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Originally Posted by Plan9
As an aside, my favorite type of disdain for the OP's CCW situation is that of "There are children in this house!" That's funny; I don't recall my gun ever jumping out of the holster to kill a kid. In fact, I don't recall guns ever doing anything on their own.
The opposite argument would be that since you're most likely in a suburban home in the whitey-white northwest United States, you could probably do without concealed carry completely when in residential areas.
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Well I already said my aversion to children and guns being in the same area is on a subconscious level. The gun of course would be completely safe in the holster covering the trigger with the safety on as I already stated. It's an illogical fear on my part sort of like standing too close to a microwave.
Yes most of the areas I frequent are in "whitey-white" areas. However white people have been known to commit crimes just like any other race.
The street my parents live on has had 2 burglaries since the beginning of the year and one car prowling. Granted the burglaries happened in the middle of the day when no one was home and the smash and grab car prowling was in the middle of the night, but maybe the situation will be different in the future. Again this is in a "whitey-white" neighborhood.
Also about 10 years ago I was at my grandparents' house with my little brother and my aunt. At the time I was just a teenager, maybe 18 or so. I was sitting in another room watching TV when I heard the front door open and close. I figured it was just my grandparents coming back from the grocery store. My little brother who was probably 9 at the time comes into the room where I am watching TV and says "Someone just came inside the house and is talking to Auntie and they're scary." My grandparents often left the front door unlocked since this is the "whitey-white northwest" Plan9 describes. So I get up and go into the kitchen area where the front door opens up to and there is this weird person who is very clearly a meth-user (Washington state had a huge meth problem a few years back) standing there inside the house. I think it was a female but I am not quite sure to this day. It was very clear my aunt hadn't invited this person in. The person said they were lost and just wanted some bus money, but really it looked like they were sizing up the situation to see if they could get more than that. My Aunt being the smart person she is and not wanting to escalate the situation went and got a few bucks out of her purse while I watched the meth person and then gave the money to meth person. The meth person slowly looked around and then left.
If I had not been there I am not sure what would have happened to my little brother and aunt.
If the meth head had been armed in any way, I might not have been able to stop them from doing whatever they wanted since at the time of course I wasn't armed due to my age.
Before that incident and after that incident my grandparents' house was completely safe (hence why the front door was unlocked).
Yes this is only one event which is statistically insignificant given the thousands of days in my life where nothing bad happened.
But it is one reason why I would prefer to be armed everywhere, because even in the "whitey-white northwest" sometimes bad things happen.