> Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yes, but many offices don't allow handguns inside, even if locked in a > case or backpack. > If people feel the risk is high enough, they could carry concealed. The number of non-governmental places which require staff to go a metal detector is miniscule.
Check http://www.packing.org for state level discussion of regulations. > (If someone says that escape from a building may be difficult AND > getting home may be impaired, I would say this is piling unlikelihood > on unlikelihood. Not something I am going to carry emergency supplies > for. > Except when it happens - remember that within hours of the WTC attack, all the bridges and tunnels to Manhattan were closed to private cars *in both directions*, and remained that way for several days. I'm sure that some of the WTC escapees found themselves stranded in Manhattan, with their cars (and any bugout gear therein) crushed under the wreckage (there was a *big* parking lot underground at the WTC). Peter Trei
