Your friend is carrying a concealed firearm.

[Peregrinator]

Imagine: You're out with a friend, doing some sort of normal everyday thing, dinner, drinks, a movie, lunch, whatever. Somehow in the conversation, it comes up that your friend is wearing a concealed gun. It's legal; your friend is licensed and whatnot. That's not an issue. I'm curious about how you react. Do you have any particular reaction? Is it an issue for you?

 

[Adre]

No problem whatsoever... unless he was on drink number fourteen.

 

[KRCummings]

Won't be out with them again. I have no use for someone so paranoid.

 

[Peregrinator]

No problem whatsoever... unless he was on drink number fourteen.

...or number three, imho. Booze and guns is a bad combination.

 

[Peregrinator]

Won't be out with them again. I have no use for someone so paranoid.

Even if it's someone you love? A family member or old, valued friend?

 

[Adre]

...or number three, imho. Booze and guns is a bad combination.

Surely...but a common occurrence I'm told.

 

[hobbit.]

what kind of life do you lead? -

Imagine: You're out with a friend, doing some sort of normal everyday thing, dinner, drinks, a movie, lunch, whatever.

why does your friend need to be armed ? is there something about yourself you are not sharing here?

 

[AuntJemima]

Imagine: You're out with a friend, doing some sort of normal everyday thing, dinner, drinks, a movie, lunch, whatever. Somehow in the conversation, it comes up that your friend is wearing a concealed gun. It's legal; your friend is licensed and whatnot. That's not an issue. I'm curious about how you react. Do you have any particular reaction? Is it an issue for you?

Whip it out and wave it around.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Imagine: You're out with a friend, doing some sort of normal everyday thing, dinner, drinks, a movie, lunch, whatever. Somehow in the conversation, it comes up that your friend is wearing a concealed gun. It's legal; your friend is licensed and whatnot. That's not an issue. I'm curious about how you react. Do you have any particular reaction? Is it an issue for you?

Mostly non issue if we're eating din-din or catching a flick. But no (more) drinks with them if they're carrying. That's just not to be done.

Nobody should be packing if they're out drinking (or even drinking in the house)...especially if they can hang with me and drink the way I get down!

 

[KRCummings]

Even if it's someone you love? A family member or old, valued friend?

What difference does it make? Do you hang out with people you don't like just because they are family? I don't.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I'd ask him why he goes armed to an ordinary social occasion.

What comes next depends on how he answers. Maybe he's a paranoid whackaloon, or maybe he has a real reason to suspect someone is actually gunning for him.

 

[KRCummings]

I'd ask him why he goes armed to an ordinary social occasion.

What comes next depends on how he answers. Maybe he's a paranoid whackaloon, or maybe he has a real reason to suspect someone is actually gunning for him.

So you'd hang with him if someone was out to gun him down?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Depends on where we are. Are we in a place where being armed or knowing someone I trust (I do trust this person, there is a difference between people exercising legal rights, people I like and people I trust with a gun) makes me feel better about the situation or is this a relatively safe area? That makes a difference.

In general I'd probably shrug it off. A lot of times I'm part of the lead from the front brigade but firearms isn't usually a time when I'm the guy who'll leave his at home in good faith that once you see me without a gun you'll stop carrying mine. So I wouldn't be in much of a place to criticize anybody else without being a hypocrite. Though I also agree with KRC, might not hang around a whole lot after that. If you need a weapon to go out to eat maybe we can drive a little farther next time and if for whatever reason you bring it into my home maybe either we shouldn't be friends or we should hang out at your place cus clearly I live adjacent to Hell.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Curious that y'all aren't thinking that the friend in question could be a "she" as well as a he.

Women can clap, too.

 

[Adre]

I can only hope it's Wayne LaPierre and he accidentally shoots himself in the balls. I'd even buy him extra drinks.

 

[koalabear]

No need for a gun when dining out, what could possibly happen.


On October 16, 1991, 35-year-old George "Jo Jo" Pierre Hennard, an unemployed merchant mariner or able seaman who was described by others as angry and withdrawn, with a dislike of women, drove his blue 1987 Ford Ranger pickup truck through the front window of a Luby's cafeteria at 1705 East Central Texas Expressway in Killeen. Yelling "This is what Bell County did to me!", Hennard then opened fire on its patrons and staff with a Glock 17 pistol and, later, a Ruger P89. He stalked, shot, and killed 23 people while wounding another 20 before committing suicide. Approximately 140 people were in the restaurant at the time.

 

[Adre]

Whaddya expect in Killeen?

 

[doctor_insanus]

Won't be out with them again. I have no use for someone so paranoid.

^What she said.

 

[chillywilly2]

...or number three, imho. Booze and guns is a bad combination.

ATF...whose bringing the chips

 

[Peregrinator]

Surely...but a common occurrence I'm told.

And a bad mistake, every time.

what kind of life do you lead? -

Imagine: You're out with a friend, doing some sort of normal everyday thing, dinner, drinks, a movie, lunch, whatever.

why does your friend need to be armed ? is there something about yourself you are not sharing here?

I don't carry, and I'm pretty sure none of my friends do. But the decision to carry is personal.

Mostly non issue if we're eating din-din or catching a flick. But no (more) drinks with them if they're carrying. That's just not to be done.

Nobody should be packing if they're out drinking (or even drinking in the house)...especially if they can hang with me and drink the way I get down!

Sensible.

What difference does it make? Do you hang out with people you don't like just because they are family? I don't.

Do you mean you automatically dislike people who carry guns? Why?

I'd ask him why he goes armed to an ordinary social occasion.

What comes next depends on how he answers. Maybe he's a paranoid whackaloon, or maybe he has a real reason to suspect someone is actually gunning for him.

Maybe t's someone who survived a violent attack in the past?

Curious that y'all aren't thinking that the friend in question could be a "she" as well as a he.

Women can clap, too.

I was thinking of this, too. Rape survivors?

 

[CandiCame]

That is literally 99% of the people around here. I am that friend. It would be a given for me. So... I guess the only reaction/reason it would need to be stated was if there was something about said gun that was cool? Then I would be like, "Oh, cool."

There are seriously people who wouldn't eat with someone who had a gun on them? Then where the fuck do you eat?

 

[ryan8558]

No need for a gun when dining out, what could possibly happen.


On October 16, 1991, 35-year-old George "Jo Jo" Pierre Hennard, an unemployed merchant mariner or able seaman who was described by others as angry and withdrawn, with a dislike of women, drove his blue 1987 Ford Ranger pickup truck through the front window of a Luby's cafeteria at 1705 East Central Texas Expressway in Killeen. Yelling "This is what Bell County did to me!", Hennard then opened fire on its patrons and staff with a Glock 17 pistol and, later, a Ruger P89. He stalked, shot, and killed 23 people while wounding another 20 before committing suicide. Approximately 140 people were in the restaurant at the time.

That was one of the straws that broke the camel's back as far as getting concealed/carry passed in Texas. Because if someone there had a gun they could have stopped him is the reason given for the law. But even now there is a sign on the door of the Luby's Cafeterias that says guns are not allowed in the restaurant.

 

[chillywilly2]

No need for a gun when dining out, what could possibly happen.


On October 16, 1991, 35-year-old George "Jo Jo" Pierre Hennard, an unemployed merchant mariner or able seaman who was described by others as angry and withdrawn, with a dislike of women, drove his blue 1987 Ford Ranger pickup truck through the front window of a Luby's cafeteria at 1705 East Central Texas Expressway in Killeen. Yelling "This is what Bell County did to me!", Hennard then opened fire on its patrons and staff with a Glock 17 pistol and, later, a Ruger P89. He stalked, shot, and killed 23 people while wounding another 20 before committing suicide. Approximately 140 people were in the restaurant at the time.

No point having one if you don't have it with you

 

[Peregrinator]

^What she said.

*shrug* I have a first aid kit and a spare tire in my car.

 

[CandiCame]

That was one of the straws that broke the camel's back as far as getting concealed/carry passed in Texas. Because if someone there had a gun they could have stopped him is the reason given for the law. But even now there is a sign on the door of the Luby's Cafeterias that says guns are not allowed in the restaurant.

Yeah, sometimes I have had to remind myself of shit like that. There are places with "no weapons" signs on the door, but honestly, 99% of the time I forget. Unless there's a metal detector, and then I'm just like, "I forgot" and since an assload of other people have done the same thing they're just like, "Can you run it back to the car?" If you're late for something most places have a gun safe so you don't have to run back to the parking lot. If you know the guy they'll usually just wave you through the detector.