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Cobra Medic wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:And then there are others (which probably describes 99% of the active membership of this board), who simply won't leave home without a gun... ...and they frequently carry at home too.

I'd like to see the support for your claim.

Looking at the number of posts from people saying they can't carry at work or school, those people aren't doing anything they couldn't do without a CHL since MPA passed.

Then there are people who complain they can't car carry during their commute to work because of parking lot restrictions.

OK, so it's 75%, and not 99%. It is still a very much larger percentage than "very low." And, there are, what, 6,000+ members here? Despite the number of threads in which members complain about not being able to carry at work, it still seems in my perception to be a minority of the total membership.

But whether it is 99%, 75%, or 50%, my basic point remains. Given that a some people carry all the time, and others carry a lot of the time, and others carry some of the time, and others carry occasionally, and others carry once in a great while, I don't know where a claim that almost nobody who has a CHL actually carries comes from.

I could be wrong, but it just doesn't make sense to me. But like I said, I could be wrong. Lots of things make no sense to me.

I'd like to see the support made for that claim. The author is framing it in black and white terms, and that isn't anywhere near the truth.

There are certainly some people who have a CHL and never carry a gun. They got it "just in case there's a need to carry a gun; I just don't need to carry one."

There are certainly others who have a CHL, who rarely, if ever, carry a gun.

There are certainly others who have a CHL, who occasionally carry a gun.

There are certainly others who have a CHL, who frequently, but not always carry a gun.

And then there are others (which probably describes 99% of the active membership of this board), who simply won't leave home without a gun... ...and they frequently carry at home too.

So I don't know how the reporter arrives at his claim... ...unless... ...he is referring solely to those CHL holders who are visiting the Capitol regularly for legislative/business reasons. In that case, then it is certainly possible that the number of people who obtained one simply for the purposes of using the CHL line outnumbers those CHL holding citizens who are visiting as tourists.