rebel8ball wrote:going to bed the night after hurricane ike hit, no power, all the windows open, and not a gun in the house.
The first 'wake up' call for us was Katrina and seeing the anarchy that resulted from that, but we did nothing...after all that was Nawlins not League City, that couldn't happen here could it?. Then Ike hit and my wife and I were returning from evacutating to family in Tennessee and my good lady aksed what we do if looters are in the house. (We got back on the Tuesday folowing Ike), and that settled it. We bought a HD shotgun.
While we were 'outbound' for Ike we had our truck loaded to the gunwales with our precious belongings and we got to Jackson, MS before we couldn't go any further and the hotel was less than comforting. (travel hint: Never stay in a hotel where they hand you the towels, remote and toilet paper when you check in!). That convinced us that we needed to be able to legally carry so we researched the CHL requirements and costs and eventually and signed up for both gun lessons and CHLs (Thanks Tom Estep
) Having the CHL and carrying a weapon is somewhat comforting but the increase in situational awareness really makes a huge difference. People get sloppy with their awareness but that gun strapped to you keeps awreness at the forefront and therefore we tend to keep ourselves out of bad situations that previously we didn't give a second thought to.
