When someone asks if you have a gun, you say YES!

[dusterboy49]

Nope , CC only.

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

Funny thing... I honestly believe there is a member of MDA who read this article and immediately thought "SEE! Nobody needs a gun. Just tell them you're packin and they'll leave you alone."

 

[findingZzero]

"When someone asks if you have a gun, you say YES! "

"No, but I have a certain set of skills...."
!!!PUNCH!!!!! I go down in the middle of my explanation...

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

[h=2]"When someone asks if you have a gun, you say YES! "[/h]"No, but I have a certain set of skills"
!!!PUNCH!!!!!

Wait...I would have thought, for you, this would have been preceeded by squeezing open a can of spinach!

 

[cobber]

I OC'd today...don't usually. I didn't feel like putting on the concealment vest. So...I figured that allowed me to carry more firepower instead of less because why not? This could be habit forming.

And in the knockout game...why wait for the punch?

"When someone asks if you have a gun, you say YES! "

"No, but I have a certain set of skills"
!!!PUNCH!!!!!

Someone asks you a question, and you shoot or punch them? Guess who doesn't get to raise self-defense at his trial?

 

[JetGirl]

He's one of the guys that helped convince me.

Oh, yeah...I figured. Afterward, when I posted the event on FB, he said about the same thing to me. lol
Well, "consistency"...I'll give him that!

 

[ModernGunner]

Last week when I was in the grocery store check-out line, a guy in another lane kept bobbing/weaving looking at me weird through the racks of stuff and other lined up people. He looked vaguely familiar to me, so I said, "Do you know me from 'Busco?" He says (very boisterously) "Yeah! You're the lady from the gun store! ARE YOU PACKING RIGHT NOW??"

I said, "If anybody really needs that answer...they'll get it."
But I was waiting for security to follow me out...or at the very least a cop car waiting outside.

Had that (similar inquiry) only once, and I responded with "I have no need of a weapon". Which is true.

On the other hand, I DO carry a 'defensive firearm'. Some times, verbiage makes a difference.

 

[jbombelli]

Do you have a gun?

Do something stupid and you'll find out.

 

[88GT]

Last week when I was in the grocery store check-out line, a guy in another lane kept bobbing/weaving looking at me weird through the racks of stuff and other lined up people. He looked vaguely familiar to me, so I said, "Do you know me from 'Busco?" He says (very boisterously) "Yeah! You're the lady from the gun store! ARE YOU PACKING RIGHT NOW??"

I said, "If anybody really needs that answer...they'll get it."
But I was waiting for security to follow me out...or at the very least a cop car waiting outside.

I was thinking about this last night. I was thinking about how I would respond. Then I was thinking about how snarky I could get without being nasty. And I thought of this exchange:

Goofball who can't keep his mouth shut: "Yeah, you're the lady from the gun store! ARE YOU PACKING RIGHT NOW?"
JetGirl: "Good Gawd, no. I think guns are evil."

 

[Thor]

Someone asks you a question, and you shoot or punch them? Guess who doesn't get to raise self-defense at his trial?

Possibly...too many factors to weigh in though. A group of 'people' are coming down the street. They are accosting everyone they come in contact with, robbing or assaulting...basically having a wilding. They see you and your lovely wife and come running. What are you going to do...

 

[JetGirl]

I was thinking about this last night. I was thinking about how I would respond. Then I was thinking about how snarky I could get without being nasty. And I thought of this exchange:

Goofball who can't keep his mouth shut: "Yeah, you're the lady from the gun store! ARE YOU PACKING RIGHT NOW?"
JetGirl: "Good Gawd, no. I think guns are evil."

Yeah... after the fact, I can think of a zillion things I coulda/woulda/shoulda said. But man, that just flabbergasted me.

 

[cbhausen]

TF, is that you?? lol

What about me and ATM??? We feel left out

 

[actaeon277]

Do you have a glock?

No

(Punch)

BANG!

Sorry, Smith & Wesson

Hey.
Someone on Facebook used my line on the Truth about Guns report.

 

[JetGirl]

What about me and ATM??? We feel left out

You guys didn't hassle me on FB.

 

[Redhorse]

Hey.
Someone on Facebook used my line on the Truth about Guns report.

Hey look, you're famous, TTAG is on INGO too. Man we're popular.

 

[dusty88]

Sometimes it's best to answer a question with a question,


"Do you have a gun?"


Don't you?

Yep, I've decided that's my response. It's directed though towards those people who are shocked by the idea. I decided it's a much more appropriate response than acting as if I'm afraid of people thinking I'm a "gun nut" or "crazy because I carry".

I thought of it from a friend of mine who used to carry his skydiving rig on commercial airlines. (his purpose was to keep the airlines from beating up his equipment). When another passenger said "What's that? A PARACHUTE??" he said "Yes, didn't they give you one?!"

I think that's the point that needs to be made to people who are ready to be shocked about the idea of carrying a gun. Of course, I don't want anyone to feel pressured into carrying. But OTOH we should be showing the truth about what it is to us: a means of self-defense. I wear a gun for somewhat the same reason I wear a seat belt or a bike helmet.

 

[actaeon277]

Hey look, you're famous, TTAG is on INGO too. Man we're popular.

Or, I'm not very original.

 

[gman46582]

ganstas like to call em "straps"

 

[indiucky]

Yup.

Also "Gat".

From an old Jimmie Rodgers song, updated to be sampled in an example of "gangstagrass" as heard on justified....

Guilty pleasure and confession.....I kind of like this tune....

[video=youtube;qyCrgQdXUb4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCrgQdXUb4[/video]

"You can take my hard boiled hat..
But you'll never get from me..
My silver- mounted Gat"