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.
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.
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.
No, I have no reason to and never will. I am an extremely good shot with a rifle, though.
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.
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.
No. If I did, it would probably end up getting used against me.
Nope.
No I don’t because I don’t own any guns
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.
Nope. No desire.
I think it’s beyond the pale.
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.
My wife and I both have the proper papers and do carry. Me constantly, her based on where and when.
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…
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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.
One other way the curious could find out . . . .
No, but someday I’ll probably at least fall into the “yes, but not very often” crowd.
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.
I can’t say it any better than that.