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Oldgringo wrote:

Lynyrd wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:Nope. We live in a small rural town in the Pineywoods. Should someone come unannounced to the door after dark, they will be cordially met by me with my Compact 1911 by my side.

I think we'd be long gone from any location that required me to walk around the house/yard with a gun on my person.

Required is a pretty strong word. I always carry a sidearm on my place outside the house. Snakes, hogs, coyotes, and any other number of varmits are apt to be encountered at any moment. I don't like varmits, especially around the house. And I wouldn't choose to live anywhere that i have to worry about gunshots hitting a neighbors house, or a neighbor seeing me on the porch in the morning in less than acceptable public attire.

I understand people not wanting to be armed in their own home. Different strokes for different folks and all that. I'm not criticizing anyone for carrying in their home, or not carrying in their home. I just wanted to find out how many other like minded people there were out there.

Sorry, I reckon I should have used 'any metropolitan area' instead of 'location' in that above sentence. Quadruped yard varmints don't overly concern me, it's the biped variety that I keep a look out for. Around here, folk pretty much know which folk not to mess with.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

jed wrote:While I'm not Lynyrd and you didn't ask me, I will tell you what I do. At night I have a fairly obnoxious blue heeler with alpha issues with people she doesn't know sleeping beside the bed. Any sound not normal in or outside of our house at night, she goes ape-poop. She will wake me with plenty of time to reach for any one of many firearm options.

That's why I never intended the questions to come off as condescending or intrusive. I am by nature a very introspective person.....not in an antisocial way, but rather in the sense that I spend a lot of time examining my own motives about almost anything, and it is often helpful to me to know how others answer these kinds of questions as a backboard against which to judge my own motives. A LOT of the time, when I ask questions that appear on their surface to be rhetorical during discussions like this one, I am actually engaged in this process of self examination. So apologies to all who were offended by my line of questioning.

Oldgringo wrote:Nope. We live in a small rural town in the Pineywoods. Should someone come unannounced to the door after dark, they will be cordially met by me with my Compact 1911 by my side.

I think we'd be long gone from any location that required me to walk around the house/yard with a gun on my person.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Lynyrd wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote: My caveat, of course is that I live in a very quiet, low-crime suburban neighborhood. Perhaps if I lived out in the country, I might feel different about it.

I live out in the country. My house is 1/4 mile back in the trees off of a black top road, and I'm 30 miles from the nearest LEO response (unless a deputy is nearby on patrol). Me and my neighbors are pretty self reliant. We have to be. Generator for the house/water well, clear the roads when need be, etc., etc. If somebody comes to my place without me knowing they are coming, it's probably someone I don't want there.

If I lived in similar circumstances, I would probably feel exactly the same way. But I have the admitted luxury under my current circumstances to not have to live that way. OTH, and I've posted this several times, my plan is to buy a large piece of rural property in the next 5 years or so, and so my situation may well change; and if it does change, then I'll adapt to to it.

I'm not criticizing those who carry in the home at all times. I'm just seeking to understand why they feel the need. So Lynyrd, what do you do when you're asleep?

The Annoyed Man wrote: My caveat, of course is that I live in a very quiet, low-crime suburban neighborhood. Perhaps if I lived out in the country, I might feel different about it.

The Annoyed Man wrote:It depends..... If I'm heading out in the near future, or if I've been out and will be leaving again soon, then I'm carrying. If I'm home for the rest of the day, then I'm not carrying, but I have at least a pistol close at hand, and/or a shotgun, depending on where I am in the house.

aaangel wrote:100% of home invasion happens at home. So yes i carry at home.

How about when you are asleep in bed?

At least some home invasions happen to people who are asleep in bed. If you don't wear a holster and pistol when you're asleep, why not? Could it be that you think you can reasonably get to your firearm in time if you wake up to the sound of someone kicking down your door? If you think that, then why do you think you can't if you are awake?

You see where I'm going with this? I am sincerely NOT mocking you, but I am pointing out an inconsistency that is apparent to me regarding people who say that they carry 100% of the time in the home. Most who say that actually don't carry 100% of the time. They don't carry in the shower or bathtub. They don't carry while asleep. They don't carry while enjoying "personal time" with their significant others. At some point everybody makes the decision to set aside the gun, but keeping it close at hand where it can be quickly re-acquired if necessary. In other words, they do the calculus and come to the conclusion that, for the period of time that they set the gun aside, the exposure to additional risk is actually fairly minimal, and they are comfortable with that risk exposure.

So, if they are comfortable with that risk exposure during times when they are arguably the most vulnerable (i.e. asleep, naked in the shower/tub, in the midst of an intimate moment, etc), then why do they feel that the risk is NOT acceptable when they are the least vulnerable?

That is an inescapable point of logic that I can't let go of, and that is why I am comfortable not carrying, but having a firearm close at hand when I am home, indoors.

Teamless wrote:I carry at home about 90% of the time.
When I do not have a gun physically on me, there are a few usually within 10 seconds of my hands

Scott in Houston wrote:I do for one very important reason.