Professors packing heat
I am not allowed to carry a gun on my campus, but our internal security force is so visible with its golf carts that they really aren't necessary. Response time is about two minutes.
My gun is the same shown at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_gun
I suppose I should get it registered. ;)
My gun is the same shown at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_gun
I suppose I should get it registered. ;)
How long will an assailant wait? I prefer to be the armed professor, not the one depending upon the deterrence of, or on time arrival of the golf cart security...
Happy Holidays,
O.A.
I do understand where you're coming from though.
Many will buy a semiauto pistol without a safety. I never have and I never will. Unlike a revolver, they touch off too easy.
In an emergency that thankfully has never happened--so far--all I have to do is draw with my finger outside the trigger guard, thumb down the safety as I begin to align my sights on target, insert trigger finger, aim and shoot. The pistol is semiautomatically rechambered with a round to fire another shot unless you forgot to to insert a loaded clip.
Never forgetting to insert a loaded clip is strongly advised. Ha! Ha! Me dino make a funny.
I practice doing that technique at the range.
I strongly advise against trying to be a speed demon doing that. Calm and steady is really very fast.
Personally, I'd be surreptitiously armed, and have been my entire adult life--but I even change my own oil too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_gun
It is great for decellularizing down into the dermis. Anyone interested in a little genetic modification? The gene gun is how you do it. I am not doing anything as complicated as the following, but this is how to treat a really bad burn victim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_A...
First, only you will ever be 100% concerned for your well being. There were hundreds of cops within seconds of the Pulse night club, but it took them hours to eliminate the killer. Why? Because their well being is much more important than yours.
Second, the killers almost always do their homework and attack those that are vulnerable. When you carry a gun, your demeanor changes and the potential attacker recognizes it and moves on to an easier target. It makes no difference if you carry openly or concealed - you know that you are armed and the potential killer can sense that from your body language. Just like when a woman wears real jewelry vs costume jewelry, the body language speaks clearly.
Third, and related to the above, when you are armed you gain confidence. It doesn't matter that you may be a very respected professional - we are always aware of our limitations. We do not think of it all the time, but in the sub conscience we know that a 20-year old guy with a good physique has an undeniable physical superiority over us. A gun instantly equalizes us, and that feeds back to reason number two above.
It is important to remember that a gun is only a tool. If one does not learn how to use it, it is no more than a calculator in hands of a Neanderthal. But, I'm sure that you wouldn't present a lecture unprepared, either.
As much as I didn't like the (now-deceased) Jerry
Falwell, his son seems to have the right idea at
Liberty University.
Background checks were all that were required to at least be trained at the Alabama Department of Corrections and later as a semi-retired security guard for four different contracting companies.
Background checks only does not weed out the whack jobs and potential crooks. During my 21 years as a corrections officer, a coworker was placed in handcuffs and transported to the county jail for criminal court processing I'd say on an average of one every two years.
Security guard jobs has its share of characters. One was caught spinning his loaded revolver to amuse some gathered children.
I once drove past an armored truck to see its money handler on the other side poised in a squat to draw his sidearm while grinning at me with the craziest looking face
he could make up..
That stupid put-on did not scare me a bit. I drove on recalling up to three goofy guys in Corrections like that. One got fired when a supervisor caught him having same-sex relations with an inmate.
When I go into a gun free zone (usually advertised at the entry) I immediately feel less safe and know that criminals who intend to use weapons already know where the softest target is and I am in it! Reminds me of the dark ages that were ruled by tyrants who plundered the citizens at will. In those states it was against the law to own a sword! Unless you worked for the tyrant. Interesting?
Security response time about 2 minutes, eh?
That should be enough time to complete the seizures from the gunshot wound to your head.....or, perhaps you will be 3/4 of the way through the exsanguination (aka bleed out) from a knife wound to your femoral artery. You need to understand that you have two choices when you are faced with a violent confrontation: armed defendeer....or......unarmed victim. I carry a firearm because a member of an "internal security force" (is that the same as police) is too heavy for me to carry.
Prospero ano y felicidad!
There are many things worse that could happen than a head wound.
Is anybody really safe in America?
I think I'll take a pass on Melbourne.
Crime rate in Melbourne FL
One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 19. Within Florida, more than 86% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Melbourne.
Melbourne FL crime rates and statistics - NeighborhoodScout
My advice...get yourself a nice .40 cal. semi auto, learn how to use it properly and accurately, and get a CC license.
Best Regards,
rtpetrick
www.neighborhoodscout.com/fl/melbourn...
It's like "waitress goes to the bathroom at the restaurant." If it were a story, saying those things together might be foreshadowing. But in real life it's just people being people.
I don't like their being "special deputies". I think all citizens who are so inclined should act as "deputies" like this, i.e. look out for the friends, colleagues, neighbors.
Makes sense to me.
But a sign that says "all staff may be armed, trained and prepared to shoot", the threatening individuals could think twice and it might be a strong deterrent.
I carry a Keltec P32 every day, everywhere, it's not visible through pants or shorts.
Since I live in the State of Gun, o/s carry is becoming more accepted.
Although I do agree that a good guy with a gun is the best and most rapid response I am not so sure that Professors can all be labeled as Good Guys. Some of the ones I know are just smart enough to shoot their own feet off because they lack the Survivor Gene.
on the part of a politician in D.C., some years ago,
in the newspaper. He shot an intruder in the house;
and still stated his belief in gun control; but, ap-
parently, it was not supposed to apply to him.