I was surprised by how many gun people that I work around. One I know has a CHL, another I know was thinking about getting one, but hasn't yet. One shoots skeet competitions. Another has a wife that is thinking about getting a CHL, and I think he may be considering it as well.Hoi Polloi wrote:It depends on your profession. It looks like computer and engineer types are more likely to be CHL holders who post on this forum and vote in some woman's poll than any other types.jackal858 wrote:Mmmm... this logic only works for some people though. I mean, 99% of people I encounter on a daily basis are either people I work with (of whom I have no clue if any of them have a CHL or not) or strangers at public venues. I am not necessarily "like" my co-workers in regard to ideals on gun laws or carrying laws as they are just my co-workers. I guess if I was retired (I wish) and only hung out with guys at the gun club, then obviously my chances of being around a CHL would be much higher. I don't think your logic applies to most people in their daily lives though.Hoi Polloi wrote:Although, according to my poll in the off-topic forum (which is completely unscientific), it looks like there are certain groups of people who are more likely to have CHLs so that if you have one, the people you come into contact with (those being people like you) are generally more likely to be carrying than the average person.I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case in real life, too. I'll go ask in the poll thread if it is the anecdotal experience of computer and engineer types if others in their professions express CHL status at a greater than 1.5% rate.
Guns and/or CHLs seem to come up in conversation all the time and I'm never the one that brings it up.
I don't know if it's just the part of Texas I work in, or if it's just software developers in general. A large percentage(~25%) of the software developers that I work around either have CHLs or are otherwise gun friendly. I haven't heard the others say one way or the other. I've also never heard any kind of anti-gun comments from anyone at work ever. Although, this one guy has Obama paraphernalia on or about his desk.
I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of people carrying at my workplace was above state average, especially considering that there are no policies regarding weapons at all that I could find in the employee handbook or website, and I looked many times. I even overheard a partial conversation about guns from the inventory control department(or maybe it was the credit department?) while walking back to my desk.
Even with the heavily gun friendly environment, I'm still cautious about what I discuss. Sometimes I feel like I could just tell everyone there that I carry a gun and no one would care, of course I don't tell though.