What is your "Every Day Carry" or EDC?

[chilledwarmth]

For me

• Android phone, I have an In Case Of Emergency app with all medical info about me, and contact info for people I'd want emergency services to notify. That one specific app can be accessed without having to unlock the phone

• Glock 19 and spare mag

• Leatherman Wave

• Wallet with ID, credit card, and a bit of money

• Fenix TK15 flashlight

• Protein Bar

• Waterproof notebook and pen

• Lighter

• Keys (car and house)

"It's not considered outrageous here BertrandRussell."

I know it's not. Hence your gun crime stats.

And, surprisingly enough, I worked out what a "daily carry" is. Very entertaining.

Jesus that's scary. I don't mean that rudely at you chilled BTW, it just really is. There is NO WAY I'd be happy with people carrying projectile weaponry around me on a daily basis, I honestly think I'd emigrate.

Nooooooooo Gloria we're cool, honest!

I carry tea not guns, tea I tell you, TEA!

You must have an enormous bag to carry a gun, a torch, a notepad and all the other normal crap which ends up in your bag. Seriously, isn't all that stuff heavy?

I am very under prepared and often will leave the house without my purse...... i am lurking on these boards though and have sorted out some snow kit for the car if that counts?

What is a daily carry? A handbag?

We find that crime isn't as big a problem in places where law abiding people carry Bertrand. It's still not perfect so we try cutting it further by banning certain people from carrying, such as people incapable of "exercising sound judgment". Kacie123 I don't see why you would have a problem with it honestly. But I figure I can understand you because it's not familiar to you. If you are in England then the idea of a civilian carrying a gun daily is going to be so alien to you that you won't understand it. And we are afraid of things we don't understand.You weren't being rude don't worry about it. It would be boring if we all shared the exact same beliefs about everything.

NeededANameChangeAnyway surprisingly it's not as heavy as the list makes it sound/look. A snow kit is good but what do you carry on your person and or in a bag with you every day? Maybe you always carry a notebook and a pen because you're needing to write things down. Or a multitool because you are frequently having to cut or screw things in your job.

Considering the amount of weirdos I meet, the thought of them having access to guns is terrifying. It's why I'd never go to America.

My Daily Carry is a bundle of nappy sacks in my jeans pocket for the dog poo, and my keys. COME AT ME, BRO

I don't call it an EDC but on my person at all times;

Gerber Multitool
Lighter or a flint.
Torch

During the winter I will carry a stove, coffee, tea, sugar, soup, boots, arctic coat, shovel
But that's more about being comfortable if I get stuck for long periods because of bad weather on my commute,
(I know people who have spent over 12 hrs in a freezing car on a closed motorway)

One of my relatives was caught in a similar situation Drew64, a bit shorter duration but it still sucked badly. They were alright though.

If you are in England then the idea of a civilian carrying a gun daily is going to be so alien to you that you won't understand it. And we are afraid of things we don't understand"

Several erroneous assumptions here. You are assuming we have never lived in America or any other country where people "carry" You are assuming we don't understand. You are assuming we are afraid. Wrong on all counts.

OP I'm loving this thread. And my mind is boggling - if all citizens carry guns in the U.S. I applaud the fact there are so few shootings.

I'm not assuming anything, I'm saying that if you live in a country where carrying isn't a thing, then you are going to be unfamiliar and probably not understand it if you encounter it somewhere else. Kacie123 said "There is NO WAY I'd be happy with people carrying projectile weaponry around me on a daily basis", to me that suggested a fear of people around you carrying weapons. There didn't seem to be another explanation, but if there is I'm happy to hear it.

I'm not assuming anything, I'm saying that if you live in a country where carrying isn't a thing, then you are going to be unfamiliar and probably not understand it if you encounter it somewhere else. Kacie123 said "There is NO WAY I'd be happy with people carrying projectile weaponry around me on a daily basis", to me that suggested a fear of people around you carrying weapons. There didn't seem to be another explanation, but if there is I'm happy to hear it.

Medical passport with medication etc details,
keys,
public transport ticket/card,
tissues,
hand sanitiser,
Blackberry with ICE numbers,
driving licence,
tool card (handy credit card sized piece of kit with various tools on it)
pen
diary,
cash and credit cards.

We're a very crowded island. We could carry guns to deal with the tensions to which this gives rise, but we find pointedly ignoring each other a cheaper, less messy option.

ThroughThickAndThin01 I can say for sure that not everyone carries, but it looks like more people carry than do not. But that is just my own observations and I'm just one person in a country of hundreds of millions, so that isn't a definitive survey or anything. There are some places in the US where they have a huge problem with firearms crime. We tend not to have that in places where the good guys are armed, and that's the way we want to keep it.

We find that crime isn't as big a problem in places where law abiding people carry Bertrand

Apart from all the places where people have gone into schools/cinemas/churches and started murdering people.
realises why I avoid the Preppers board

There are some places in the US where they have a huge problem with firearms crime. We tend not to have that in places where the good guys are armed

That 'We' presumably not including black people, who tend to get shot by police and other (white) citizens in circumstances where shooting is not merited?

Chippednailvarnish you've backed up my point. Firearms are not allowed in schools, but we still get school shootings, this should tell you how effective bans are. We can chose to ban things but if criminals are just going to shoot people anyway even though they we've made a law banning them from doing it, the law isn't much comfort to those who have died. We prefer people to have a chance. But like I said it would be boring if we all shared the same beliefs on everything. You clearly have a different idea of how to do things.

This is an argument you are not going to win chilledwarmth although if we were allowed handguns again in the UK I would happily carry one where allowed

Well seen as no one else has said it I will take the slating for the next comment but if the Paris attacks had happened in the US would they have got away with such a large death toll or would someone have stuck a round through there head before they had killed quite so many or had chance to detonate there bombs once there rifles had run out of ammo

My guess is the death toll would have been much lower

MyFavouriteClintonisGeorge I'm not really sure what it is that you're asking. We as in the general public tend not to have a problem with firearms crime when the good guys are armed too. People still get shot but just with less frequency than they have in other places. We basically do all we can to stop criminals accessing weapons without needlessly preventing good guys getting them. I'm not sure if the comment about police was just aimed at the police in general or is a specific shooting which you felt was not justified, as there are incidents of an officer shooting someone which I am not happy with and do not think was justified.

Personally I'm very happy to live with hardly any guns around me, in fact I'd like a world in which everyone had the right to such an environment.

I don't think any minds are likely to be changed on this thread, and I've read many of these types of debates before elsewhere, so I think I'll donate a from my jammie dodger stash.

Oh god. I'm backing off this thread fast. Like hell would everyone being armed stop terrorism.

chilled, thank you for your polite replies. I stand by not wanting people to have guns. I see enough friends and colleagues on a daily basis spill coffee, drop phones, walk into desks etc. None of them are Jason Bournes. I don't want them having the power of life or death in their fingers. You can call that fear if you'd like, yes. I guess I cannot and will never understand your mindset, and hope I never live somewhere with it.

Good luck all with your EDCs everyone, whatever's in them