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pj67coll · #**700** 12-18-2012, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton

Sorry..........I meant 3 over as in 23 mph in a 20 mph school zone.

I do find it curious that you don't carry anymore. The random acts of violence in stores, schools, etc. is not decreasing and you're a sitting duck if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

We cannot get a full carry here but I often muse if I would be better or worse if I had one.

Ah I understand now. Yes it's possible I guess but that just goes to show the stupidity of the thousand foot rule, or any other like it for that matter. I work in a school district, so carrying a gun on me would be unworkable as I have to enter many of 14 schools on a daily basis.

I don't carry outside of school because I just don't see the need. I'd so so if I felt it was necessary but having grown up in a far more violent society than the US, namely South Africa, the level of crime to which I was accustomed was off the charts worse than what exists here, unless of course you are in the worst of the worst areas like Detroit for example.

I'm not unaware of the reality of crime or the utility of handguns for personal protection, I just don't see the need for one in my situation and would not be able to carry one effectively any way on account of my work.

- Peter.