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Originally posted by sanscritt
I respect everyone's opinion and I can understand what you are saying, but how do you know that when you leave the house without your firearm that this time you won't need it?
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Well, there is no way to know, of course, but there are times when I know NOT to take the gun. Examples being taking my Mother onto the local Army base so she can go the doctor, or if I know that I am going to a bar.
My situation is a bit odd in that I drive quite a bit, and range over a wide area through various types of areas including urban, suburban, rural, industrial, and all levels of danger that you see in my locale. If I am going solely to an industrial site, I really doubt that I'll have any real need for the piece. If I am going to a neighbourhood with higher-than-average incidence of crime, I had better carry.
In general, I don't carry. This means that I don't have the weapon on my person. My job (insurance adjuster and estimator) is such that I have to crawl under vehicles, over obstacles, and various other physical maneuvers that make concealed carry problematic. Thus the gun is not on me. It is, however, in the vehicle at all times (well, it's locked up at night, of course). So perhaps I was being too precise in saying I don't usually carry.
Make more sense?