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  •  What possible reason (none / 1)

    would your friend have for wearing a firearm in a bar? Is your friend so insucure that he feels the need for personal protection?
    Is the bar such a dangerous place that he can only enter safely with a weapon?

    by Gordon20024 on Wed Nov 02, 2005 at 12:29:34 PM PDT

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    •  It has nothing to do with insecurity (none / 1)

      Why do you always have a spare tire in your car? Are you afraid that your next trip to the grocery store will result in a flat? Of course not. You always carry the spare because you don't know when one of your tires will go flat.

      Likewise with a defensive sidearm. Since the criminal is not going to make an appointment to attack you, to be of any use a defensive weapon must be ready to hand. When you're at a restaurant (or in the parking lot--plenty of folks are assaulted in parking lots) a gun locked in a safe at home will not do you a damn bit of good.

      If I worry, will the future change?--Quai Chang Caine

      by Enjoy Every Sandwich on Wed Nov 02, 2005 at 12:34:02 PM PDT

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    •  Hmmm... (none / 1)

      possibly.

      As a female, I'd like to not have to walk that parking lot between the bar and my car knowing that my gun is locked safely in the trunk safe where I can't get to it when that strange drunk follows me out at O early 30 in the morning...

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      by kredwyn on Wed Nov 02, 2005 at 12:36:18 PM PDT

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