# Poll: How many of you carry a concealed weapon? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 18, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207 "2009-10-18T06:49:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/41 "2009-10-18T20:51:06Z")
> [@glee](#): > > The public in the UK are not allowed any guns for home defence. > As far as I know, only specific cases (like farmers who wish to shoot vermin on their farms) are allowed rifles or shotguns. My main point was just to clarify that Lobsang does indeed live in a place where it is legal to own something like a rifle. Yeah, you have to have a good reason for owning a firearm which makes it piss easy for farmers and others in rural areas for reasons of pest control, but it can also be as simple as having target or clay pigeon shooting as a hobby. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/42 "2009-10-18T21:46:08Z")
I’ll be licensed if I ever get around to going in and taking the shooting test again. I flunked by one shot because I hated the instructor so much that every time he tried to “help” me I got worse. I doubt I’ll ever carry, though. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/43 "2009-10-19T00:17:46Z")
I have a concealed handgun license, but almost never carry a gun, and if I did, you would never find out about it. I live in an area that is pretty safe, and take pains not to go to places where it is not, so usually have no reason. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/44 "2009-10-19T00:42:01Z")
No, I have no reason to and never will. I am an extremely good shot with a rifle, though. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/45 "2009-10-19T01:11:03Z")
Have a carry permit (good for both concealed and open), and I open carry in my new job as a security officer. One thing it’s taught me is that a lot of people are **very** phobic at even the sight of a holstered firearm. If I stop anywhere to or from work I wear my uniform jacket over the holster. Otherwise my firearm, a Beretta 90-TWO, is a full-size handgun that is not very concealable; so I don’t carry otherwise. If I’d ever been in a situation where I needed a gun I wouldn’t hesitate to start carrying routinely (would have to get something that fits in a shoulder holster), and I plan to renew my carry permit indefinitely. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/46 "2009-10-19T01:25:43Z")
I don’t, but I’ve thought about taking a class. I don’t think I’d go beyond home defense, though. My false sense of moral superiority dissolved a few years ago, thanks to intelligent threads like this one at the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/47 "2009-10-19T01:28:18Z")
No. If I did, it would probably end up getting used against me. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/48 "2009-10-19T02:04:00Z")
Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/49 "2009-10-19T02:08:47Z")
No I don’t because I don’t own any guns ---
**Author:** ![Harry1945](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Harry1945](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harry1945)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/50 "2009-10-19T02:24:10Z")
I have a CCW, and own guns, but I’ve gotten out of the habit of carrying. I’ll renew my permit when it expires. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/51 "2009-10-19T02:43:03Z")
Nope. No desire. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/52 "2009-10-19T03:30:54Z")
I think it’s beyond the pale. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/53 "2009-10-19T03:46:02Z")
Licensed and carry when in public. The only way you’ll ever know is to ask me and I’m not going to clue you in that you might need to. It’s like any other type of insurance, far better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/54 "2009-10-19T03:46:04Z")
My wife and I both have the proper papers and do carry. Me constantly, her based on where and when. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/55 "2009-10-19T04:11:09Z")
I have, every now and then. Not licensed, have had the classes, just haven’t plunked down the 200 clams for the license proper. Better to be judged by 12, etc… hh ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/56 "2009-10-19T04:48:22Z")
I carry openly in uniform at work and normally store my gun in my gunlocker at work. But sometimes I have to work downtown and then take my gun home before I go to work the next day. But I usually have to stop on the way home to change my mother’s colostomy bag at the retirement home. Previosly, neither my organization nor the retirement home (I talked to them about it) had a problem with me visiting my mother while wearing a gun covered by a civilian shirt. But now that I have taken a short course on “24 hour carry”, I am authorized to carry the thing at all times. This means that I will have to put the gun into a flat pancake holster and cover it up with a civilian shirt before I visit the retirement home to change the colostomy bag. ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/57 "2009-10-19T05:01:16Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Licensed and carry when in public. The only way you’ll ever know is to ask me and I’m not going to clue you in that you might need to. One other way the curious could find out . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/58 "2009-10-19T06:49:18Z")
No, but someday I’ll probably at least fall into the “yes, but not very often” crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/59 "2009-10-19T12:59:38Z")
No permit, don’t carry, don’t even currently own a firearm, but I’d consider all three, and have zero objection to anyone that does so. I rather object to the objectors, though. ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207/60 "2009-10-19T13:01:36Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > No: it’s illegal where I live, and I have no reason to. I can’t say it any better than that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-of-you-carry-a-concealed-weapon/514207.md?page=4)