Kenosis
Regular Member
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Like the subject says, I am brand spanking new to OC'ing and I just got my gun a few months ago. I've put several hundred rounds through it and various other handguns and have practiced for hours doing drills both physically and mentally to prepare myself if I ever needed to use my weapon in self defense.
I started reading the threads on this forum a few weeks ago and have been soaking up tons of excellent info regarding OC, which in turn has given me the confidence to start OC'ing. One of my friends OC's sometimes, but we are both college students and cannot OC very often as we are on campus a lot.
My question is what have you all done to prepare yourselves mentally for the psychological and emotional burden of carrying a loaded firearm on your person. I never gave much creedence to this issue until I started doing serious research on it and found that it is a massive responsibility to carry a gun on your hip - both morally and legally in some situations.
Anyways, sorry about the long post, but this is my first time posting on this forum and I wanted to ask you all to donate some of your experience by telling me what you did to overcome some of the first time OC'ing jitters.
Thank you in advance for any help and thank you in retrospect for your superb postings and professional attitude towards others in this forum.
Like the subject says, I am brand spanking new to OC'ing and I just got my gun a few months ago. I've put several hundred rounds through it and various other handguns and have practiced for hours doing drills both physically and mentally to prepare myself if I ever needed to use my weapon in self defense.
I started reading the threads on this forum a few weeks ago and have been soaking up tons of excellent info regarding OC, which in turn has given me the confidence to start OC'ing. One of my friends OC's sometimes, but we are both college students and cannot OC very often as we are on campus a lot.
My question is what have you all done to prepare yourselves mentally for the psychological and emotional burden of carrying a loaded firearm on your person. I never gave much creedence to this issue until I started doing serious research on it and found that it is a massive responsibility to carry a gun on your hip - both morally and legally in some situations.
Anyways, sorry about the long post, but this is my first time posting on this forum and I wanted to ask you all to donate some of your experience by telling me what you did to overcome some of the first time OC'ing jitters.
Thank you in advance for any help and thank you in retrospect for your superb postings and professional attitude towards others in this forum.