:

"Carry 24/7 ... or guess right"

Simple as that. To each their own ... YMMV ... etc.

YMMV

Zylo_X wrote:You don't seem to realize its a commitment and a huge responsibility. Many of the problems in this country today are based in the assumption of a Right, without the weight of Responsibility. Where might that lead us?? I'm just sayin' ...

Perhaps you'd be better off NOT carrying, until you need it.