[sneak]

Anyone who carries concealed on a regular basis thinks about things like this all the time.

Carrying a firearm makes you think ten steps ahead to avoid dangerous situations, because suddenly, any dangerous situation you may find yourself in is now a dangerous situation with a gun involved.

I've skipped going places when I was carrying (places that I would have gone to, unafraid, unarmed) because of the _potential_ that I would find myself in danger and have to do something I didn't want to do.

[tiredofcareer]

At the risk of derailing this thread, why the hell do you carry, then? If you don't want to have to fire your weapon, what the hell did you buy it for?

This rubs the wrong way when most people that carry concealed tell me "I do it to protect myself". Well, no shit, Sherlock, that means you're going to have to discharge the weapon if you're in danger. And a sufficiently likely conclusion involves someone getting the drop on you and/or taking your weapon, anyway.

[sneak]

> Well, no shit, Sherlock, that means you're going to have to discharge the weapon if you're in danger.

Some of us are sufficiently averse to being forced to kill people that we will go to great lengths to avoid potential danger.