I do carry an extra mag when I carry my 1911. (Officer's model) It's not just to have spare ammo, though. If you have some malf, much of the time it's usually going to be magazine related so you just pop in the mag that works and you're good.
I liked this reply in the comments:
The greatest threat to Freedom is censorship.
It didn't start with Ghettos.
It started with one party controlling the media
One party controlling the message
One party deciding what is truth
One party censoring speech and silencing opposition
One party...
Where does that come from? This enshrining of "the law is the law" and putting it on a pedestal like that and thinking we're morally upright for simply obeying a speed limit? Thomas Jefferson said we should ALWAYS question our laws and "if it's unjust, it's not only right that we disobey it, we...
All kidding aside, I understand the point of speed kills and the public safety aspect of law enforcement and I DO appreciate those efforts. And anybody that cant spot a police car by just the make and maodel, the tires and the spotlight on the side sitting off the highway where there's NO...
I said this would happen when they made the "cashless" tolls. Said the govt would start complaining about "fare-dodging" and work out some new way to squeeze more money out of us who pay to fix a problem they created.
Seriously, it probably is safer from theft. I dont want any tech companies having any sort of access to my account though. When we start the citizen score system in America, they'll probably pull a Canada and shut freeze your purchasing power if you aint woke enough.
I remember giving up some freedoms for "9/11 style safety". TSA misses what.... 89% of fake bombs going onto airplanes? Chiefs of police arent cops, they're politicians.