taoshum
Well-known member
Hello all,
My stepson is a Lt in the sheriff's department. He has been in this law enforement business, including the SWAT team for years and has told us numerous times that we need to be "prepared" for the possibility that we will need to defend ourselves at some time in the future, especially as we get older. Now we have a MH/RV and plan to travel to new places via hiways and might find ourselves in territory where the environment is not as safe or familiar as it is around home.
So we are taking some classes in self defense, not base on karate or whatever, but based on having a weapon closeby if needed. We already understand much of the responsibility it entails and the dangers it introduces as well as the potential for self defense that it provides. We are not young anymore and we are not going to be able to "outrun" anyone with a MH. And, when we travel alone, let's face it, we are a noticable "target". Plus someone already put a bullet through our windshield on the third day after we bought this rig as we were driving through a small town west of here.
I know I'm not the only person who has thought about this topic and there are others who have thought about it much more than we have so I'm hoping to hear about how other people address this issue....
I'm not a hunter so that is not a factor. I know that it is strictly illegal to have weapons or even ammo in Mexico and Canada so that's a fact if you are going across the border.
I know other people have weapons on board, just in case... but others do not for equally valid reasons I guess, but if you do carry weapons, how do you do it? Is it complicated to cross state lines? Do you keep it handy at all times? How do you keep it from being used against you? Or, protect it from theft? Do you get a license of some sort?
If the admin folks think this is too sensitive, please delete the posting.
thanks, Gary.
My stepson is a Lt in the sheriff's department. He has been in this law enforement business, including the SWAT team for years and has told us numerous times that we need to be "prepared" for the possibility that we will need to defend ourselves at some time in the future, especially as we get older. Now we have a MH/RV and plan to travel to new places via hiways and might find ourselves in territory where the environment is not as safe or familiar as it is around home.
So we are taking some classes in self defense, not base on karate or whatever, but based on having a weapon closeby if needed. We already understand much of the responsibility it entails and the dangers it introduces as well as the potential for self defense that it provides. We are not young anymore and we are not going to be able to "outrun" anyone with a MH. And, when we travel alone, let's face it, we are a noticable "target". Plus someone already put a bullet through our windshield on the third day after we bought this rig as we were driving through a small town west of here.
I know I'm not the only person who has thought about this topic and there are others who have thought about it much more than we have so I'm hoping to hear about how other people address this issue....
I'm not a hunter so that is not a factor. I know that it is strictly illegal to have weapons or even ammo in Mexico and Canada so that's a fact if you are going across the border.
I know other people have weapons on board, just in case... but others do not for equally valid reasons I guess, but if you do carry weapons, how do you do it? Is it complicated to cross state lines? Do you keep it handy at all times? How do you keep it from being used against you? Or, protect it from theft? Do you get a license of some sort?
If the admin folks think this is too sensitive, please delete the posting.
thanks, Gary.