Thought Of The Day: Daily Carry Vs Disaster Carry

By Brandon Curtis

I moved to Florida earlier in the year from New York, and it was a great decision. There have been a lot of firsts down here, and the most recent was figuring out and surviving a Hurricane.

I reported a few times that the Governor had signed legislation a few years back that allows concealed carry for FL residents during mandatory evacuations, and it’s valid for 48 hours (and can be extended).

Upon discussion with many gun people, however, I found that they don’t tend to take carrying a firearm very seriously.

I could be talking to the wrong people, but they’re in the gun-owning percentage, and many of them have their concealed carry permits.

During a few conversations, a few of them expressed their need to carry during and after the Hurricane. Their reasons were simple and just as you’d expect:

• If someone tries to look my home, I want to be ready
• If someone pulls a gun on me at the gas station, I want to be ready
• If SHTF, I want to be ready
• I don’t want to have to go and get my gun, I want to be ready

While I understand that a natural disaster brings out many criminals to take advantage of the …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation