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[mcantar18c]

and then what if a giant meteor falls from the sky crashing into the earth and sending billions of tons of dust and debris into the atmosphere and causing the earths orbit around the sun to change , causing us to move milions of miles away from the sun sending us into a permanent ice age and everyone DIES..... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
/sarcasm


You missed your calling Brother, you seriously should have been a TV Writer. your what-ifs play out like a TV Cop show.

Unlikely, sure, but not impossible... I've seen more than a few instances of road rage that turned into news stories.
Its also pretty unlikely that your gun will go off when you don't intend it do, that somebody will break into your house, that you'll win the lotto, or that you'll be hit by lightning... yet we still use safeties, lock our doors, buy lotto tickets, and nobody in their right mind will go stand out in the open in a lightning storm.
As a CCWer, we need to think about the "what if's" and avoid situations that could put us in a position to make somebody's day take a very bad turn, no matter how unlikely. There's a line I heard once.... "when you carry your gun, your middle finger stays at home."

[Ronin13]

There's a line I heard once.... "when you carry your gun, your middle finger stays at home."

Ok now this has me confused... I can't (or shouldn't) speak my mind via my hand gestures just because I'm carrying? If I'm driving and a person cuts me off, I give them a honk, they flip me the bird, then I return the bird, I'm wrong because I'm armed? He was in the wrong to begin with by being a d-bag and flips me off, but if I return the gesture I'm wrong? Someone please give me some fidelity here, because I thought because I'm armed I'm more easily able to defend myself and others from serious threats, not disengage my road rage chip in my brain. I wouldn't ever use my gun in a road rage incident that I started (although I don't start them, I usually am not the one to make the wrong move) unless the guy follows me, confronts me with a tire iron or some other tool that can be used as a weapon, then I just draw down. But I have never had anyone confront me over road rage- if I do something dumb, like not see a guy who's been camped in my blind spot for 10miles and I make a lane change and he beeps at me I was and mouth "sorry", usually they flip me off and it ends there. Or if someone drives like a jackass around me and I beep at them if they flip me off, I flip back and that's pretty much the end of it there too.

[ghettodub]

Ok now this has me confused... I can't (or shouldn't) speak my mind via my hand gestures just because I'm carrying? If I'm driving and a person cuts me off, I give them a honk, they flip me the bird, then I return the bird, I'm wrong because I'm armed? He was in the wrong to begin with by being a d-bag and flips me off, but if I return the gesture I'm wrong? Someone please give me some fidelity here, because I thought because I'm armed I'm more easily able to defend myself and others from serious threats, not disengage my road rage chip in my brain. I wouldn't ever use my gun in a road rage incident that I started (although I don't start them, I usually am not the one to make the wrong move) unless the guy follows me, confronts me with a tire iron or some other tool that can be used as a weapon, then I just draw down. But I have never had anyone confront me over road rage- if I do something dumb, like not see a guy who's been camped in my blind spot for 10miles and I make a lane change and he beeps at me I was and mouth "sorry", usually they flip me off and it ends there. Or if someone drives like a jackass around me and I beep at them if they flip me off, I flip back and that's pretty much the end of it there too.

They said that in my CCW class as well, and how since you're carrying a firearm that you should be the bigger person. I agree with this, because flipping someone off can escalate a situation quickly...

[mcantar18c]

Ok now this has me confused... I can't (or shouldn't) speak my mind via my hand gestures just because I'm carrying? If I'm driving and a person cuts me off, I give them a honk, they flip me the bird, then I return the bird, I'm wrong because I'm armed?...

Being armed, you need to hold yourself to a higher standard than the rest of the sheeple. Flipping them the bird is a way to potentially aggravate the situation, and these are things we need to be aware of. Wasn't there a post here not too long ago where some incident occurred and the other driver went beside them and started waving a gun? It happens, it could happen to any of us. I know if someone started waving a gun at me while driving and I couldn't get away from them for whatever reason, I'd be firing at them.
If you're driving and somebody cuts you off, yell at em at the top of your lungs or cuss at em till you'd make a sailor blush, but past that just let it go and be done with it... no need to honk, flash your lights, tailgate, flip them the bird, or give them any other excuse to continue interacting with you.