I'm a DC resident, applied for my CCW, and I'm now carrying concealed

[Anonymous]

I've lived in cities all across the country. I've never before experienced so much random, reckless, and violent crime. I'm now carrying a concealed firearm.

You can have my car, my cell phone, my credit cards, and any other thing you want. But I am getting home to my family at the end of the day.

This city seems more worried about the wellbeing of criminals than law-abiding citizens. The most important job of government is protecting the safety of residents. The city doesn't have the stomach for it, so I have to do it myself.

I'm a lifelong democrat. I believe in sensible gun control. I'm not a "gun nut." What we have here are not Democratic policies. Democrats don't believe in lawlessness. Parents don't believe in lawlessness.

I pray I never have to use it. I can't imagine having to take a life.

[Anonymous]

Ok enjoy your cookie.

[Anonymous]

If you’re carrying a concealed weapon … you’re a gun nut.

[Anonymous]

Born and raised in DC. Unlike a lot of the posters on here, the transplants. Glad I never came back to the “pit city” after I graduated, Was unable to own a gun legally. Had my dad mugged in broad day light in the alley taking out the trash, my great aunt mugged on Connecticut Ave walking to church, neighbors boyfriend shot house sitting by thieves and he crawled bleeding to her house a lock down. All this in 1988. DC has some very stupid gun hating activists. Live there long enough, you see how stupid. Carl Rowan for example, a “journalist” who decried anyone in dc having a gun and was pro ban, used an illegal handgun to shoot a BCC student pool hopping in Forrest Hill home in 1988, then got busted lying about what happened. Rules for thee but not for me. Glad you are carrying. I’m glad all my remaining family in DC is now strapped. A polite society is an armed society.

[Anonymous]

You say you're fine letting a thief take your car, credit cards, phone etc. So let them take what they want. You're far more likely to make it home alive than if you try to pull on gun on the thief. Because guess what--the gun toting criminals of DC are a lot handier with guns than you likely are. Don't be stupid.

[Anonymous]

I could never. I would be so afraid I would accidentally shoot myself. I'm klutzy. And I don't think I would have the guts to use it in an emergency. I would be too afraid the criminal would take it before I could. But honestly good for you if you're going to be responsible with it.

[Anonymous]

Constitutional carry is spreading. And “may issue” is pretty much gone. MD got forced to go to “shall issue”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You say you're fine letting a thief take your car, credit cards, phone etc. So let them take what they want. You're far more likely to make it home alive than if you try to pull on gun on the thief. Because guess what--the gun toting criminals of DC are a lot handier with guns than you likely are. Don't be stupid.

What if what they want is to rape you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re carrying a concealed weapon … you’re a gun nut.

Pretty much. (Unless you're doing it for your paid employment.)

[Anonymous]

Do you even know how to use it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you even know how to use it?

DC requires training to get a CCW.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been thinking about my H and I getting DC permits lately. Your post is timely. We don’t currently have any handguns in our home but we do have a shotgun. My H would probably register one of the pistols he keeps at his brother’s house in NC and I would like to purchase a smaller one I’d feel more comfortable with for concealed carry. Was the process for getting the carry permit difficult? What do we need to do to register a handgun in DC? Is it the same process we used for the shotgun when we moved here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you even know how to use it?

DC requires training to get a CCW.

+1. Also proof of an unusual need. DC is very strict. OP is Lying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re carrying a concealed weapon … you’re a gun nut.

I think that’s a pretty close-minded way to look at it.

I have a fire extinguisher in my kitchen - does that make me a “fire extinguisher nut”?

Both fire extinguishers and guns have compelling and justified reasons for being kept on-hand for emergencies. If you don’t like guns, that’s fine, no one is forcing you to have one. But you don’t get to force me NOT to have one, either. It’s just like abortion. Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one. But you don’t get to tell others they can’t have one, either. I’ve been a Dem my whole adult life, but they need to drop the whole gun control thing. I cringe and roll my eyes every time I hear someone I voted for prattling on about gun control. It’s a failed issue for us. Americans like being able to own guns if they choose to, and they aren’t giving them up. Dems need to accept that and STFU about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you even know how to use it?

DC requires training to get a CCW.

+1. Also proof of an unusual need. DC is very strict. OP is Lying

Eh, no, I don’t believe that’s the case. Hasn’t been for years, in fact.