I don't know. The bill hasn't made it out of committee yet.What's the penalty?
1. Maybe. It depends. When it is time to apply for Medicare, in less than three years, if it still requires a personal visit, I will have to leave weapons at home, or locked inside a suitable container inside our vehicle. Same thing, when I apply for Social Security benefits, if I am still around, then. (I am not planning to off myself, by age 70; I simply choose not to be presumptuous.)Would you refuse to go someplace based on whether or not you could carry a gun?
Would you refuse to see you're favorite artist in concert if you couldn't bring your gun? Would you refuse to visit the Grand Cañon unarmed?
What ever you like to do would you do it if you had to do it unarmed.
There's no place outside of the United States that I'm willing to go, armed or not.If you make the ability to carry a gun your litmus test, than that pretty much takes international travel off the table for you. Most countries that are worth visiting are quite strict about who carries guns. Hint: it isn't you.
Only on the internet do so many seem to believe the only effective weapon for self-defense that they possess is a firearm.
I feel that I'd be missing out on a great deal that life has to offer if I went only to places where I could legally carry a firearm. And I feel that I've got a lot of life left, and a lot of bucket list activities I want to do as well as places to see.
I couldn't take a carry handgun when swimming with dolphins (and more'n a few sharks) or diving shipwrecks.
Don't pack when downhill skiing (though I tried it once).
Couldn't carry in any of the foreign countries I've visited as a private citizen, while seeing some of the most beautiful sights on earth, including some of the Seven Wonders.
I like taking in the occasional live NFL or college football game as well as MLB and NHL games.
I love live music.
Wouldn't have been able to attend my oldest daughter's awesome destination wedding in a tropical setting.
Although I'm covered in 50 states, as a retiree, I'm restricted to only what licensed in those states private citizens are allowed.
Doesn't bother me anymore.
Some may be content with voluntarily making their world smaller. Me, not so much.
Only on the internet do so many seem to believe the only effective weapon for self-defense that they possess is a firearm.
I have a hard time with this because I don't go to ball games or concerts.On gun forums, ABC, Always Be Carrying*
*Unless it would keep you from seeing a ballgame, concert, or some other "entertainment".
Well, just have to ramp up the situational awareness, use the weapon between your ears.
And those sound like things that could be said to rationalize not carrying wherever.
I make it a rule not to so much as go to the mail box unarmed but if I thought it was likely that I'd need a gun between my couch and the mailbox I wouldn't go at all.
I don't know how to say this because I don't want to throw out the "living in fear" thing but if you let whether or not you can carry a gun someplace dictate the limits of your life, that gun is causing far more problems than it's like ever likely to solve
You're moving goal postsMy Bullmastiff and German Shepherd are afraid of the ocean, they will refuse to get into the water; that is fear.
Like my dogs, I would basically refuse to get into the ocean much past my knee because sharks are in the water, they have the advantage and teeth; that is fear.
I would not refuse to go to a hospital because I can't carry. Oh, but that doesn't count because, whatever...
For 19 years I worked where carry was a felony, KY schools. Did I like being disarmed everyday? Absolutely not. Was I in fear because of it? No.
Carry is a privilege I have living in the USA that I (as a regular citizen) would likely not have anywhere else in the world.
I did a job for 19 years that deprived me of that privilege; what made it sting even more was that I had been a cop before and could carry nearly everywhere.
When I say I avoid places I can't carry it is not fear; I will go if required or if I want to bad enough - that ain't fear it is that I prefer to be armed.
Fear= I will not do that (like my dogs refusing to get in the ocean). I would refuse to pick up a rattlesnake, that is fear.
Preference = I don't like it but will do it if I want to bad enough or required (dogs getting toenails trimmed).
Do I think I "need" a gun to go to the mailbox? No. Do I usually have one on me? Yea.
Do I think I "need" a gun to go to Publix? No. Do I usually have one on me? Yea.
Would I go to Wal-Mart disarmed? Yea, but I don't have to.
I prefer to be armed.
Gunbuster signs are meaningless here. You have to simply leave if asked, or else you can be trespassed. Out of sight, out of mind, don't ask, don't tell, and everyone is happy and none the wiser.I own and carry a very discreet ccw.
That being said.....I generally obey the laws.
(Maybe not the rules)
You're moving goal posts