Originally Posted by needacar

I am absolutely dumbfounded that so many of you don't see the need to protect yourself. Sure I understand that the chances that you will be carjacked, kidnapped, robbed, mugged, or worse are slim to none.....but it CAN and DOES happen every day. There are valid points to be made for the legal liability you take on if and when you brandish your gun in public, but you are WELL protected by the law as long as you obey the law.


On Jan 6th 2007 Channon Christian (21) and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom (23) went on a date. First to a restaurant and then headed to a friends house to watch a movie. They never made it. Carjacked, kidnapped, and taken to a house where a total of 5 attackers waited. Christopher was tortured, raped, mutulated, and burned in front of his girlfriend. Channon was raped in every possible way, tortured, murdered, dismembered and burned.

Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom murder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




It happens. I am sure he was just as strong and tough as you are. I gaurantee they never thought it would happen to them, but it did. How naive to truly believe that bad things only happen in bad neighborhoods, or that you will never need more protection than your fists. I hope that I don't ever have to use my pistol, but if someone comes on my car at a stoplight, breaks my window, gets inside and threatens my life...I will shoot.