Posted on 05/23/2023 9:46:08 AM PDT by CFW
If you’re a regular reader here at Bearing Arms, you’ve seen or heard me talk about Uber and Lyft’s driver (and passenger) disarmament policies that force contracted drivers to go unarmed in order to stay in the good graces of the companies. Even when drivers have been forced to use their gun in self-defense, they’ve been quickly cut loose from Uber and Lyft because they dared to have their legally-carried firearm with them while they’re doing a dangerous job.
Given the large number of carjackings, murders, and other targeted crimes against rideshare drivers, I find it unconscionable that these companies are putting drivers at risk by demanding they get behind the wheel without the means to defend themselves from an attack, and I refuse to use either platform until their policies change.
Admittedly, it’s easier for me to take that stand since I live in a rural area and have little need for a rideshare service to begin with, but I know that there are plenty of other gun owners out there who try to avoid these companies whenever possible.
Now we may soon have another choice, at least for those gun owners and Second Amendment supporters who live in New York and Atlanta. A new rideshare app called Black Wolf has just launched, and company founder Kerry KingBrown says riders can choose to have an armed driver behind the wheel if that’s what they prefer.
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Of course, I hope the company has a seasoned Second Amendment attorney on retainer.
The Uber/Lyft driver I want is the one who won’t freak out if I’m carrying in his ride. And who won’t rat me out if I’m in a blue city or state.
I still pick up hitchhikers and I am right-handed, I usually put my pistol on the left side of my seat but I have never had confidence in that.
Having a gun helps but it isn’t necessarily 100% when dealing with a passenger.
The great advantage about being arms is being incognito about it.
I hope so too.
I have the same thought, driving a vehicle is a vulnerable position, a passenger with a gun or even a knife if he is a dominant physical guy, should be able to rob most armed drivers.
Picking up hitchhikers is extremely dangerous today. This isn’t the 50s or 60s.
Government is flooding the streets with the mentally ill and releasing criminals before their jail term ends and even worse, not prosecuting crimes.
Exactly who is the passenger going to feel protected from by opting for an armed driver ? Pay a premium for exactly what ?
It was dangerous in the 60s for both the hitcher and the driver.
I was thinking the same thing - they specifically request an armed driver and then shoot him/her in the back of the head.
It’s sick to think about, but criminals are sick. I prefer that no one knows.
“I still pick up hitchhikers...”
Not me, since the 90s.
“This is a great idea.”
A recent Gallup Poll found that 60 percent of Americans own guns in order to feel safe. According to the FBI and the CDC, roughly 18% of people that have guns are felons. (1 in 5) Another group owning guns are drug users like alcoholics, and recreational drug users. There is no way to determine the stability of these people. But as the number of people that shouldn’t have them grows as the loose cannons come out of the wood work, all you can do is hope the advertised gun on board information is being handled by a responsible and learned gun owner doing the driving. It’s obviously got some good and bad to the situation.
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I still think the bigger danger is the driver, not the hitchhiker.
In other words, the biggest risk is to the person that accepts the ride. What person in their right mind gets in a car with an absolute stranger along the side of a highway? You are entering a lockable lair of a potential predator.
If it is not a ride to the airport, I never leave home without it.
The $50 base rate will doom this enterprise to failure.
I don’t mind a surcharge for an armed driver, but a base rate that’s double what Lyft or Uber charges is not competitive.
It may be an advantage in certain situations.
There is also a tremendous advantage in tactical deterrence.
Why risk a gunfight for a gun worth a couple of hundred dollars?
1) It's not the monetary value of the gun, it is the easy acquiring of a gun by a prohibited person for criminal uses. And
2) It's not a gunfight if you're the driver occupied with traffic and there are three large males in the seat behind you.
True, but it was a cultural thing back then to a much greater degree. Today much higher chance that it’s someone who can’t color inside the lines. I disagree with you here and there but I sure as hell don’t want you attacked by a hitchhiker.
Watch yourself out there!
Depends on the sex. A woman getting in a car with a stranger is certifiably nuts. But today the hitcher is a menace. As someone else pointed out, mental patients wander freely, dope is much worse and more prevalent, and then there is malevolent evil such as blacks who despise you just for being white. Leftists who might like you until you make one small verbal mistake revealing you are the enemy.
Everyone should think as hitchhikers as an extreme risk.
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