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Old 02-13-2009, 07:17 PM
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Default One in 50 people in the USA have concealed carry permits

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Originally Posted by billethkid View Post
looking/listening in.

So, just in case they are here is a tid bit to be appreciated. I have a concealed weapons permit and usually don't carry around the house....no need to....but while this burglar activity continues, I do so now. I also have friends who are ex law enforcement who do like wise for the very same reason.

We know exactly the letter of the concealed carry laws and under what circumstances we are allowed to do what.

As I have said in other posts....my property is "posted" with door stickers warning the property is protected by Smith & Wesson security systems.

BTK

Six million people in the US have concealed carry permits. That is one peron in every fifty people (on average).

Practically all off-duty cops and many former cops are always armed.

I have a nephew who works for the Fish and Wildlife Dept who carries. I have another nephew whose wife carries (she's a state trooper). They are responsible, normal, harmless looking individuals and they take their weapons very seriously, but they are the last people in the world you would expect to be armed.

I'd be willing to wager that you were in the presence of someone who was carrying a concealed weapon today and didn't know it and wouldn't suspect it.

Personally, I do not own a handgun and therefore do not carry.

If I were those crooks, I'd be darn careful about breaking into houses in The Villages. Every house has at least one nine-iron!

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