Its getting harder to travel to Kalifornia

[Magoo541]

Magoo, if SHTF while your in Kalifornia,....FIND A KOREAN GROCERY STORE!!!!!! And tell them you can shoot and if they can spare another firearm....

LOL!  That made my night, thanks!

EDIT: BTW I'm in Santa Clara so I should be okay, just wish I KNEW I'd be okay or have my fate in my own hands.  12 hours today and most likely the rest of the week, the part I'm really dreading, my GM is here on Friday, is followed shortly by my exit. 

[jaybet]

You guys are such weenies... can't leave home without your gun.
My SIL and I stood between the girls and 4 cracked-up french fries down in the PorkChop in San Francisco. We were backed into a storefront with nothing but hand weapons(still hidden) staring these humps down without a word. They turned and walked away.

Granted, where I live in NJ is about as close to living in Dineyland as you could get, but we still get BGs here and there. Real men are ready to fight with no gun, a short-blade knife, a huge set of keys, steel toed workboots, or a squirrel if you have nothing else.
Oh yeah...I almost used Lucy, my favorite strat, to "El Kabong" a guy once, but a fan jumped and thumped him.

Just sort of kidding. You have to be ready, but I would really like to be able to carry here, but I used to not having that. If you are accustomed to that level of preparedness it must be maddening to live without.

[Timothy]

one word...

Shillelagh...

[tombogan03884]

You guys are such weenies... can't leave home without your gun.
My SIL and I stood between the girls and 4 cracked-up french fries down in the PorkChop in San Francisco. We were backed into a storefront with nothing but hand weapons(still hidden) staring these humps down without a word. They turned and walked away.

Granted, where I live in NJ is about as close to living in Dineyland as you could get, but we still get BGs here and there. Real men are ready to fight with no gun, a short-blade knife, a huge set of keys, steel toed workboots, or a squirrel if you have nothing else.
Oh yeah...I almost used Lucy, my favorite strat, to "El Kabong" a guy once, but a fan jumped and thumped him.

Just sort of kidding. You have to be ready, but I would really like to be able to carry here, but I used to not having that. If you are accustomed to that level of preparedness it must be maddening to live without.

They realized you were tourists, Since the mass shooting in  China Town back in the 90's the one thing SF absolutely will not tolerate is any one bothering the tourists. When I was out there in 2 years ONE tourist got robbed, with in a week  a couple of local gang bangers were found dead . SF realized that scaring the tourists not only hurts the "honest" industries, it also cuts into profits from prostitution, illegal gambling, and drug dealing.

[jaybet]

From the looks of them, I'm not so sure tourism was at the top of their priorities. I'd prefer to think that they started doing crack math looking at two pretty large guys with unknown weapons who were obviously sober, obviously not oblivious to their little crack-addled maneuvers, and obviously had something to fight over with a two-woman backup of unknown size and capability. Since we didn't just throw the moneyclip in the air and run, maybe they WERE thinking about the tourism goon squads.  Either way, private enterprise continued and we marched on through their encampment like Chuck Norris through a dojo with nary another glance.

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[Magoo541]

I think Jay hit it on the head.  I'm a green belt in Tae Kwon Do and loved to spar, work on empty hands self defense or the fighting aspect of the martial arts until I started carrying on a regular basis.     I usually carry a flash light that would work well as an impact weapon if need be but it is a far cry from a 45 "flying ashcan" traveling at 900 fps.  I have stayed in condition yellow for the most part down here but I laps every now and then into white but usually in a controlled environment (albeit foreign to me). 

I know I need to get back into the gym and back to empty hands self defense training but I'm in a rut...  Excuses are like * everyone has one and they all stink.