Conceal to carry - if so what? Or what do you own?

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However i am just jelous as we arent allowed anything here, athough thats not a bad thing as road rage is just alot of shouting here, then you go your seperate ways instead of being dead lol

Yeah, so road rage defaults to the bigger, angrier guy in the UK then? Media hype aside, and contrary to fear mongering, motorists shooting other motorists because of road rage doesn't really happen. I mean, the homicidal driver is already in control of a 2ton vehicle...don't need a gun to kill anybody if so inclined.

Suffice to say that if I lived in America, I probably would carry.
Luckily I live in Australia, and with the lack of guns on the street, and my hand to hand combat training, I have zero need to live in fear.
If I am within 10 feet of someone, I can have them unconscious, or dead, within 2 seconds if I have to.

I don't hate guns, I just don't see the need for everyone to walk around armed to the teeth in a supposedly civilised society.
When in the bush (not hunting) I have my knives and special "camping tool", and of course, if I am hunting, I have my rifle, or shottie, which ever is appropriate.

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THat's funny, I'd think a civilized society would be one where you aren't afraid of your fellow citizens and their own private property? I, too have zero need to live in fear. I have not once open carried or concealed carried or have felt the need to carry any gun in any way throughout the US. I have zero fear of my fellow citizen, even if visibly armed. I find it terrible that anyone in a civilized society would.

...oh no, a terrible thought flashed through my head. I'm a little guy. What if there were big dudes with "hand to hand combat training" out there? I don't think that unsafe mastery of the oriental arts should be wielded by killers. What rational defense is there of having the knowledge to kill be in the skillset of my fellow civilized neighbors? FOr the children!

Sorry, soapbox. I just don't see why everyone doesn't adopt the live and let live approach in matters like these. If one neighbor doesn't like guns, and thinks its unsafe, why is it okay for him to legislate his neighbor's ability to buy one? Maybe, just maybe, opinions on guns shaped purely by action movies and news reports on violent incidents is not an adequate gauge on the issue? If you've never driven or even seen a car before, but were exposed to nothing but news on traffic related death and watched Death Race 2000 over and over again would your opinion on cars be similar? Fifty years from now, let's say technology comes to the point where anything can be done with public transportation 100% more safely and efficiently and to a point where there's no conceivable rational reason to "allow" private car ownership. Would you be defending your right to the private ownership of your VX? What would be your reasoning behind this, knowing the terrible, terrible statistic of death involved with widespread ownership of this death machine? What's that, you say? YOu've never killed anyone in your car? You're a responsible driver? Some freedom nonsense?

I dare say our vehicross contributes to more death in the long run collectively than every single board member's guns...

sorry,can of worms opened.