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I don't consider myself paranoid but whenever something happens locally or nationally like this it makes me do a reassessment of my carrying habits. Sometimes I get lazy when it seems that life is all well and I'll occasionally catch myself not bringing a weapon along for a short errand.
The last time that happened I got in the middle of an "armed" daytime robbery. It turned out that there was no weapon after all but I stood by unarmed, talking to the dispatcher, watching two employees struggle with this guy in the parking lot.
So happenings like this always offer me a wake up call.
I don't think that is necessarily true although it may be a matter of semantics. Certainly when I read of an event that is possible in my world and would be a threat to myself and loved ones if it did occur, I do re-evaluate to the extent of thinking about what I might or should do differently. Usually, my answer is that the risk is such that I am not prepared to further fundamentally change the way I live and let the bastages win.HardChrome wrote:
I don't consider myself paranoid but whenever something happens locally or nationally like this it makes me do a reassessment of my carrying habits. Sometimes I get lazy when it seems that life is all well and I'll occasionally catch myself not bringing a weapon along for a short errand.
The last time that happened I got in the middle of an "armed" daytime robbery. It turned out that there was no weapon after all but I stood by unarmed, talking to the dispatcher, watching two employees struggle with this guy in the parking lot.
So happenings like this always offer me a wake up call.
This is a very good point that that needs further discussion. Threats are ever changing. If we are not constantly reassessing and, if need be, changing then we have become complacent. Complacency kills. That is an absolute fact. I have seen it first hand time and time again. From people falling asleep on guard duty to not realizing they don't have a round in the chamber all the way to forgetting their gun at a friends house. I have been complacent in the past also. It is very hard not to when nothing of significance has happened. So if your habits have not changed since then, then there is a very good chance you have become complacent. If you didn't re-evaluate your habits then you ARE complacent and need to snap out of it.
I have seen thoughts on here that say I'm not going to India so it doesn't matter and I am already armed so why do I need to change. You are complacent. Please, re-think that frame of mind in your quest for personal security because right now, you are failing.
I understand your point and it was a matter of semantics or perhaps of degree, as to what "re-evaluate" entails. I think it is generally just a matter of considering the possibilities and thinking about whether or not you are as prepared as you could be or, as I said above, willing to be. I thought that perhaps you intended in a more complex, involved sense hence my comments.Deepdiver, You just said that you re-evaluated yourself. So your doing fine.
Being prepared doesn't always mean having everything you listed. You don't necessarily need to be prepared to attack, in which case you would like to have those things. You should be prepared to get you and your family out of the situation if at all possible, and keep them alive.
How about your firearm of choice, likely a handgun, locked and loaded with an extra mag, maybe two if you have something with a low round count like a Glock 36. A first aid kit with stuff to stop bleeding, a tourniquet, some quikclot, maybe open an airway, or decompress a collapsed lung. A CPR mask wouldn't be a bad idea either. A flashlight because those are always handy. I think that is a very reasonable selection of things to have. I can't tell anyone how they need to be prepared, but to sit by and not say that you need to re-evaluate yourself because your complacent would be wrong. Now is not the time to ruin your life being "over" prepared though. That day may come though.
As far as distance to the threat goes. 9-11 was on our soil. India wasn't, but what about the next one? A gun wouldn't have done a bit of good during 9-11, but your flashlight and first aid kit could. The next incident may be on American soil and your gun might be the ticket.
I started this thread so I'll chime in here after a number of different responses. I am guilty of being complacent from time to time. I have been carrying for over 25 years so I am bound to get set in my ways and routines. Every now and then something happens to make me reevaluate my habits and this was one of them, mainly because so many public places were hit all at once. It made me realize that one of my local malls could be an easy target or some other place where I may happen to be and carrying my 5-shot may not be enough to even consider engaging if I were in a position to do so.I understand your point and it was a matter of semantics or perhaps of degree, as to what "re-evaluate" entails. I think it is generally just a matter of considering the possibilities and thinking about whether or not you are as prepared as you could be or, as I said above, willing to be. I thought that perhaps you intended in a more complex, involved sense hence my comments.
I think that the vast majority of people on OCDO and most firearm forums take these matters seriously and evaluate/re-evaluate on a regular basis even if the recent attack in India didn't spur them to do so.
Thanks, I do have multiple permits; there are some states where your permits don't count, as I'm sure you know - but where you are allowed to be in possession of an unloaded, firearm in a locked compartment; just as when you travel to the range, etc. - if major Mumbai style BGs get going, then you have a full self-defense right to unlock, load and figure out your best steps to safety -"Look into getting multiple carry permits. Florida covers a lot of states, same with Utah. If you get those two it will cover a lot of the states. I think there's a third one to get that if you get it also will cover like 46 states or something like that.