Lyft or Uber users. Please be careful!
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I have to use Uber or Lyft once a while when I was in other cities when I wasn't going to rent a car. I would check the license plates also.
Hey, there are times when there are no other options. But by all means, be careful and be smart about it. Sadly, some people are not - they just blindly trust that nothing is ever going to happen to them, until it does. I have a sister like that. She always called me a fear monger when I tried to give her some sound advice on protecting herself. Unfortunately, she has been victimized a couple of times and it could have been prevented if she had been more situationally aware. Some people insist on walking through life with blinders on.
I have to several times but I always am careful. One time walking dogs and car won't start.
It may be just me, but I never go any place where I can't carry. That's why I haven't been back to CA to visit my family there. CA gun laws are ridiculous.
I hate flying, so it limits where I go. The same gun issues apply there as well. It's a big hassle to transport firearms. So I usually stick to places that I can drive to and keep my weapon.
I have driven coast to coast, so driving doesn't bother me. I just take more time and enjoy the journey. Seen some pretty cool country and met some really neat people on those road trips. Couldn't do that further down in Mexico and Hawaii however. But those are the only two exceptions.
Used to take short day trips to Northern Mexico back in the day shopping or hanging out in some hole in the wall bar. But I haven't done that in over 25 years. When the cartels starting running rampant, that is when I stopped going there. I don't remember what they called them in Spanish, but it translates something like "meat wagon." In Juarez the meat wagon would drive around the city every day collecting the bodies. Seen a couple at a gas station in their Cadillac that got shot up. That was enough for me. The situation in those border towns has only gotten worse over the years.
I understand the car not starting however and having kids or dogs with you. That sucks. The only thing that could have made that situation worse is being stuck at night in the middle of a bad rain storm.
Have a great week brain.
Nice to know. U.S is a very beautiful place for road trip.
I carry always (of course I do - I'm a Texan) but today I found myself in a bad position that REALLY pissed me off. I had to take my wife to urgent care, and I took my car since it has a gun safe. I locked the gun in my gun safe and went into the clinic with her, and when we were done we got back in the car and I tried to rearm. The battery in the safe died - no warning or anything. So because I am law-abiding and disarmed to go into a hospital/clinic I couldn't rearm until I got home and grabbed the gun safe key (And replaced the battery).
Had we gone to church instead of urgent care I wouldn't have had any problems because I wouldn't have needed to use the safe. Our church has a sign out front (not the legal 30.05, 30.06, or 30.07 signs Texas requires) that says No Open Carry Allowed. They say nothing about concealed :) . Texans with guns know that usually means the property owners don't have a problem with concealed carriers but don't say that to appease anti-gun people. Same thing if they put up a picture of a firearm with the big red circle/slash around it. If however a property owner knows you are carrying they can ask you to leave and if you don't you can get a trespass citation. Also - in Texas a church is considered as any other property - guns are not prohibited unless all 3 required signs are posted exactly as required. Many states outlaw church carry unless you are their security team.
The next car I buy will be one of the small SUVs with a console that I can have a gun safe built in, and I'll hardwire the safe if it is electric. I don't like to put the key on my keyring in case someone gets my keys.