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Do you spend your day to day life in a place where there's a reasonable possibility a "bad guy" will pull a gun on you? Or do you spend most of your life in middle class/upper middle class suburbs, where there's practically no risk at all?

There are people for instance who work in new orleans but live in the suburbs. When going to work they conceal carry a pistol but at home in the burbs, they don't carry a gun.

Do you carry a gun no matter what and where?

I think the whole point of packing concealed heat is precisely for those unexpected situations. You are approaching the problem from a risk assessment standpoint, which is fine, but the reason people in suburbia may choose to carry isn't necessarily fear--it's preparedness in case the unthinkable happens.

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Posted by Pandy Fackler

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Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:19 am to TbirdSpur2010

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I think the whole point of packing concealed heat is precisely for those unexpected situations. You are approaching the problem from a risk assessment standpoint, which is fine, but the reason people in suburbia may choose to carry isn't necessarily fear--it's preparedness in case the unthinkable happens.

Well if it's about "risk assessment", then no one would carry a pistol in low crime areas, concealed or otherwise.

I'm not speaking about high crime urban areas for instance. I'm speaking specifically about middle class/upper middle class suburbs where the risk is practically nonexistent.

On the subject of conceal carry, intellectually i can make peace with it for a variety of reasons both practical and psychological. There are women for instance who have been traumatized or are close to someone who has been traumatized. They carry a pistol for no other reason than that it gives them psychological comfort. I get that.

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