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BKRushing wrote:I have only had my permit a a little over a month now and while at first I only carried coming and going to my office and when I had deposits to make. Since then I have seen and heard of enough going wrong in seemingly unlikely places that I carry all the time now. You just never know when some nut job is going to come down with a case of stupid. Be it at a movie theater or a house of worship. No where is safe anymore.

Nowhere has ever been reliably safe in our lifetimes.

ShepherdTX wrote:More details on the incident:

Two black males, both wearing gloves and white t shirt across mouth. One of them had a metal pipe that he was using as a weapon. That guy was tall 6' 3". They didn't drive away, they ran into the neighborhood.
So they may be living here. Might also explain the recent property crime in the neighborhood. Still creepy to me that had I been there an hour or two earlier, we definitely would have put the .380 vs. metal pipe debate to the test.

Good thinking on recognizing that anything can happen anywhere at anytime, and carrying that through to not going out unarmed. However, count yourself as fortunate that you didn't have to learn the results of that .380 vs. metal pipe test firsthand.

A determined guy with a pipe can do a lot of damage and, while no pistol round is a sure thing for an instant stop, the .380 relies more on a psychological stop (the bad guy freaks out that he's been shot) rather than a disabling physical stop than do more powerful rounds.

Food for thought: when you need a gun, you need all the gun you can manage.