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by threeg45
Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:50 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?

There were several thing that happened. Over the last few years we all have heard of the home invasions, car jackings and domestic murder and I started to become more concerned and well my eyes were opening as the violence kept getting closer to where we lived. The final group of instances had to do with a friend of mine saving his neighbor from a beating with a baseball bat. Because my friend went into the street to stop this thug, my friend was detained and treated like the thug should have been. My friend now has his CHL. At work, I am a supervisor for a logistics company and have to deal with warehouse punks, angry truck drivers and a dangerous public due to the warehouse district. We have had drivers sent to the hospital because of beatings, I have been threatened, my drivers have been threatened, (we know where you work and live). I had enough! I will protect myself, my family and my friends to the best of my ability.
We have had one major incedent at work since I received my CHL and thankfully no one was hurt or killed. A temp driver began arguing with one of my drivers, it escalated to the point the temp driver punched the other and then pulled a knife. The temp driver was stopped because our driver defended himself by pulling out his own pocket knife. I was at the other end of the building in the office at the time. I received calls from other drivers about the knife being drawn.

That is why I carry everywhere that I can, If I can't, then I really try not to go inside. I carry around the house and my property. My wife in this last year has received her CHL. My daughter and son in law will have theirs within the next 60 days.
Like a member of a forum I read says. "trouble never makes an appointment."

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