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Ah. Heh, I grew up in a military family untill recently. ( I moved out and in with my girl friend.) After spending nearly 16 years with my dad...no one on earth unless they have a gun in their hands can scare me. xd

yeah, i'm probably going to carry a knife and a gun when i'm legally old enough and not in a place where having one is a felony. i have taken karate for a while, but i would rather have a weapon because you can't block a bullet that easily.

which brings to mind a quote from Red Vs. Blue, paraphrasing of course, "sarge, you're pretty tough, but i don't think even YOU can deflect hundreds of armor-piercing rounds using only your face."

I'll stick with my chain thank you. I can wrap it around his wrsit our neck and pull him into the counter

Not trying to sound to critical, but, honestly, if someone ever robs you or the establishment you are working at, by the name of God, just give them the money. Don't try to be a hero. Because you'll just die, and for what? A bit of money? A few credit cards you can just cancel when you get home? Maybe a large sum of insured money at a business?

And if you are hell bent on being able to protect yourself, and don't get me wrong, that's a good thing, just not against gun-toting robbers, don't think you're badass just because you've got a chain on your pants. Like I said, that takes too long to prep, and it's too noisy; Put some time into martial arts, and you won't need any time to prep your weapon because you become your weapon.

The idiots around here. Its a liberal state, so gun stores are few and far between, and pawn shop don't sell any kind of fire arm. The most you get is a bat or a knife. And most of the gun crimes happen in St. Louis. The idea of privatly owning a gun around here is a bit taboo.

I never said it was attached to my pants. I don't carrey wallet chains, my pokets are deep enough so that if some one tried to take my wallet they would be stickign half there arm down my pants to get to it. Its a dog leash, and I'm sure I said that before. I carrey it shortened. The leash end is attached to the metal loop that connects the chain to the leather strap. I'm sure I said that too. And considerign the size of my pockets, the chains is reletively quite when I pull it out.

I assumed nothing about you, unless you count the reasonable assumption that normally people don't carry around dog chains just for kicks.

Actually, you went off on me before too, and I'll paraphrase what I said before: If people didn't make certain assumptions about other people, and everyone worried about getting every tiny detail perfectly correct, nothing would ever get done because we would all spend an hour asking questions about who the person is, and what their situation is, just so we can ask them the time of day. I mean, and here comes some sarcasm, for all you know the man has a terrible fear of time. Or maybe he doesn't carry a watch and gets really defensive when someone asks. So you'd have to ask him his entire family history, just so you can be certain you aren't going to offend him.

Yes, that's extreme. But come on. You can't expect people to look at you and go, "Oh, well I don't want to assume that the chain he's carrying around is for a wallet rather then just because he likes the feeling of a heavy chain in his pocket. He might get upset," or, "Oh, well, I don't want to assume that by 'church,' he means the place of congregation for members of any one given religion. He might mean only Christians. Or only Catholics. I better ask before I reply."

Seriously. One of these days I'm going to show you just how long it would take to reply to one of your posts if I asked about everything, to make sure I'm not making any incorrect assumptions.

Also if you did use it, you might get in trouble for carrying a concealed weapon. Hadn't thought about that.