GO-Bag and General Carry
POSTED BY: Wulfenstar
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 03:45
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I carry cash, and one key to my house. Sometimes and a credit card and my passport (for credit card ID) if I am shopping a lot.
I would be a pretty rotten pacifist if I carried weapons. :P
Can't Take (my gorram) Sky
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Everything I say is just my opinion, not fact.
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Wallet, keys, phone. Sometimes a chapstick. Occasionally my iPod. That's about it.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
I actually live in a very nice area now.
Just some.. reactions.. don't go away.
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"
P.S I'm all out of fuken bubblegum.
That's why you feel to need to arm yourself to the teeth when you go visit the shopping centre. I guess some old granny might try and pinch your parking spot. Got to prepare yourself for reacting to that kind of tyranny, right?
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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Just wondering what other folks carry on a daily basis.
I usually have on me: 1. Glock G23 (2 extra mags/hollow points) 2. SpyderCo folding knife 3. Zippo 4. Swiss Army knife 5. Cell phone 6. Pocket flashlight 7. Wallet 8. Keys
How about you?
When I carry it is either a Glock 17 and a spare mag or a Springfield stainless GI 1911a1 and 2 spares. Plus a flashlight, multi tool and a Columbia River KISS knife, keys and an iPhone.
Go bag is always in the vehicle along with an inexpensive bolt action rifle and 80 rounds of ammo. Unless I'm traveling behind the lines into NJ, NY and MA. If then I leave the rifle and rely on my Dead On demolition tool.
Kel Tec P-11 rests in my desk at work.
The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.
...and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36
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I imagine they don't have this problem in Australia, but thieves often stake out parking lots watching for people who have made expensive and easily pawnable purchases, then follower the buyer out to the next store / their house, and break in to get at the goods when the buyer leaves again. It pays to target richer low-crime areas in this case.
Normally they're not grandmothers.
There are other situations I can think up as well why it's not a BAD idea to be prepared, at least in America. Surely you've noticed Americans seem more crazy, in general, than Australians or the British.
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I always knew they shot each other more, but I've only really started to get a handle on the American psyche (and psychos) since I started posting on the Internet.
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Geeze, lemme put it to you this way, back when I was in high school and they pulled that old "smelled marijuana" crap as an excuse to search a bunch of us...
The sight of me in that office lead to groans of misery, cause the phrase "empty your pockets" was gonna be a half-hour affair with a whole lotta WTF?! involved, to the point where they'd just send me on my merry instead of searching me.
Because of my jobs being generally something riskier than office work, and being a pain the ass to various powers that be, I wear class II-A light armor and my jacket is reinforced with TaserShield and ballistic cloth - although in practice that's more to keep my puny arse warm in the frozen wastes of Michigan than anything else, and off-duty I do carry a piece, sure...
Yet I am ever more likely to use anything in reach unless I feel blasting someone is really warranted, which is a damn rare thing in the real world, don't you know.
Nah, what drives folks nuts is the tools, you see.
Be damned if imma list em all, but some of the more useful and pocketable ones....
Supermag firestarter.
http://www.rockcreek.com/camping-essentials/magnesium-firestarter/?ref
=a_cjfeed
The now-infamous "Bone Wrench".
http://www.amazon.com/Thorsen-Tools-Dog-Bone-Wrench/dp/B001O3E7UG
The Victorinox Swiss-X.
http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-SwissTool-X-Pouch-53936/dp/B00004YVB1
/ref=pd_cp_hi_2
Spark Plug Gapper.
http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-67870-Spark-Plug-Gauge/dp/B0002STS2Q
LifeGear 6-in-1 with Cell Phone Charger.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Gear-PSD6in1DC-Personal-Safety/dp/B0015H0P5
M
I could go on, but you get the idea, even though none of it bulks that much, I really am kind of a mobile repair shop on legs, and most of my on-board kit is decided to repairing YOUR on-board or other kit, up to and including a pistol cleaning kit which bulks no more than a magic marker.
Like Burt Gummer, only with tools.
Quote:
Jodi: Uh, but do we have a lighter?
Jack: Burt does.
Burt: How do you know?
Jack: Well, 'cause you're... Burt.
......
Burt: *presenting lighter* Damn right I am.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrazyPrepared
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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Hello,
"Correction: once I had to run. The woman was a psycho and a sniper, and was trying to shoot anything that moved. Check that, two psycho snipers, but only one actually snot at me, the other I stayed out of range."
This... begs for a larger story.
"I've only really started to get a handle on the American psyche (and psychos) since I started posting on the Internet."
Most people are quite normal and sane, even in America. I think there may be a certain cultural pride in being perceived as formidable, dangerous people. However, I also think the average person here is much like the average person anywhere. The cultural mythology may be different in other countries, but mythologies are mythologies. I'm sure the Australians like to be known for something. I'm not sure what, because Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Hunter is nearly my entire exposure to Australia. Crazy wilderness adventuring?
"How about you?"
I usually don't carry. I have a three-foot chain upon which my keys are fastened, but that is not for the purpose of defense. Rather, it ensures I don't lose my keys. I have a mini-swiss army knife, but that is for cutting the many miscelaneous things one encounters in urban life, from clothing threads to retail packaging.
When I do carry for personal protection (on the rare instances I feel the need), it is either a .22 single-action bird's head grip revolver from Heritage Manufacturing or a .380 Makarov. This, kept in a belt pouch called a- (I wonder if Kane will chime in here) Fast Action Gun bag. It has pockets for wallet, money, etc. It also unzips to reveal the weapon.
For neighborhood watch, I carry a large maglight and a mace-dispenser. I do not like the idea of carrying a firearm when I am patrolling, and I'd have trouble articulating to you why that is.
The only other weapon I ever carry is a .357 single-action revolver, when I go shooting in the desert. My long-arms are stowed in a storage case until needed for practice, and so I don't think they qualify as 'carrying.'
--Anthony
Assured by friends that the signal-to-noise ratio has improved on this forum, I have disabled web filtering.
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
That's why you feel to need to arm yourself to the teeth when you go visit the shopping centre. I guess some old granny might try and pinch your parking spot. Got to prepare yourself for reacting to that kind of tyranny, right?
1) Criminals refuse to make appointments.
2) Cops are too heavy to carry.
How many observation cameras do you have near you? I bet there are plenty. But crime hasn't been curtailed at all, has it? All they do is help the police identify the corpses after the crime is over.
Fortunately I live in a state that has affirmative self defense.
The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.
...and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36
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Magon
This forum is not a representative sample. Firefly is a gunslinger show, among other things. You get a much more gun weilding fanbase than the general population.
My encounters with guns not mine were often as not outside of America. I live in redneckistan. I rarely see guns here. No one here "carries" except cops.
We have hunters, and you hear gunshots that time of year, hunting season. I think of this as American idiocy, a lot of these hunters, the majority actually, come up from the city. Every year there's an accident, and someone gets shot. But honestly, the most deadly thing around here is the roads. Cars, but more than that, trucks, if you're looking for violent death.
Pollution kills between 10 to 100 times as much as everything else combined. That's the true American idiocy, but it's slow and invisible. There's basically a few types of chemical contamination: Water, probably the most deadly, food, second, is laced with all sorts of stuff, and then there's hospital contamination, particular in vaccines, which is why you here so much about it, it's not a statistically insignificant killer. Air pollution is pretty low on the killer list, outside of smokers, but it's increasing.
Australia is looking better every day.
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