Mainsail
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You prefer that the criminals believe you're unarmed?I'm another one that carries concealed when in a public environment. I have no desire to call attention to myself, or alert someone with criminal intentions that I'm armed.
When we carry concealed we look identical to the folks that are unarmed.
For the majority of bad folks with bad intent, appearing unarmed IS calling attention to yourself. You may not be the easy target they originally thought you were once you go to guns, but when they're interviewing potential victims you will stand out as an easy target.
I don't want to ever need to go to guns, I don't want to surprise the bad folks, I don't want to shoot anyone, and I don't want the legal/civil nightmare that goes along with those things. Even if it's indisputable that you were in the right, life as you presently know it is over for some indeterminate time.
Now, IF I believed the greater threat was the tiny population of bad folks desperate enough to attack an obviously armed person, then yeah I'd be making sure I'm concealed, however, the empirical evidence available says those people are very few and far between.
I guess it depends on what one considers a greater threat; the tiny percent of gun-grab bad guys, or the huge majority of everyday criminals.
Every day, every hour, somewhere in the world someone is getting violently attacked, and 100% of them look like any one of us carrying concealed; they look unarmed.
CC and OC are just two sides of the same coin. The option of playing both sides of that coin is more important than anything else.
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