Bring a gun while being over the road?

Not necessarily so. I know one guy personally that shot a intruder and have read several more in the local paper over the years. Where it is clearly a sign of self defense, you don't get arrested around here. You will get questioned and grilled over your recollection of events but I know of nobody that has been arrested over a seemingly clear case of self defense. All the ones I speak of is shootings that happen on private property by the landowner. I'm sure a shooting in a parking lot or other public place takes more time to iron of what happened and a arrest of the victim becomes more probable until all the facts are in.

All bets are off on civil cases and you are more than likely to be hit with a civil case unless you are just dead broke with nothing for the plaintiff to collect.

 

In most places, you don't go home to your family, for a long time.
And while that is better than never, what I am saying is that a gun is not the best answer to most situations, and is like a time bomb waiting to get you locked up for years if you go the wrong place.

I have guns, I have training, and based on my training, at this point *I* am safer when I am not carrying it.

This could change at some point, but that is the current situation.
And if you are otr trucking in non-gun friendly places, the risk to you just went way up!

 

It's my understanding, in nearly every state, a shooting results in an arrest. For the reasons you cited, it's an immediate investigation. A man is dead, you are detained.

You make a strong case for the defense and they will be coming. Families of criminals always sue, and this is something people must understand before carrying (not shooting), a weapon.

I will never, and I mean never, draw my weapon unless I feel my life is in danger for these reasons. You come at me to fight out of nowhere, I won't draw. I'll use self defense and protect my weapon from you. You steal my equipment, I won't draw. I must feel my life is about to be over. Because at the end of the day, I will be sued, arrested, and could end up in court via a good lawyer or prosecutor. If I know, deep down, that I was in threat of being killed, I'll take the prison sentence so I see my family.

Life isn't fair. Neither are shootouts.

 

Yes, you are 100% correct. I dove off in to local politics which I guess could be a little misleading on a trucking forum. You make a good point that, being a trucker, the episode is more than likely to happen out of town and the perpetrator could very well be a local. That's going to equal a lot more scrutiny for you.

 

I understand. That's why I stated in most cases. Because in most cases, you will be arrested if you kill someone. At the very least, you will be detained, and most states that means cuffs in the immediate aftermath. In Tennessee, a relatively gun friendly state, you are arrested on the spot. I know of no cases where it didn't happen.

And lawsuits will happen, as you said, nearly 100% of the time.

Word to the wise, don't give up your rights to the government, be prepared to kill if you draw, and make sure at the end of the day you see your family, whether that be from a jail cell or at home.

 

I think it was in Texas a few years ago, a guy looked out his window and saw someone breaking into his neighbors house (who he knew were gone on a trip).
So he grabbed his hunting rifle, opened the window, shot the guy, called the cops, and went back to the game.

They asked him some questions, thanked him for his service to the community, and left. Lol

But most places it is a lot messier than that...

 

Most people believe the south is the best for gun owners. Even Texas, and usually, it's not the case.

If I kill someone, I hope I'm in Arizona. Pretty much the best gun friendly state there is. Either that, or a state like Kentucky. Tennessee, contrary to popular opinion, isn't all that gun friendly. Is there worse? Oh yea, but it's nowhere near the best.

Texas is gun friendly, but they've got some screwed up hand gun laws. I can carry an AR15 on my back, but not an open carry hand gun.

The nation should recognize, for truckers or not, open carry of any type of weapon at any time. I only have a small caveat for violent felons.

And I never open carry. I don't see the point in scaring ignorant gun people or mothers in a super market. I also don't see the point in advertising to criminals "I'm a threat, kill me first." Although, I understand the right, and agree with it.

 

I said arrested 100% of the time. That maybe incorrect, but man, id still say 95% of the time. Maybe if you know someone in law enforcement, the prosecutors, or the governer I.E. Small town etc.

To make it short, if you kill someone, under any circumstance, expect to be arrested.

Not that I agree. I don't.

 

Funny, how those who are from typically anti-gun states or highly left-wing concentrated areas always use these two words to describe someone who exercises their 2nd amendment rights.

I live in a moderately small town in the south where probably more than half the adult population carries a pistol. I guarantee none are "paranoid or scared".

And go figure, it's not gun-fight-at-the-OK-Corral either... there are no shootings, car jackings, armed robberies.

An armed society is a polite society.

 

As I stated above, anyone that thinks the way to peace is through allowing the government to regulate your means of protection, is either a partisan hack or just not very bright (not speaking to the gentlemen above by any means).

It's a brainwashing method used by Western European ideologues. It's been used all over the globe. America is the last stand of resistance to tyrannical governments, and they know it. An unarmed society is a society who cannot negotiate.

And you can't negotiate with a pistol only. There's a reason politicians of this ideology want a ban on "military style weapons", even though "military style weapons AKA "AR15's and AK's" are used in less than two percent of crime. Why do they think that is?

Because the threshold for the people to retaliate isn't with a hand gun. It's with weaponry Similar to that of the government. And before someone says "that's paranoid", research history, and don't be so naive to think history doesn't repeat because you've lived in a free society only in existence for a few hundred years.

Politics and political parties has only existed to form an allience between the people and the government. As our forefathers said, political parties would be the end of the free nation. This is because they knew half the country would buy in to a party of government, and relinquish all rights in the name of "winning".

Wake up America. It's almost over.