why one should ALWAYS carry your weapon

[Big Bri]

Just happened down the road form me this weekend

GONZALES, LA (WAFB) - Two people have been killed and one is seriously injured in an apparent home invasion on Babin Rd. in Gonzales.
The home invasion happened late Saturday night in the 39000 block of Babin Road. The Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office was called to the home after family members were unable to get in touch with the people living in the home.
Once they got there, no one answered the door and they had to force their way in.
Robert Irwin Marchand, 74, and step-son Douglas Dooley, 50, were found dead in the home. Shirley Marchland, 72, was still alive when deputies found her and was taken to a hospital where she is undergoing emergency surgery.
Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley says the quiet Christian couple are not ideal victims. All were found with their throats slit and their bodies showed signs of blunt trauma. There were no signs of forced entry.
According to Sheriff Wiley, an entire safe containing gold coins was stolen. The estimated value of all four coin sets is valued around $500,000.
"We think that they knew that there were valuables in the house and yes we think they knew something about the Marchands," says Sheriff Wiley.
The Ascension Parish Sheriff says the victims are well known and respected citizens and they were viciously attacked in their homes. Sheriff Wiley also says the department is working non stop to identify and capture the killers.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office at 225-621-INFO(4636) or Crime Stoppers at 225-344-STOP(7867).
We will bring you more information as it becomes available.

2 killed in Gonzales home invasion - WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge, Louisiana News, Weather, Sports

 

[2manyrocks]

I came into this thread late after having read most of what's posted, and frankly, it's rather shocking to see what others have been through or experienced. The State of Tennessee passed a concealed carry law a few years ago, and I keeping asking myself what we have come to as a society when people feel the need to carry guns to protect themselves, and our state officials evidently agree because they passed the concealed carry law.

I was sitting the vet's office waiting to pick up my cat, and this guy comes in with a ruger strapped to his hip. I was sitting in our local McDonalds, and another guy comes in with some kind of auto strapped to his hip. I don't know either of them. I don't know if either guy is a nut waiting to go off, but it could happen, and there's nothing I can do about it. Not exactly comforting.

It reminds me of Clint Eastwood's view of gun control: "If there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."

 

[dex3361]

I never feel threatened by the law abiding citizen carrying a weapon Its the criminal I worry about.

 

[RoyJackson]

I came into this thread late after having read most of what's posted, and frankly, it's rather shocking to see what others have been through or experienced. The State of Tennessee passed a concealed carry law a few years ago, and I keeping asking myself what we have come to as a society when people feel the need to carry guns to protect themselves, and our state officials evidently agree because they passed the concealed carry law.

I was sitting the vet's office waiting to pick up my cat, and this guy comes in with a ruger strapped to his hip. I was sitting in our local McDonalds, and another guy comes in with some kind of auto strapped to his hip. I don't know either of them. I don't know if either guy is a nut waiting to go off, but it could happen, and there's nothing I can do about it. Not exactly comforting.

It reminds me of Clint Eastwood's view of gun control: "If there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."

The citizens carrying handguns should be the least of your fears. And, people have always carried firearms...most states just recognize that is a good thing now.
If you're uncomfortable with that...maybe you should consider why. If just a fear of firearms, that's unnatural.

 

[2manyrocks]

There's no way to tell if they are law abiding citizens or not just by looking at them, and there's no state permit stapled to their forehead, either. So at what point should a reasonable person start to be concerned?

Suppose your son or daughter just got a job at McDonalds and in walks a guy carrying a gun in a holster. Do you only start to worry when he pulls it out?

 

[RoyJackson]

There's no way to tell if they are law abiding citizens or not just by looking at them, and there's no state permit stapled to their forehead, either. So at what point should a reasonable person start to be concerned?

Suppose your son or daughter just got a job at McDonalds and in walks a guy carrying a gun in a holster. Do you only start to worry when he pulls it out?

People who carry openly are straight up citizens. It, for years, was those who concealed their weapons who were the criminals.
Concealed carry for citizens (via permits) has been around a long time in some states...just recent in other states. Open carry (such as the guys you saw) has been legal in many states since this country was founded.
If you're nervous, it's not because of citizens who exercise their rights of self protection...it's because of the shifty politicians who demonize firearms.

 

[TripleR]

I am reminded of a term coined or at least popularized by Jeff Cooper Hoplophobia, an irrational fear of firearms. Growing up, we carried rifles through the middle of town, to school and guns on someone's hip were no big deal as there was no such thing as a concealed carry permit.

 

[Big Bri]

I am reminded of a term coined or at least popularized by Jeff Cooper Hoplophobia, an irrational fear of firearms. Growing up, we carried rifles through the middle of town, to school and guns on someone's hip were no big deal as there was no such thing as a concealed carry permit.

my dad was on his high schools rifle team, and when he went to LSU he was on their pistol team.

i even remember in the early 90's kids having shot guns in the gun racks of their trucks at school.

 

[2manyrocks]

I remember a classmate opening up the trunk of his car during hunting season in the 1970's and it looked like an arsenal. No one gave it a thought until Columbine and more recently, the Virginia Tech shootings.

Responsible people probably haven't changed, but there seem to be more nut cases to worry about. Just look at the bad personal experiences ordinary people have had with nuts posted in this thread.

It's pretty sad when texasjohn or anybody finds a murder victim on his own property. I'm a long way from Texas, but it bothers me, and I think it should concern any reasonable person that this happened not to mention all the other events that have happened to others that have been posted.

 

[RoyJackson]

Responsible people probably haven't changed, but there seem to be more nut cases to worry about. Just look at the bad personal experiences ordinary people have had with nuts posted in this thread.

Probably not more nutcases...just more extensive reporting on the national news (for better or worse).