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openryan wrote:
Right now I sit in my computer room, already in my pajamas, so the gun is on the desk in front of me. However, in my apartment, every room is probably within 25-30 feet of the door/entrance.
If someone picked my lock right now and broke in, and they are armed, I would never have enough time to get to the firearm in my bedroom if their intention was to shoot me, or if it ended up being a botched robbery and I was shot in the process.
Dangers, and potentially fatal ones can happen anywhere, in your home, in your yard, at the office, and the list goes on.
I have a hard of time understanding the question you asked in the op as you have trying to understand why we carry all the time.
I would just like to add to this...
I live alone, but my girlfriend does have a key to my place... she always tells me when she is going to be stopping by, and furthermore, has school most week nights...
About 2-3 weeks ago, I heard the door being fooled with, but it was very, very faint, as if someone was trying carefully to not make any noise. I looked at the clock, my girlfriend should have been in school, it was about 9pm. She had also told me earlier that day that she wasn't coming over that evening... so I was expecting nobody to be stopping by, let alone trying to open my door.
As I heard this I got up from my desk and had my gun ready waiting at the other end of the hallway to see who was coming in my door... it was her, she had gotten out of school early and decided she was going to try to scare me/suprise me since she got out early...
But I did realize then that had my gun been in another room, it would have been hard to get to, especially if someone was trying to break in...I usually have music on, and I certainly would not have heard this if it was on at the time, and even harder if the person had already entered and I didn't have close access to my firearm.