you stopped sounding like a normal (if bit jittery) person who has too much disposable income and now you sound like a twat. what you would do if a SpecOps team came for you?? have you visualised this scenario? standing in front of a mirror perhaps?LaughingTarget said:
Poll: Have you ever carried a weapon for self defense ?
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If I could find one, I would carry a Gladius. Partially because I want to channel Crocodile Dundee when some punk pulls out a small swithblade, and partially because it is the most deadly killing tool of the ancient world (Rome used it for the Legions more than 3 centuries). Mostly though because it is sharp and shiny.
Nope never.
I have a gun license, I own a gun, albeit a rifle (remington 7615), I have a sweet KA-BAR knife. I hunt rabbits, pigs and deer.
But I live in Australia, where simply having an unlicensed firearm gets a 5 year sentence. I intend to obtain a handgun license for target shooting, but I'm not a cop/security guard/private investigator so I can't get an exemption that allows conceal carry. If there was a burglar in my house I'd probably fetch the rifle, but that's it.
As for knives, well unless you have a proper reason (such as occupational, self defense isn't a legal reason) you can't carry an offensive weapon.
So what do I do? I don't visit dodgy areas at bad times of night, I drive instead of take public transport and if I'm out clubbing or something I have a handful of loose change in my pocket which I'll throw at a would be assailant before I GTFO and hope the bouncers deal with him (you'd be suprised what that does, people have a natural instinct to try and catch or dodge something thrown at them)
I have a gun license, I own a gun, albeit a rifle (remington 7615), I have a sweet KA-BAR knife. I hunt rabbits, pigs and deer.
But I live in Australia, where simply having an unlicensed firearm gets a 5 year sentence. I intend to obtain a handgun license for target shooting, but I'm not a cop/security guard/private investigator so I can't get an exemption that allows conceal carry. If there was a burglar in my house I'd probably fetch the rifle, but that's it.
As for knives, well unless you have a proper reason (such as occupational, self defense isn't a legal reason) you can't carry an offensive weapon.
So what do I do? I don't visit dodgy areas at bad times of night, I drive instead of take public transport and if I'm out clubbing or something I have a handful of loose change in my pocket which I'll throw at a would be assailant before I GTFO and hope the bouncers deal with him (you'd be suprised what that does, people have a natural instinct to try and catch or dodge something thrown at them)
I've thought about carrying a wrench around from time to time.
But only when I was passing through really dodgy areas.
But only when I was passing through really dodgy areas.
Yes, I'm a police officer. Though I like to think of it as carrying it to defend the community.
Wow, I don't even remember when I made this post, now I do. Ah memories. Well I am serious. I lived in a bad area and frequented bad areas often. My truck was stolen and I had to walk and take public transport everywhere. Oh and trust me, in Camden, you need to be armed... and dangerous. Glad my friends don't live there any more.HotFezz8 said:
I was beaten up every day after school in the 3rd grade for a couple of months. My mom would call the school and there was nothing that they would do. They didn't even talk to the kid. So one day I pulled a knife on him. (yes in the 3rd grade. I was a one badass ************) It was just a small pocket knife and I would have to have tried really hard to do any sort of serious damage to him. Still it was enough to scare him off. I went home at lunch that day (undisturbed and I left the knife at home, not thinking I'd ever need it again) and when I came back to school, he had told on me. The police were there but I didn't have the knife on me so they couldn't press charges. I got searched and finding nothing, they let me go, especially after I explained why I had done it. The kid had almost brained me with an ice block the day before. Little ***** never fucked with me again, and neither has anyone since.
I used tto when i went to school, just a small knife. I never used it and to be honest i always run from a fight that i find doesnt justify anything.
Someone i know got into a fistfight, no weapons used, but they did get fined for having a hidden weapon.
Someone i know got into a fistfight, no weapons used, but they did get fined for having a hidden weapon.
I live in a country with less than 1.000 policemen, no army, the police doesn't carry nightsticks, guns or tazers and we have on average 0.00 murders per 100 people per year, or 1.03 homicides on average every year in the past decade(I had to google that and verify through wikipedia and interpol, lol). Also, the last missing persons case that wasn't solved in less than a day or two was back in the eighties.
Short version : No I have never carried a weapon for self defense, and as long as I live in Iceland I doubt I ever will.
Short version : No I have never carried a weapon for self defense, and as long as I live in Iceland I doubt I ever will.
being seriously: I carry a switchblade, when visiting certain parts of the town, or if im going drinking.
