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Answering anonymously due to where I now work and live, and due to the people following me on Quora whom I have not “come out of the closet” to yet about either my gun ownership or the fact that I carry daily. To the best of my knowledge, neither they nor my employers over the last few years had a clue that I carried a firearm daily.Yes, and yes. I have carried a firearm on a daily basis since I was 19. At first, just an M16 while in the military, and then when returning from overseas deployments I obtained my concealed carry permit in Texas. There was a lot of crime around the military base, much of it committed by other current or former soldiers.According to this link, I lived in one of the top 10 most dangerous cities in Texas:Killeen Makes List Of Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities In TexasGetting my permit entailed some paperwork, a background check, fingerprinting, range qualification, and a solid 8 hours covering in intensive detail exactly what I could and could not do with my gun, where I could and couldn’t carry, likely consequences for abuse, and fairly thorough introductions to the laws covering all of that. After mailing in everything, a few weeks later I received my Texas Concealed Weapon Permit which looked basically like a driver’s license with all my info on it, but instead of “Class C M1” or anything it just said I was authorized to carry semi-automatic handguns or revolvers. I carried a full-size Kimber TLE II 1911-style .45 ACP day in, day out. Eventually I got tired of the weight and bulk in the hot sun all day and switched to carrying a Glock 26 sub-compact 9mm. That was my first Glock, and I became a fan of the simplicity, light weight, higher round count (12 rounds instead of 8), and cheaper price ($400 vs $850+ for the Kimber).I was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas for 4.5 years. And in late 2009, just as we were returning from my second deployment, Major Nidal Hasan decided to commit mass murder of his fellow soldiers in a building right across the parking lot from me. I have a friend who jokes around about how smoking saved his life - he had just stepped outside the building to light a cigarette when the shooting started.Unfortunately, due to the laws, even trained soldiers are not allowed to carry loaded firearms on the base, unless they are Military Police, CID, or CIs. The facility Hasan shot up was the building where soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan go through medical re-screening, psychiatric screening, etc for re-entry to state-side life. In other words, every single soldier in that building was used to carrying a firearm…and they could not defend themselves. It took several minutes for the MPs to arrive and stop him. I had several other friends and a few soldiers from my unit who were in the building at the time and escaped mostly without injury by hiding and running and luck.This experience closely echoes Dr. Suzanna Hupp’s experience of having experience carrying a weapon but being denied the opportunity to do so when she most needed it. Dr. Hupp had a gun she normally carried in her purse, but Texas law at the time did not allow her to carry it into a restaurant, so she left it in her car. While she ate lunch with her parents, a crazed man drove his vehicle through the restaurant window and then began shooting customers at random. Dr. Hupp had an opportunity to shoot the man, and stop his rampage, but did not have her weapon on her as it was in her car - and had to watch both her parents die in her arms. This incident, which led to her becoming an outspoken advocate for expanding concealed carry rights and boosting a career in politics, also took place in Killeen - the same city I lived in.After leaving military service and returning to my native California, I pursued and obtained my concealed carry permit here. By this time, I had added another Glock to carry in a larger caliber, since California has a magazine limit of 10 rounds. So I figured if I can only carry 10, I’m going to carry the biggest rounds I can. I enrolled in college, and pursuant to California law at the time, legally carried on campus while completing two degrees in Business and Computer Science. I was all too aware of the increase in school shootings, and in fact we had a brief scare on my campus once where someone called in that they had spotted someone with a gun (I got texts from friends asking if I’d let my shirt ride up or something, but it was in a different building). The school went on lockdown, a building was evacuated and searched right next to the one I was in, but they didn’t find anyone / anything. Still, it gave me a small measure of relief that if it did happen, I would at least have a fighting chance and not be forced to jump out of a 4th floor window and attempt to scale down the side of the building to escape. It took campus police and city police over 5 minutes to respond, and the campus police are less than a few hundred yards away from the building that went on lockdown.There is a saying “when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.” While 5 minutes may not seem like a long time, and in fact there is another Quora poster from NYC who answered this question with a story of their own when they had to call police, I would ask readers to consider a UFC fight. Each round is 5 minutes long, and with merely hands and fists people are knocked out and in some cases maimed - and that’s with the protections of rules and gloves, not a streetfight or school shooting.I continue to carry because I trust my own extensive training, comfort, and familiarity with my gun over that of anyone else’s. I continue to carry because while our society as a whole has gotten safer, there’s always that chance that I may be targeted as someone’s next victim. While in college, there were nearly weekly muggings of students - mostly engineering and computer science students. If you think about it, it makes a certain amount of sense. Engineers and Computer Science students are among the few majors required to bring laptops to and from school every day. We’re also largely a population of physically weaker (generally, average, stereotypical, etc) nerds. So easy target + guarantee of loot = prime target to mug. I live in the San Francisco bay area, and encounter violence on a weekly basis. Not directly, mind you, but that’s sort of part of the problem - it’s never directly until it is, and if you’re unarmed then, it’s too late to try and arm yourself. An example would be a neighbor called me around midnight to say his car had died at Safeway a few blocks away and could I come help with jumper cables. As we were jumping his car and chatting, a man came sprinting across the parking lot at us, ran right past my car, and jumped the fence at the end of the lot. Keep in mind, the lot was fairly deserted, and there were no other cars within 50 feet of us. He ran close enough I could have tripped him, but didn’t intervene just stepped behind my car as both my neighbor and I watched him run off and jump the fence. Not a second later a Sheriff’s car pulled into the parking lot and began sweeping the spotlight around and I put 2 and 2 together and flagged her down. I pointed her in the right direction and she took off. I’m not sure if the suspect was armed or not. I don’t know why he ran at my car at first - perhaps to carjack me and use it as a getaway vehicle, and he was only deterred when he realized there were two of us and one of him? My neighbor had been just sitting in his car while we chatted but stood up and got out when the guy got close to us. Did I pull my gun out the whole time? No. Am I glad I had the option if things had gone south? Absolutely.Carrying a gun is like having a spare tire or a fire extinguisher. Sure, you can call 911 and wait for the fire department to show up, or call AAA and wait on the side of the road for 45 minutes till they arrive to give you a tow to the nearest repair shop. However, you put yourself at greater risk for longer time if you do that. The side of a freeway is not a safe place to hang out. Small fires can turn into big ones if you let it grow and depend on someone else for your safety. I carry for the exact same reason as I have a spare tire - I hope to hell I never once have to use it, but if it ever comes down to it, I’ll be glad I had it.I’m turning 33 in a few months. That will mark 14 years of carrying a firearm daily, in 5 different countries, and 3 different states. I’ve never once had to even pull it out to deter an attacker, and I hope to hell it stays that way.

NOOOOOOO. You are talking to a military romance scammer. I received an email from the US Army that directly answers your question that is pasted below please keep reading.I believe you are the victim of a military Romance Scam whereas the person you are talking to is a foreign national posing as an American Soldier claiming to be stationed overseas on a peacekeeping mission. That's the key to the scam they always claim to be on a peacekeeping mission.Part of their scam is saying that they have no access to their money that their mission is highly dangerous.If your boyfriend girlfriend/future husband/wife is asking you to do the following or has exhibited this behavior, it is a most likely a scam:Moves to private messaging site immediately after meeting you on Facebook or SnapChat or Instagram or some dating or social media site. Often times they delete the site you met them on right after they asked you to move to a more private messaging siteProfesses love to you very quickly & seems to quote poems and song lyrics along with using their own sort of broken language, as they profess their love and devotion quickly. They also showed concern for your health and love for your family.Promises marriage as soon as he/she gets to state for leave that they asked you to pay for.They Requests money (wire transfers) and Amazon, iTune ,Verizon, etc gift cards, for medicine, religious practices, and leaves to come home, internet access, complete job assignments, help sick friend, get him out of trouble, or anything that sounds fishy.The military does provide all the soldier needs including food medical Care and transportation for leave. Trust me, I lived it, you are probably being scammed. I am just trying to show you examples that you are most likely being connned.Below is an email response I received after I sent an inquiry to the US government when I discovered I was scammed. I received this wonderful response back with lots of useful links on how to find and report your scammer. And how to learn more about Romance Scams.Right now you can also copy the picture he gave you and do a google image search and you will hopefully see the pictures of the real person he is impersonating. this doesn't always work and take some digging. if you find the real person you can direct message them and alert them that their image is being used for scamming.Good Luck to you and I'm sorry this may be happening to you. please continue reading the government response I received below it's very informative.   You have contacted an email that is monitored by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. Unfortunately, this is a common concern. We assure you there is never any reason to send money to anyone claiming to be a Soldier online. If you have only spoken with this person online, it is likely they are not a U.S. Soldier at all. If this is a suspected imposter social media profile, we urge you to report it to that platform as soon as possible. Please continue reading for more resources and answers to other frequently asked questions:  How to report an imposter Facebook profile: Caution-https://www.facebook.com/help/16... < Caution-https://www.facebook.com/help/16... >   Answers to frequently asked questions:  - Soldiers and their loved ones are not charged money so that the Soldier can go on leave.  - Soldiers are not charged money for secure communications or leave.  - Soldiers do not need permission to get married.  - Soldiers emails are in this format: john.doe.mil@mail.mil < Caution-mailto: john.doe.mil@mail.mil > anything ending in .us or .com is not an official email account.  - Soldiers have medical insurance, which pays for their medical costs when treated at civilian health care facilities worldwide – family and friends do not need to pay their medical expenses.  - Military aircraft are not used to transport Privately Owned Vehicles.  - Army financial offices are not used to help Soldiers buy or sell items of any kind.  - Soldiers deployed to Combat Zones do not need to solicit money from the public to feed or house themselves or their troops.  - Deployed Soldiers do not find large unclaimed sums of money and need your help to get that money out of the country.  Anyone who tells you one of the above-listed conditions/circumstances is true is likely posing as a Soldier and trying to steal money from you.  We would urge you to immediately cease all contact with this individual.  For more information on avoiding online scams and to report this crime, please see the following sites and articles:   This article may help clarify some of the tricks social media scammers try to use to take advantage of people: Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/61432/< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/61432/>   CID advises vigilance against 'romance scams,' scammers impersonating Soldiers  Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/180749 < Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/180749 >   FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center: Caution-http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx< Caution-http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx>   U.S. Army investigators warn public against romance scams: Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/130...< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/130...>   DOD warns troops, families to be cybercrime smart -Caution-http://www.army.mil/article/1450...< Caution-http://www.army.mil/article/1450...>   Use caution with social networking  Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/146...< Caution-https://www.army.mil/article/146...>    Please see our frequently asked questions section under scams and legal issues. Caution-http://www.army.mil/faq/ < Caution-http://www.army.mil/faq/ > or visit Caution-http://www.cid.army.mil/ < Caution-http://www.cid.army.mil/ >.  The challenge with most scams is determining if an individual is a legitimate member of the US Army. Based on the Privacy Act of 1974, we cannot provide this information. If concerned about a scam you may contact the Better Business Bureau (if it involves a solicitation for money), or local law enforcement. If you're involved in a Facebook or dating site scam, you are free to contact us direct; (571) 305-4056.   If you have a social security number, you can find information about Soldiers online at Caution-https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/sc... < Caution-https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/sc... > . While this is a free search, it does not help you locate a retiree, but it can tell you if the Soldier is active duty or not.  If more information is needed such as current duty station or location, you can contact the Commander Soldier's Records Data Center (SRDC) by phone or mail and they will help you locate individuals on active duty only, not retirees. There is a fee of $3.50 for businesses to use this service. The check or money order must be made out to the U.S. Treasury. It is not refundable. The address is:  Commander Soldier's Records Data Center (SRDC) 8899 East 56th Street Indianapolis, IN 46249-5301 Phone: 1-866-771-6357  In addition, it is not possible to remove social networking site profiles without legitimate proof of identity theft or a scam. If you suspect fraud on this site, take a screenshot of any advances for money or impersonations and report the account on the social networking platform immediately.  Please submit all information you have on this incident to Caution-www.ic3.gov < Caution-http://www.ic3.gov > (FBI website, Internet Criminal Complaint Center), immediately stop contact with the scammer (you are potentially providing them more information which can be used to scam you), and learn how to protect yourself against these scams at Caution-http://www.ftc.gov < Caution-http://www.ftc.gov > (Federal Trade Commission's website)

Booked flight ticket isn’t one of the requirements when applying for a Visitor Visa for Canada but it is highly encouraged to submit one to prove your purpose of travel. You basically need the following documents:1) Valid passport. With a remaining one year validity. Scan the bio-page;2) Duly accomplished Form IMM5257. This is the Application for Visitor Visa Form. Fill it out digitally and truthfully. (This works on Internet Explorer and the latest signNow version);3) Duly accomplished Form 5645. This requires your Family Information which shall also be filled out digitally;4) 2 passport size photos (35mm x 45mm). Must be photographed within the last six months. See complete photo specifications here;5) Proof of income/financial capability. This shall include Bank Certificate/Bank Statement within the last 4 months, Certificate of Employment and Income Tax Return (for employees, self-employed and digital nomads), School Records such as Enrollment Receipt/Certificate (For Students), Business Permits (for business owners), as well as Condominium/Car/Land Titles (if any).6) Affidavit of Support. This only applies if somebody else is paying for your trip. Also, attach his/her proof of financial capability;7) Travel history. Scanned copy of your visas (whether valid or expired) as well as entry/exit stamps. Make sure just to put everything in 1 file; AND8) Purpose of Travel. Your flight and hotel reservations and day-to-day itinerary.Check out this article to know more: How To Apply For A Canadian Tourist Visa

Immigrating to Canada turned out to not entirely be what I expected.Part 1:I landed in Toronto-Pearson International Airport (YYZ) this past Monday afternoon, excited to begin my yearlong journey as an AI Resident at Uber ATG. Everything mostly went according to plan initially - I got off the plane, filled out the customs form, told the border officer I was applying for a temporary work permit, and went into the immigration room. Here the wait time was longer, but I waited ~40 min and got called up by an officer. Then I gave him all the necessary materials to process. After ~10 more minutes, he told me to go to the cashier to pay the work permit fee.The cashier and I had a short conversation. Then he asked me what I’ll be doing. “I’ll be doing AI research on self-driving cars,” I said.“Didn’t those self-driving cars kill someone a while back? And you’re bringing them into Canada?”“Well…”“I swear to god, if one of these self-driving cars comes and hits my house…my car…my family…my cat….I’m coming after you.”He also said some other things that I’d rather not repeat. He said all of this in a laughing manner so I laughed along but in the back of my mind I was thinking “Does he actually know where I live I just got here I don’t wanna die.”I took the receipt and went back to the immigration officer processing my application. As I’m standing there I see the cashier come out of his office, around the corner to where the immigration officer is sitting, and then point to me: “Do you see this fucking guy? This fucking guy is working on self-driving cars - he’s gonna kill us all.” They both laughed. “Remember, if you hit anybody in Canada, I’m coming after you,” the cashier repeated.I’m not the type of person who’s easily offended and to be honest the whole situation was pretty funny (I don’t actually feel threatened), but still that conversation was a bit strange. It was not a conversation I expected to have with Canadian immigration. Anyways, I got my work permit and headed out to the arrivals floor, and that was that! Right?Nope. While weird, my interactions with the officers didn’t cause me any actual inconvenience. But my immigration experience wasn’t over.Part 2:I woke up bright and early the next morning at my Airbnb and went down to the nearest Service Canada center at 8:45am to apply for my Social Insurance Number (SIN), which is similar to the SSN in the US. I need to have a SIN for basically everything involved with a long-term stay in Canada: getting paid, opening a bank account, signing a lease, paying taxes. I waited half an hour until my number was called, and then I went to the desk of the service rep and gave my work permit and passport.Within 30 seconds she told me that the country of birth on my work permit was incorrect. I double checked my permit and indeed it was. Somehow the immigration officer had filled it in wrong, even though the country of birth was listed right there on my passport. “Unfortunately you’ll have to get your work permit revised, and we can’t give you a SIN right now,” she said. Jesus.There was a number that I could call in the back of my permit for more information. I tried to call with my cell phone and got an automated message saying something like, “Your number is blocked because it’s not from a recognized area.” My phone plan had free roaming in Canada, but my number was still a US number. So I went back to the Service Canada center and asked if I could borrow the landline. Luckily they had one available. I sat in the chair and called the number again. After spending a bunch of time navigating through the phone menu, I finally found the number to speak to a human. “There are too many calls in the queue right now, please call back at a later time.” I waited 5 minutes and called again. “There are too many calls in the queue right now, please call back at a later time.”“Do you need any help?” The lady who assisted me asked. She picked up the phone and called the number for the third time. Somehow this time it finally got through, and she handed the phone back to me. Estimated wait time: 30 minutes. I sat for 30 minutes in this cramped chair, clutching the landline in the Service Canada office, waiting for a human to respond.Finally someone picked up. I explained to him my situation.“The only way you can make a change to your work permit is by mailing it in,” he said gruffly.“Um ok. How long would that take to process?”“1 month.”“1 month?? Are you serious (are you fucking kidding me)?? Can I not just go back to the airport?”“It won’t work.”“Are you sure?”“They can’t fix the work permits there. You can try, but it won’t work.”I hung up the phone. I was starting to panic. It was now 10:45–11am, and I had planned to open a bank account / start viewing apartments later that day; all those plans had vaporized. I double checked the web instructions for mailing the work permit in. In order to even mail in the work permit, I had to print and fill out two other forms and send everything in an envelope. How did postage even work in Canada? Also if it took 1 month for me to get the work permit fixed, I wasn’t even sure if I’d be allowed to be employed at that point. The research program was only supposed to last 1 year, and this 1-month delay would cut into that substantially. How was I going to live in this country? Was I going to be shipped back to the US?I frantically emailed my recruiters telling them about my situation. I then remembered that the immigration firm Uber partnered with, who helped me apply for the work permit, left the contact info of one of the lawyers, so I immediately called the number. Both times he didn’t pick up, and the second time I left a voicemail. In the meantime, I was pondering my backup options. One option was to actually mail in the work permit, but that was less than ideal. Moreover I didn’t entirely trust what the human operator said; it seemed ridiculous to me that the border agents couldn’t give me a revised work permit, given that they created the initial copy for me. I was contemplating going back to the airport to speak to the border agents anyways.5 minutes later, the lawyer called me back.“Go back to the airport to get your work permit fixed,” he said. “We’ll work everything out.”Oh my god. Something in his calm, assured voice told me everything was going to be alright.I walked out of Service Canada and took an Uber straight to YYZ (these Ubers aren’t cheap either, they’re about $50 CAD each) to the departures hall of Terminal 1. I followed the lawyer’s instructions on the phone to go to the back of the terminal, behind the bathroom, around a few corners, and finally to a metal door with a buzzer. I called the buzzer and said I needed to get my work permit fixed. The immigration agent let me in and told me to take the elevator down one floor.While the departures hall was bright, modern, and lit with sunshine, this room I stepped into was dim, cramped, and small. I told the border agent behind the glass barrier that I needed to get the country of birth on my work permit fixed.“I’m not sure this is possible to fix here,” he said. “Have you tried calling the number in the back?”“Yes I did.”“Well I don’t know if we can help.”“But I was on the phone with our immigration firm and they told me I could come here. Would you be able to take a look and just see if it’s possible? Please?”I was practically begging at this point. He took my work permit somewhat reluctantly and went into a back room. I waited. And waited for about 40 minutes.Finally, a separate border agent came up to the glass window. “We’re on the phone with [the immigration firm],” she told me. “We’ll try and get it fixed.”Thank god. I waited another 30–40 minutes and finally the agent came back with a new work permit. “You’re all set now.” I checked the new permit and indeed, the country of birth field was now correct. I then spent some time looking over every other detail so I didn’t have to go through the same experience again. I breathed a giant sigh of relief.By the time I got back to the Service Canada office, it was around 2pm. I immediately booked another appointment and managed to get my SIN that same day, though I didn’t have enough time afterwards to make an appointment to open a bank account before the bank closed. But that wasn’t a big deal. I was just incredibly relieved and happy that I would actually be able to work in this country.There are a few people that I wanted to thank. Thank you, Uber’s immigration firm, for helping me get my work permit revised in a timely fashion. They essentially helped me bypass a ton of official government bureaucracy; I’m honestly not sure what the border agents would have done if I had just shown up at the airport without the firm’s help. Thank you border agents for actually helping to revise my permit on the spot. Thank you Uber HR for responding quickly and helping to loop the relevant people in. Thank you to the service Canada rep who asked how I was doing and helped to give me advice. And thank you to the two Uber drivers to/from the airport who I was venting to.Moral of the story? I’m not sure, but maybe double check that your papers are correct right after you get them from immigration, because getting them fixed is a huge pain. I was incredibly fortunate that I was able to work with an immigration firm, and I understand that many others are not so lucky. I was also fortunate that I had not yet started work, and so had ample time to get set up - figuring that out while working would have created an additional mental burden and taken much longer. I’m still befuddled that a small mistake by an immigration officer can seriously affect your ability to live and work here if you don’t have the right means to tackle it.

I wrote about the independent-contractor-vs-employee issue last year, see http://nctaxpro.wordpress.com/20...Broadly speaking, you are an employee when someone else - AKA the employer - has control over when and where you work and the processes by which you perform the work that you do for that individual. A DJ or bartender under some circumstances, I suppose, might qualify as an independent contractor at a restaurant, but the waitstaff, bus help, hosts, kitchen aides, etc. almost certainly would not.There's always risk in confronting an employer when faced with a situation like yours - my experience is that most employers know full well that they are violating the law when they treat employees as independent contractors, and for that reason they don't tolerate questions about that policy very well - so you definitely should tread cautiously if you want to keep this position. Nonetheless, I think you owe it to yourself to ask whether or not the restaurant intends to withhold federal taxes from your checks - if for no other reason than you don't want to get caught short when it comes to filing your own return, even if you don't intend to challenge the policy.

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