I've carried a Weapon with me at All times for many, Many years. Never Shot anyone. Never been Robbed either. And so it goes.

Ma'am, if that's how you feel, please cancel your home and car insurance, and stop wearing your seatbelt. If you've never needed them before, you don't need them now. I, however, have had need for my firearm in the past, and hope to have it available in the future in case the need comes again.

Let me guess, you are afraid of guns. Please don't project your own phobias onto others.

It only takes once.

But you are missing the point on the Restaurant Ban. Say I decide to take the bus from my office to McArthur Mall to do some shopping, then walk to meet friends for drinks downtown, before going by cab to dinner at San Antonio Sam's, then walk to the Little Theatre for a show. That's a lot of traveling around Norfolk at night but because two of the stops are at restaurants that serve alcohol, I must choose between going unarmed the whole night, much of which I will be vulnerable, or making some of the patrons of the restaurant nervous by carrying openly at dinner. I am a polite guy, I would rather carry concealed and not make people nervous, but if I am forced to choose by a pointless law, I will carry openly. Aside from which, under the change we wished to pass last year, I would not have been able to drink alcohol while carrying concealed, but under current law I can carry open and drink so long as not drunk.

I'll bet most victims of crime thought it was pointless to worry about trivial things like, uh... Safety and security! We live in a relatively peaceful society, but every victim of rape, murder, assault, etc, lives in this same peaceful society. It would be pointless for law-abiding citizens to have the means to defend themselves against these types of crimes. Take a poll in a prison, and ask them what they fear most when in the act of committing a crime against another person or in a home. I'll bet it's not the police! Then ask yourself, Pauline, if your biggest fear is something you would like to avoid. If so, Pauline, then I'll bet that many would-be criminals would like to avoid armed citizens at all cost. Being around a law-abiding citizen wearing a gun is a VERY safe place to be, but it's probably pointless to argue with you.

and I eat out often as well. But really guys. How many times have you been a victim of a crime in a restaurant? Personally, I think that if you honesty believe that you will not be safe unless "strapped" at a restaurant, then you probably should just stay at home.

First of all, if you are going to deny someone a right to defend their life, you should have a more substantial reason than that you personally find it unnecessary.

But by all means, google "Luby's Massacre" and in particular, read Susan Gratia's account, and you will understand better why Texans no longer disarm honest citizens in restaurants.

I carry a handgun regularly, concealed or open, depending on weather. I don't do it because I expect to need it. I hope it will remain 'useless' all my life. But I also carry a useless (fires on well maintained boats are rare) fire extinguisher on my boat every time I go out. It is a reasonable precaution against a very unlikely event which carries severe consequences for the unprepared. If you want to go boating without a fire extinguisher, that's between you and the Coast Guard, but don't tell me to leave mine at home.

I couldn't agree more. In fact, that's the same comment I made with the earlier post. And if a gun is no different from a camera phone--haven't you once again made our pont? Huh? Guns--simply not necessary here.

That’s a peculiar combination of adjectives and verbs.
What you view as an “unnecessary accessory” is what others view as a machine. A tool which may prevent a crime (hopefully just by the mere presence of it), or stop a crime in progress.
You can snap a picture using your cell phone (unnecessary accessory) and then later deliver it to law enforcement. Mr. Rose can pull his weapon (justifiable accessory) and hold the criminal for law enforcement.

Maybe to you. To me, wearing a hat indoors is pointless. Wearing socks with sandals is pointless. Smoking cigarettes is pointless. Arguing with a liberal is pointless. And, etc, etc...

Is 'pointless' really the strongest argument you can come up with?

jmo