Boyle column: What it's like to carry a loaded gun

[Bulletdog]

I suppose one could say the same about wearing a NASCAR-type helmet every time you get in your car, since the odds of being killed by head trauma in an MVA so vastly exceed the risk of a deadly force encounter. Low downside, bigger potential upside than CCW.

I think that anyone who wants to wear a NASCAR-type helmet on a daily basis should be allowed to do so. And without government permission.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I think that anyone who wants to wear a NASCAR-type helmet on a daily basis should be allowed to do so. And without government permission.

Talk about making SA easier. Stay away from people with helmets on, especially the ones who think there are headphones when there aren't....

How in the heck do you CCW in scrubs- with a shoelace as a belt? Ankle, Miami-vice style, pocket-- or are you in slacks and buttondown mostly?

[Hmac]

Talk about making SA easier. Stay away from people with helmets on, especially the ones who think there are headphones when there aren't....

How in the heck do you CCW in scrubs- with a shoelace as a belt? Ankle, Miami-vice style, pocket-- or are you in slacks and buttondown mostly?

5.11 holster shirt

[TehLlama]

Just a perk for MDs or hospital employees?

This is one that's mystifying to me - the local teaching hospital is in a not-terrible part of town, but it's also the magnet for basically every flavor of ignorant crap (think Breaking Bad - guess where EMTs would take any patient on that show), and the Level2 security guards they have all over the place wouldn't really accomplish anything should something bad really occur... hospitals basically threatening to do their best to end the careers of MDs who would CCW in hospitals is simply asinine.

What myself and FIL are struggling with is trying to convince my better half that her life and safety are conclusively worth more any administrative consequences (he's already made that decision for himself, which has been rather helpful now that he's a contracting physician, and likely part of his logical thought process on choosing that mode of employment for his specialty)

[Hmac]

This is one that's mystifying to me - the local teaching hospital is in a not-terrible part of town, but it's also the magnet for basically every flavor of ignorant crap (think Breaking Bad - guess where EMTs would take any patient on that show), and the Level2 security guards they have all over the place wouldn't really accomplish anything should something bad really occur... hospitals basically threatening to do their best to end the careers of MDs who would CCW in hospitals is simply asinine.

Just like any other business, different hospitals can have different corporate attitudes on a wide variety of subjects, but I can't even grasp the concept of "hospitals basically threatening to do their best to end the careers of MDs who would CCW in hospitals". I've never seen a hospital with that attitude or anything like it. That kind of silly retaliation concept might exist somewhere other than television, but I strongly doubt that it exists very commonly.

[WillBrink]

Just like any other business, different hospitals can have different corporate attitudes on a wide variety of subjects, but I can't even grasp the concept of "hospitals basically threatening to do their best to end the careers of MDs who would CCW in hospitals". I've never seen a hospital with that attitude or anything like it. That kind of silly retaliation concept might exist somewhere other than television, but I strongly doubt that it exists very commonly.

Ever worked in the NE?

[Hmac]

Ever worked in the NE?

Nope. I'm just a simple midwestern boy. But I do know a lot of doctors that work out there. It's not that big a club...

[WillBrink]

Nope. I'm just a simple midwestern boy. But I do know a lot of doctors that work out there. It's not that big a club...

As you know, varies by hospital, but the docs I know here who are shooters/have CCW licenses have told me their careers would be over quickly if they chanced CCW at work, and their reputations damaged if their colleagues even knew they owned guns and didn't view them as tools of evil. etc. Much of the anti gun research that's not worth the paper it's printed on due to horrible methodology that shouldn't pass peer review (and only does because they reviewers agree gun are tools of evil and lack objectivity to referee the paper) comes from the NE. It's ground central for anti gun efforts in the US.

[Hmac]

As you know, varies by hospital, but the docs I know here who are shooters/have CCW licenses have told me their careers would be over quickly if they chanced CCW at work, and their reputations damaged if their colleagues even knew they owned guns and didn't view them as tools of evil. etc. Much of the anti gun research that's not worth the paper it's printed on due to horrible methodology that shouldn't pass peer review (and only does because they reviewers agree gun are tools of evil and lack objectivity to referee the paper) comes from the NE. It's ground central for anti gun efforts in the US.

That is also alien to me. Even in liberal Minnesota, nobody really cares that much.

[SteyrAUG]

What he doesn't understand is that he doesn't get to decide when he will need his concealed firearm to defend himself or his loved ones, the bad guy does.

For over 20 years I've had fire extinguishers in my house and never ONCE had to use them. Obviously that means my house is never going to catch on fire. I think tomorrow I'll just throw them all away.

Additionally I haven't been in a car accident since high school. Clearly those seat belts are completely unnecessary. Also probably don't need homeowners insurance or health insurance since I never used it. In fact, why don't we just get rid of Obamacare...I really don't need it.