Quoted: If you are planning to get trashed, don't carry. If it is just a couple beers, then carry.
I carry whenever I leave my house. I haven't drank til drunk away from home in a long time, but if I were going to, I would not carry.
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I pack in bars.
I drink and pack in bars, BUT I don't get drunk, I don't like to get drunk so I don't worry about accidental getting drunk. I am ok with having a beer and feeling comfortable with my sense of awareness and decision making ability.
I think you definitely open yourself up to a little scrutiny and additional questioning if you were involved in a shooting and had consumed alcohol within a few hours prior to a shooting but to say that your instantly phucked is way out there. A drunk guy who got jumped and shot his attackers is still a victim, a drunk victim yes, but a victim none the less. No laws were broken and the DA has no case.
While I support LEO's and realize the need for them I am comfortable saying that in the hours /days after a shooting if there is even a sliver of doubt of your justification for shooting someone the Police are not your friend, and whether you are crazy drunk or the Pope sitting on a stack of Bibles you need to say nothing and contact an attorney immediately.
It is not always a good idea to leave your gun in the car and walk into the bar assuming that you will be safe because there is a bouncer at the door, the bouncer may be the guy trying to kick your ass at the end of the night.
I think a bar is the place where, on the average day of all the places I might go, I am the most likely to encounter hostile individuals.
I like the idea of carrying OC in addition to your gun, a lot of loud drunks can be silenced with a shot of OC and you can make your exit. When I turned 21 I drank to get drunk, I fell right on my face in the bar scene, I was a bad drunk, I became a different man when the first drop hit my belly, I was not responsible enough to keep my bearing and pack, at 21 I would have been better leaving it at home. I don't know you or your drinking habits, just remember that your entering unfamiliar territory. The bar you go to will say alot too. The big dance clubs are always more likely to have fights and disorder, you go to your corner pub where people are just there to drop quarters in the jukebox and laugh over a pint the crowd will be much more docile. Choose your enviroment appropriately. You walk into the lions den and your likely to get bit. get it?
Not all bouncers are good
Portland newsETA new link same storyNot all bouncers are good and your not going t be hung out to dry if you pack in a bar
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