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esseph 2 days ago

There's been debate over this for decades that has run its course.

The consensus is carry chambered or don't carry.

sneak 2 days ago | parent [-]

There is not consensus.

I appendix carry; I’m not carrying chambered, period. My remaining options are to not carry, or carry in condition 3.

I think that’s a simple decision.

If I ever felt the legitimate need to daily carry in condition 0/1, I would move. Cities definitely, provinces generally, nations if necessary. Life’s too short. I’m not in the special forces.

I don’t have to be ready for every conceivable scenario; just most of them. And that’s more than enough.

If history is any guide, now’s the time when someone tells me that not wanting a loaded and cocked .45 pointed directly at my right testicle for 16 hours every single day means that I have a cheap holster or haven’t trained enough or don’t have the right pistol or something. (I’m fairly certain that none of these are true.)

PS: A much more likely scenario than a knife guy charging from 20 feet is a routine encounter with an LEO who wishes to temporarily disarm me during a traffic or Terry stop. I absolutely do not trust some dipshit cop to remove a condition 0/1 pistol from my waistband without fucking it up, which would likely happen right around the time it is pointed at my femoral artery, or worse. Fuck that noise.