Why I Carry A Gun [View all]

I carry at work because my employer requires it.
Kind of hard to be an armed security guard without a gun.
So, that would be one reason.

My wife carries a concealed hand gun everywhere she legally can because she is 60 years old and arthritic and is not going to have any chance if she is ever attacked (key word coming up) again.

At her age and physical condition people see her as an easy mark.

So, that's another reason.

I carry a hand gun (off shift) because I've been attacked as well.

I was at work (unarmed duty) one night and some guy walked up to me asking for directions to some bar. Security isn’t law enforcement; a big portion of what we do is customer service. I had no legal authority to tell the man to stop or not to approach me any further and I had no real reason to because he looked normal.

When he got about five feet away he started screaming that he'd done two tours in Afghanistan so that fat fucks like me could by cheap gas (not that I didn't feel some sympathy for his position) and I found myself in a fight with a drunk maniac half my age and twice my fitness level.

While I was fighting him off with one hand and getting my OC spray out with the other (no hands left for the radio) he broke my nose and cracked two of my teeth (I spent a year going back and forth to a doctor and an endodontist for the dental implants and the deviated septum.)

Now I'm sure that you will point out that the attack arose directly from my job and you would be right.

That doesn't change the fact that people like that exist in our world and they really don't give a fuck how you feel about guns.

As a result of that attack I've increased my fitness level, I work out, I walk several miles every day at work, I lift weights but the fact is I'm too old to survive another attack like that. I very likely wouldn't have survived that one had I not sprayed half a can up Fox Labs right up that guy's nose. IMO the only reason I was able to stay on my feet and in the fight is because I had previous boxing experience

I sure as hell can't pay for the medical bills resulting from such an attack, my employer's insurance paid up wards of 70 thousand dollars to get my face fixed, that's almost 3 years salary for me.

I can't go through that again

that’s why I carry a gun