• InvaderDJ@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I have no idea how anyone can “forget” they are carrying. I carried fairly regularly for year before letting my CCW expire during COVID. And I was always VERY aware that I was carrying, checked regularly to make sure I was printing, and what places allowed and didn’t allow carrying.

    To me, forgetting you are carrying a gun and going to the airport is a negligent as leaving your gun in a bathroom. It shows you are not treating it with the respect and caution that should be required in order to own a gun.

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      8 months ago

      It’s just complacence. Doing the same thing every day. It’s just a habit. People probably forget. That’s not an excuse at all , in fact, I’d say that becoming complacent with a firearm is extremely bad in any circumstance.

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        8 months ago

        It seems insane that people take a gun with them so often that it becomes a habit. Impossible to comprehend from a country without an unhinged gun culture.

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          8 months ago

          They carry their crippling fear and inadequacy with them everywhere. Why not the gun too?

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      8 months ago

      checked regularly to make sure I was printing,

      Either this is a spell correct or I simply don’t understand the sentence…

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        8 months ago

        I believe it means that the gun is making an “imprint” in your shirt. Like someone could see your gun under your clothes. I would think if someone were concealed carrying, this would be undesirable.

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      8 months ago

      I’ve had issues with pocket knives I forgot I couldn’t take through security. I assume it’s that same with any object a person carries habitually.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t know about forgetting weapons.

      But forgetting you have something on you on general pretty easy. I mean it doesn’t necessarily be on you I am gonna expect the truly forget ones probably was on a bag or similar that they didn’t remember they put something there the other day.