What's the most likely place you'll need your firearm

[mightymouse]

This is a hard one to title.
As a kid, everyone had their boogeyman, monster under the bed or closet, something that scared them the most. Something you thought was certainly someday going to get you, ...if you let your guard down.
Now that (most of us... I'm working on it) are grown up, we look at the world around us and have concluded the world still isn't as safe a place as we'd like, the boogyman is real, and have chosen to arm ourselves against the threats.
After talking to many people I find the reason they carry, keep guns in the bedside table, hidden in the house plants, under the table, in the car etc is as varied as ourselves. Maybe your city's stats, a personal experience.
So what is your biggest concern, the most likely place(s) you believe you would have to use your gun to defend yourself and loved ones?
Home break in, shopping, gas station, walking the dog????
I feel really good about my home and neighborhood, most at ease, not to let my guard down totally by any means. The edges of town where I have to do business, gang infested and low income always high alert, as is anywhere at night as the scum travel more freely. Close second is surprising as I've had three encounters while with family out in the open lands, wilderness areas, no one for miles, but low-lifes looking to take advantage of easy prey. So far all ended well.
Yours?

[olympicmotorcars]

I live close to Little Rock AR. , Pine Bluff AR., and Memphis Tn. all these cities are in the upper tier of dangerous cities in the U.S. depending on which stastical lists you use the exact order varies.

I also go to run down areas of larger cities , such as Dallas, Baton Rouge, St. Louis, Kansas City. etc. in the course of my business.

Could happen at any time .

I was in Birmingham Al. a few weeks ago and my gps directed me off the interstate in one of the worst areas I had ever seen. Razor wire , graffiti, gang bangers (looked like anyway) were everywhere. My wife and I were extremely nervous until we got out of the area.

My wife asked me if I was carrying my Kahr (which I was) and I said "Honey, I would not trade it for a bar of solid gold right now. "

[yqtszhj]

I was in Birmingham Al. a few weeks ago and my gps directed me off the interstate in one of the worst areas I had ever seen. Razor wire , graffiti, gang bangers (looked like anyway) were everywhere. My wife and I were extremely nervous until we got out of the area.

There is no safe area in Jefferson County-Birmingham if you ask me. Just least worse. Stop somewhere else. And definitely don't stop anywhere that you can see high rise buildings, industrial areas, old steel mills, or anywhere that looks more than 20-30 years old. I lived there 20 years ago and it was bad then. It's lots worse now.

[Barth]

I've been asked several times over the years why I carry a gun all the time.
If I knew in advance when and where I would need it,
then I would only carry it at that time and place.

People have had house invasions siting on their couch watching TV in good neighborhood.
Carjackings have happened in broad daylight in a fast food drive through.

There are clearly high crime and high risk places and times to avoid.
But thinking you can impersonate the Amazing Kreskin
and know in advance when you'll need to be armed is dangerous folly.

[Deano]

Good question. I work with a gal who's married to a police officer in town. Just today, I was asking her how often her husband has to respond to an armed home invasion. She called him and asked him. He said almost never, and when he does, it's always on the OTHER side of town. Doesn't mean it can't happen, but where I live, it almost never does. He said the burglars will ring the door bell to see if anyone is home. If no one answers, they head around back and break a window, and steal what they can get away with. One good reason to answer the doorbell if you're home. They (usually) DON'T want to rob houses when you are home. If someone breaks in while you are at home, it means they have already decided they'll kill you if necessary. Not to many of those types where I live.

On the other hand, there's an all night convenience store a couple of blocks away from where I live that I stop at frequently. It's been held up a few times. I think I'm way more likely to need it there.

When I go to the big city for a game or concert, I get a creepy feeling sometimes late at night heading back to the car on a dark street or a parking garage. That's another scenario I think may call for a weapon some day.

I still keep a gun by my bedside. Like someone wiser than me said, you don't decide when you need it.

[TheTman]

I know where you won't need it - A Donut Shop. Just Kidding.

The BTK killer hit 2 houses within a couple miles from me. I live out in the country down the road from and interstate exit, and always worried someone is going to get off there and look for a house to ambush. So I have weapons hidden here and there throughout the house, and a dog that barks when people drive up. Fights can break out anywhere people gather to drink, and spill over into innocent people just walking by. Our most frequent robberies are at liquor stores and quick marts and fast food joints, and cafe's mostly at night. Other than that, most of the crimes seem drug related, so I'm not worried about that, except for some of my prescriptions may have some street value. But I keep them out of sight so visitors don't see anything.
But I sure feel naked when I forget to grab a gun once in awhile when I run down to the quick mart. Probably should throw a CC gun in my trunk for those times I forget. In fact I just wrapped my snubby in a plastic bag with a couple of silica packs, put it inside a gun rug and hid it in a box full of stuff I carry in my trunk.

[clever alias]

Short answer: EVERYWHERE. Those who would do you harm respect no geographical boundaries.

[kerby9mm]

I live in a near to Detroit suburb amd it doesn't matter what happened yesterday or in all the days past there is today and tomorrow that something will happen here. The only place I don't carry is a no-carry zone and sometimes make exception to that.

[Yogi 117]

Short answer: EVERYWHERE. Those who would do you harm respect no geographical boundaries.

+1 to EVERYWHERE! Including in & around the house when at home, always armed! Certain parts of town just call for more powerful & additional rounds! Like Deano said, we don't choose when & where we might need it!

[downtownv]

Philadelphia the city of brotherly love

[Bawanna]

Most likely place you'll need it is the first place you don't have it. I think Murphy has a lot of control in this area.

[Infidel proud]

Don't know when or where the unthinkable may happen, always armed, always alert...prepared for as much as I can as often as I can...

[Bill K]

I've been mugged several times when I lived in NYC housing projects (Lilian Wald and then Woodside projects). Getting into trouble was just a part of growing up in city housing. I thank God that my summers were spent in then rural Oxford, CT.

Any place, anywhere and anytime...

April of 2010 I used my carry gun to prevent getting stabbed... In broad daylight, during the noon hour and in one of the "nicest" New Haven, CT neighborhoods! That year New Haven, CT was ranked as the 4th (by FBI statistics) in a list of the 10 most violent cities. I believe I saw where in 2011 it dropped to number 14.

[Snidely Whiplash]

Remember the TV ad where the husband is sitting at the breakfast table reading the paper while drinking a cup of coffee (at least that's what I recall), not paying attention to what the wife is saying? She asks him one of THE QUESTIONS: "Does this dress make my butt look big?" The husband, on automatic pilot with regard to paying attention to the wife's chatter, replies, "You betcha."

THAT is the most dangerous place I could ever be. Even my Kahr CM9 wouldn't save me.

[downtownv]

Camden NJ is a great place to practice your readiness skills!