As an Australian/resident, I would feel safer carrying a concealed weapon.

Curious to know, even honest answers from the pro gun lobby.

I am not talking about freedom or rights, I am talking feeling safer.

Honestly, would you feel safer if you were carrying a weapon. Now I mean in Australia and please do not degrade the figures if you don't live in Australia don't answer.

If you try to stack the figures then we have already won the argument just that we don't know it. But you do.

 

Oh and I am not being sexist or discriminating, just seeing if the data is.

 

I always believe that the most effective concealed weapon is " Ze leetle grey cells!"

 

… Can't wait to hear this !!

 

Let's hope we get enough honest responses

 

Please don't forget, this is not about freedom or rights or civil liberties, it's about how you personally feel. Would you feel safer if you were packing a gun?

 

Auzzies won't like being put under the microscope like this.

They love Auzzieland even with all its faults.

And they are fine with a knife culture and knife crime there rather than guns.

 

Same with you guys about loving your nation with all its faults.

Some bad elements carry weapons, mostly for "internal" business. In the past few years there has been a slight increase in armed robbery reports but I think that is more due to an increase in population you would see an increase in occurances even if the actual percentage decreased.

Most Australians I believe think similar to me. Most criminals just want to burgle you, if they thought that you may be armed they will arm.

It's a dog chasing it's tail problem.

 

Oh for those of you who vote yes I will post another poll specifically for you when this one closes.

Thank you all.

 

If you outlaw guns then only outlaws will have guns.

In addition if you outlaw guns you will simply create a knife culture.

Either way you will have no impact on crime.

 

Oh! Bulltwang!!

If you outlaw guns then the crimes have a harder time getting them in the first place

 

Looks like you were right, pathetic if you ask me

 

I carry a concealed pistol almost every day anytime I am not carrying an openly visible holstered one when in uniform.

And whether concealed or open-holstered, I still feel vulnerable to the criminal element.

It takes about 1.5 seconds to recognize a threat, and then another 1/2 second to draw from open-holstered or 1.25 seconds from concealed. That gives a criminal over 2 seconds to get a jump on you, gun or no gun.

So I tend to stay away from people and let no one get within 10 feet of me and never behind me. I am always vigilant and observant of everything going on around me.

The gun itself is not magic.

If anything the gun just gives you one more thing to worry about, as in what if the criminal gets the gun away from you ?!

While I am virtually always armed, either concealed or open-holstered, life is not any easier.

I may feel better off with the gun, but there is more responsibility to protect the gun as well.

Those rare times when I am not armed, such as in my pajamas driving to the drug store a block away for aspirin or ibuprofen or foot powder, I feel completely free because I do not need to protect the gun then. At times like that I grab my pepper spray and put it in my pocket.

Pepper spray is the right answer for most people.

To carry a gun you have to be properly trained with a gun.

To be properly trained you must be trained to kill.

It is not easy becoming trained to kill.

Join the Auzzie special forces, then yes. Otherwise probably not.

 

Have you ever needed to have been armed?

 

Yes. Several times.

 

You are full of schit.

 

Anyone brave enough to go shopping in his pjs, has no need of a weapon!

 

The Australian answer to dealing with armed robbery

 

I figure the improbability of being accosted by a criminal in the short time I am at the nearby drug store warrants my being in PJ's without a gun.

But even so I still bring something with me, which in the case of PJ's is my can of pepper spray.

 

Are the other shoppers impressed by your pyjamas?

 

Just got back from 3 months in the US.
Its a freaking circus, let me tell you.

 

You going to vote? Thanks I am going there next year

 

Good luck...dont go to Albuquerque...crime capital of USA

 

Thanks for the heads up. I plan on buying a bike and touring for 3 months then shipping it back with me.

 

Youll have a sore arse when youre finished...