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You're correct.  Not everyone "needs" to carry.  But of course unless they are an exception they have the Constitutional Right to carry.

I agree fully. I am looking at the thread as the "what do you carry in your car for emergency use" - I have other stuff in my car that is just for fun. 

Statistically divergent?  Really?  Do you have the empirical data to make that claim?  I have "needed"  that gun the exact amount of times that a helmet has prevented a serious injury. I and many others treat/think of a gun like Helmets, spare tires, and other implements, as tool, a measure of assistance as when thing don't go as planned.

I have yet to meet a single person that control the future, plan for the unexpected, mitigate where possible and live.  How you get there is your business, but don't question the preparations of ohters.

I have needed my helmet, spare tires, some cash, my cell phone - but again, never needed a gun. Where I live, I do not prepare for earthquakes, but I do have preparations for snowstorms. Right now I have a lot of insurance, but when the kids are done with college and the mortgage paid off, I will carry a lot less, because the possible needs are going to be less (and I don't want to give mrs gearboy any more incentive to "off" me....)

Preparing for things should mean assessing the likelihood of an event occuring, and then taking reasonable steps to accomodate that possibility. I can easily imagine places, as I noted above, where having a gun is a very important and reasonable part of the preparation. Where I live and travel, not so much. No one is telling you not to have a gun. If you think, based on your circumstances, that you need a gun, fine. If you just want to have a gun, that's fine too. But it is not a part of "being prepared for a problem" at that point, anymore than the tennis balls and squeeky toys in the back of my vehicle are for a problem. They are for playing with the dog when we go to the park, and just for my own amusement, not to keep us safe.

In the car?

wow.  just, wow.

For now.  Fine, for now.

Until you're the guy that goes into a blind rage or has a mental breakdown - sweet, you're armed.

If every person in the USA carried a bomb that could level a city block, would you all be safer or would half the city blocks already be leveled?

Stir stir stir stir...

OP : I try and carry a blanket/light/some food as we have to prepare for snow storms but I'm lax about doing it in the city. But after watching videos of people stuck on the road for 4-16 hours, I think I'm going to have to take it more seriously (and with kids too)

dang pot stirrers.

That's the two sides of the equation.  You worry about the potential of a law abiding citizen with a background check and proper (in most cases) weapon training snapping and harming people.  I worry about the non law abiding people who premeditate causing harm to me or others.  Statistically I'm guessing there are a lot more of the latter than the former out there.

I'm not sure what you're getting at with the bomb reference.  I can't throw a city block so I'm thinking that bomb would be little more than a suicide bomb so I most certainly would not feel safer.  

Being "fixed", it would make mrs gearboy a tad suspicious about how I was spending my free time...

Awesome, I see we agree. You must have a better crystal ball than I do.  I don't need a gun, I just have it.  Based on the times I see on here, I stand a better chance of standing my ground than running.

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Is that like slow guys with fancy bikes and aero helmets?

No you aren't!