Why Do Concealed Carriers Carry Concealed?

guns.com ^ | 28 January, 2012 | John Elliott

[marktwain]

Many gun carriers do so for political reasons. Carrying a gun says: The Constitution means something. The rule of law means something. I am a citizen, not a serf.

[grobdriver]

Why Do Concealed Carriers Carry Concealed?

Because I can.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Because the police harass you when you carry open?

[KodakKing]

Amen brother!

[70th Division]

A police officer friend of mine said it this way. I ask him many years ago why he carried a 1911 (45). He said because they don’t make a 46.

[cuban leaf]

The guy driving the caterpiller to fix my private road wore a sidearm. He said he did it because once he was stuck in his rig due to a pack of wild animals that wanted in. With the gun, no problem.

[goseminoles]

If it wasn’t concealed, it wouldn’t be called concealed carry.

[MindBender26]

Because I can and more importantly, if and when we were ever attacked by the rash of flash mobs we all hear about now, I would not have to cry “I’m sorry” over my wife’s dead body at her funeral... or she the same for me.

[cripplecreek]

I’m OK with not knowing.

[crosshairs]

Why Do Concealed Carriers Carry Concealed?

Because, to quote the Beatles, "Happiness is a Warm Gun".

Although Lennon may think differently now.

[Kenny Bunk]

I carry concealed for the same reason I keep my (other) tools in a chest. It’s no one’s business what I have or don’t have

[USS Alaska]

why would anybody go through the three-ring circus of getting a permit, forfeit their fingerprints over to Uncle Sam in the process

In PA you don't get finger printed to get a permit.

I've been printed, in the Army, certain kinds of jobs, being arrested, but never to get a permit.

I never leave home without at least two, and sometimes more guns.

If violence takes me, I won't go alone.

[bopdowah]

“Carrying a gun says: I am a citizen, not a serf.”

It also says “I’m not going to be a victim”.

We all know “when seconds count, the cops are just minutes away!”

[drbuzzard]

When someone asks me why I carry concealed, I ask them if they wear a seat belt. If they reply ‘yes’ I say it’s the same reason.

You don’t wear a seat belt because you expect to get in a car accident. You wear it because it gives you the best odds if an accident happens to occur.

I carry a handgun, not because I expect to be assaulted (much less because I have any desire to shoot someone), but rather because if I am confronted with some bad situation it can provide options which improve my odds.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Why Do Concealed Carriers Carry Concealed?

I tried carrying a cop around with me, but they're too heavy.

Or...

"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."

[clee1]

And, they don’t fit as nicely in my pocket! ;)

[mosaicwolf]

Because I have a romantic attachment to guns and I like to keep romance private.

[Maverick68]

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[ßuddaßudd]

The element of surprise. . .