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Originally Posted by Cobrabill
1)I've carried concealed for the past 25 + years.Always a Colt .45 or a variant cocked & locked.No issues-no AD's.
2)No, it doesn't make sense.The idea of requiring 2 hands to be ready for "business"instead of one is reckless at best.
3)Again,i carry concealed on my hip always with a round in the tube.My boot gun(.380)again.always one in the tube.
In the event the use of a firearm is necessary,EVERY split second can be the difference between life & death.To say that it's NOT a huge reduction in readiness is simple lunacy.
Furthermore,i hope you meant "trigger lock" Vs trigger guard as 9 out of 10 holsters have trigger guards.
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1) If you carry concealed, locked and cocked, you're a better man than me. I can't carry under the shoulder because I don't wear jackets all the time (I live in South Florida). I could carry in the small of my back, (which is most comfortable) but it either requires me to tuck my shirt in over it, or run the risk that it could ride up my back and expose the gun (unbeknown to me). So my only real option is to carry in the front. I'm not carrying locked and loaded with the pistol pointing at my nuts.
Again, if I have to draw the weapon from a concealed carry position and fire, it's not a severe drop in readiness to have to rack a round. Actually, it's a fairly fluid motion. I'm 10 times more likely to experience a self defense encounter while sitting in my vehicle, and even then I don't carry with a round chambered (with it sitting beside me).
In the end, that's a personal choice on my part.
This argument is obviously tiresome. Some people have their opinion, I have mine. I take responsibility for my actions. If my pistol went off, I wouldn't go blaming someone else.
I don't care if the government required you to disrobe and do jumping jacks in the cockpit in your boxers with the pistol locked and loaded, if you fire your weapon, it's your fault. Period. It cannot be any other way.
Again, I think the bureacracy is dumb and needs to be fixed, but fixing the bureacracy isn't going to prevent unfamiliar operators from discharging their weapons....it's only going to take a burden off people already negotiating a bunch of dumb rules.
The problem with blaming the "program" is that it implies if you change the program it will fix the proximate cause (which is operator error, not procedural requirements).
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