Fangs wrote:Your situation is almost as bad as having your BUG only on you and facing multiple possible assailants. Ever since I had that happen I've been carrying at least my main carry every time it's possible.
On my first day as an LEO, I left the off duty gun I had just purchased in my NYC apartment to go to the neighborhood deli for a couple of items. I missed being one of the victims of a 3-man armed robbery by just a couple of minutes only because I didn't want to go out again, but my wife eventually convinced me. In those days, the BG's in NYC favored executing anyone found with a badge in his pocket (which I had and didn't think anything of until I realized how close a call I'd had).
I haven't needed any convincing to carry whenever it's legal after that.
That and many other experiences with lots of crazy mean people helped me realize that there's a lot to be said for consistently carrying the biggest, most powerful gun that can be concealed under whatever I'm wearing and enough spare mags for at least 1 reload, preferably 2 or more.
Still, every time I go to a gun show, I always am drawn to pick up a little Ruger LCP. I admire the engineering, and I think what a great little pocket gun it would make, and how easy and comfortable it would be to carry and hide. Then I think a little more, and the thought line runs something like this:
If I buy it, for sure I'd end up carrying it instead of those other big, heavy, inconvenient guns. (I can be as lazy as the next guy when I let myself get away with it.)
If I end up carrying it almost all the time, the reality is that's all I'd have to work with if I had to reach for it on a really bad day.
Then I sigh a bit, put the cute, light, convenient little LCP down on the exhibitor's table, and go on lugging around those big, heavy, inconvenient guns and reloads I'd much prefer to have really handy if I should encounter another bad day.
Wow, i was at the edge of my seat and my heart pumping as I read!