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anygunanywhere wrote:

Jumping Frog wrote:

mayor wrote:I have a question: How do CHL holders communicate with each other that "I'm not a BG?"

Ahh, . . . . , don't wear a burka?

You didn't tell him about the CHL badge, tiara, and sash.

Anygunanywhere

No need for the badge, tiara, or sash. Just wear this:

Keith B wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote: Playing the odds is nothing more than applying the "other guy syndrome" to a different subject. Statistics don't mean anything when you are the one hit by lightening, robbed at gunpoint, or miss the lottery by one number.

Chas.

I use the odds to say it more than likely won't happen to me, so I am not going to let the threat scare me away from going to a mall or the movies. HOWEVER, lightning CAN strike at any time, and I have previously been the victim of the damage, so I make sure to be properly grounded as to negate the potential of getting hit or killed. This is my analogy for making sure if I go to a mall, movie theater, church or anywhere else public I take my grounding rod (aka my CCW) to be ready to defend myself and my family.

Exactly this

While it's great to say I'll avoid these places, I have a family, and we live in Houston, and we cannot stay holed up in my home all the time. They deserve better than that, and so do I. Sure, I hate the malls, but if I need to go, I'll go. For instance, every year, my daughter and I have a tradition of going to the local mall and getting her photo with Santa Claus. I cannot stand the line, and the idiocy of the mall during the season, but as long as my little girl still has that innocence, I'm going to soak it up for as long as I can. We've only been to Disney once, but we'll go again. Again, I hate the lines, and the price is a bit high, but as long as she still believes in magic (and that really was Snow White she just saw), I'll do it again and again.

If the threat of terror causes us to retreat to our safe zones too much, then the terrorists have won. I travel internationally for work to places sketchier than the worst parts of Houston and to places safer than the best parts of rural Texas. My wife owns her own business with walk-in traffic, and she cannot avoid going there.

For me, I always go prepared, my wife always goes prepared, and we maintain situational awareness. No, we don't go wandering around with our 6-year old during the Mardi Gras parade, and we don't go to IHOP in Houston at 3am, and we don't wander around aimlessly in the bad parts of town. But we do go out and about as we wish, and will continue to do so. The only thing we've done to compensate is switch from going to the biggest Catholic church near our house (Six Flags over the Vatican) to a much smaller one a wee bit further away. We prefer the smaller community feeling anyway, and figure it's a nice risk prevention.

Tic Tac wrote:A society that decides to license and tax my RKBA is unworthy of those arms in its defense.

Ooooh...I'm going to have to borrow that one.