Re: Weapon as camping equipment?

["Dorothy Beebe" <dbeebe@plumas.ca.us>]

Ann, I would tend to agree with you about all but one thing...I always
travel with  my CCW permit and weapon.  I never really felt it was necessary
until one night, coming home, and someone passed us (luckily, my husband was
with me) and pointed back at the trailer.  Well, I was out the truck door
and back to check on Elly before he'd even come to a complete stop.
Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with her, but it made me think.  I
usually travel alone over long distances and that's all it would take to get
me to stop--so now I take them.  I've never had a need for it, but its nice
knowing its there.

dorothy & elly
taylorsville
-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Hatfield <keithr@nocdc.bc.ca>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Saturday, February 28, 1998 11:40 PM
Subject: Weapon as camping equipment?


>I think it was Raymond who mentioned to a female ridecamper that it would
>be a good idea to carry a weapon, not that she could expect to use it at an
>endurance ride!
>
>Now isn't that a sad commentary!  I suppose it's true.  The only problem
>with that is one a friend skilled in self defense showed me, I could have
>it taken away from me pronto, being an amateur who was rather relutant to
>use the thing at all.  This was a knife that I thought I was going to carry
>on my hitch hiking travels through Europe many years ago (now, no lectures
>on hitch hiking -this was in another era, in a more innocent age, I think).
> I carried a hatpin-yes, I'm serious, stop laughing, it was on same
>friend's advice.  He said it wouldn't be looked for as a weapon and would
>have considerable effect if used briskly.  Never did have to use it and met
>wonderful people everywhere-well, almost everywhere, Hamburg was one
>exception!
>
>But seriously, it worries me to think that we feel we have to go distance
>riding/camping with horses with weapons, and I wonder if we aren't better
>off not proliferating hand guns, etc. and just watching where we go-
>without weapons.
>
>Ann Hatfield
>