My mom keeps telling me to leave my gun at home. she said if i didn't do nothing in a 211 robbery, the robber would just let me go. I quit arguing with her after a few tries. How in the world could I stand/lie still so that he would have a perfect shot? No Way! Mom said he wouldn't shoot me. Well, I guess some people just don't understand there are sub-human out there.
another time i was talking to an antigun coworker about camping about how much he loved camping. I said, when you went camping, what were you going to bring with you? without a firearm, how would expect to protect your pretty wife? he went silent for a long time.
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- Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:09 am
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Defining moments - what made you decide to carry?
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- Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:52 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Defining moments - what made you decide to carry?
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Re: Defining moments - what made you decide to carry?
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catwoman wrote:My husband was probably one of the first to get a CHL in Texas. I had no problem with that, just didn't see the need for one myself...he could take care of me, yes? In late 1995, I was returning to Pt Neches from my mother's home just the other side of Lake Charles. My eight-year-old son was with me. If you've ever driven between Sulphur and Vinton, you know there's nothing there but road. I check all mirrors regularly while driving, and when I was in the middle of nowhere, a white Ford truck right behind me flashed headlights...I kept driving...a few minutes later headlights flashed again...I know no one with a full-grown white Ford truck. I was coming up on several vehicles, decided to put some between me and the truck. When I took the Hwy 62 exit off I-10, a full-grown white Ford truck was on my back bumper. He (?) turned on to Hwy 62 and followed for 100-200 yards, then did a Uturn and headed back north. When I got home, slightly shook, I announced that I was getting a CHL, and proceeded to do so. From that day to this, no one I know has ever come up and said they were behind me in a white Ford truck that day, so I can only presume that the driver had some nefarious plan which, fortunately, did not come to pass.
- Tue Dec 25, 2007 1:31 am
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
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Re: Defining moments - what made you decide to carry?
Simple truth, yet so many out there just cannot get.
SC1903A3 wrote:My best friend works for the Irving Police. He was on my case for several years to get licensed. He believes the more good guys there are on the street with CHLs makes his job easier.
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:01 am
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Defining moments - what made you decide to carry?
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Defining moments - what made you decide to carry?
Not sure if we had similar topics before, but I find it quite enlightening. Here's my reasoning/moments behind the whole CHL thing. Nothing glamorous nor dramatic.
Hurricane Rita evacuation. First time i ever loaded my M4 in my house, then I realized that I couldn't carry - not the M4, but my handguns because I didn't have a carry permit, nor did TX allow car carry back then. Followed my wife all the way through the jam-packed traffic that moved at 1 mile/hour under 110+ heat and with all my guns locked in cases on my back seat - not a very comforting thing, but luckily things did not turn bad.
Got my CHL right after. Another reason was because I am not a citizen and i am always subject to elongated checks when illegals could have just lied on the form.
Didn't carry for a long time and only did some car carry. Then one day 4 of us went to a club which was located at the far end of a very dark and deserted parking lot, far away from all the traffic. The club was terrible - no customers, so we decided to leave. Once we got into my car, a black SUV suddenly pulled right behind me and blocked us in. I could only drive forward into the club. For a long time, the SUV just sat there with no light no movement. It's dark, silent and with nobody around us - I guess you would have been there to understand. I went to my gun stored in my console, but realized that i had left it with a gunsmith despite the fact that i had multiple guns at home. I was sweating and was fully expecting some guys to jump out and proceed to rob us. Should that happen, I decided to drive into the club. Luckily, it was a carload of some girls who jumped out and the driver finally saw s/he blocked me.
Since then, always carried.
Most importantly, the whole carry thing also gave me more interests in understanding America. Through research and reading especially on how the constitution was created, I can see those founding fathers were truly for the people and they were trying to designed a nation of the people; however, as the time goes by, more and more people become sheep and politics is all for money and greed - like you now even have some President openly against the constitution.
I guess from seeing guns are just my expensive toys, i now become more political and more involved in American society.
read more at:
http://glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=750154
Hurricane Rita evacuation. First time i ever loaded my M4 in my house, then I realized that I couldn't carry - not the M4, but my handguns because I didn't have a carry permit, nor did TX allow car carry back then. Followed my wife all the way through the jam-packed traffic that moved at 1 mile/hour under 110+ heat and with all my guns locked in cases on my back seat - not a very comforting thing, but luckily things did not turn bad.
Got my CHL right after. Another reason was because I am not a citizen and i am always subject to elongated checks when illegals could have just lied on the form.
Didn't carry for a long time and only did some car carry. Then one day 4 of us went to a club which was located at the far end of a very dark and deserted parking lot, far away from all the traffic. The club was terrible - no customers, so we decided to leave. Once we got into my car, a black SUV suddenly pulled right behind me and blocked us in. I could only drive forward into the club. For a long time, the SUV just sat there with no light no movement. It's dark, silent and with nobody around us - I guess you would have been there to understand. I went to my gun stored in my console, but realized that i had left it with a gunsmith despite the fact that i had multiple guns at home. I was sweating and was fully expecting some guys to jump out and proceed to rob us. Should that happen, I decided to drive into the club. Luckily, it was a carload of some girls who jumped out and the driver finally saw s/he blocked me.
Since then, always carried.
Most importantly, the whole carry thing also gave me more interests in understanding America. Through research and reading especially on how the constitution was created, I can see those founding fathers were truly for the people and they were trying to designed a nation of the people; however, as the time goes by, more and more people become sheep and politics is all for money and greed - like you now even have some President openly against the constitution.
I guess from seeing guns are just my expensive toys, i now become more political and more involved in American society.
read more at:
http://glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=750154