Sadly,, security is always an illusion of odds... Some places your odds are better, but never 100%...
Kinda like getting struck by lightning... Even in the safest country in the world, you can still get struck by lightning. Do you live in fear?
No.. just like you buy insurance on your house, your car, and dont walk around in the rain with a long metal objects (unless your a golfer), you have to make informed decisions for life. Do you get a flu shot? Do you carry a spare tire? Do you jog at night in the middle of the expressway?
Again, sadly ligthning still strikes, People still drive drunk, Folks still get raped and killed every day. And in the U.S., many more people are murdered each year than are struck by lightning. And not one of those folks got up that morning and planned to die.
No one can tell you where to draw the line, but intelligent folks certainly manage their risks.
Now on the otherside. Almost NO licensed gun owners end up being murderers or felons. Stastistics show just the opposite, That licensed gun owners are very responsible and dont cause trouble. Statistics show that these folks are among the most well behaved group out there. So becoming one is not a bad thing and being near one is actually a good thing in spite of what the press would let you believe. And although there is probably not a stastistic to show it, I would believe that very few legally armed folks are robbed or killed, but we dont track that model very well. Cops or our policemen have to confront bad folks and go after them so they continuously put themselves in harms way and higher risk where conceal weapon folks tend to avoid confratations, we just move on.
I wont tell you how I know this.
Now if you carry every day.. first off you now responsible for keeping the weapon out of harms way.. That a big problem especially if you leave it in the vehicle.. Then there is the size.. If you carry personally, you will dump the 1911s, and all the bigger junk in favor of a small, light, very safe and rugged..
Controversy again.. what do you carry. Revolvers are very very very safe, but bulky. Glock 9mm is nice, light, rugged, and can be very safe or very bad. It has the safety built into the trigger. So it absolutly will not fire unless you squeeze the trigger.
However.. serveral folks have shot themselves because they "pull it out" with the finger on the trigger.
So thats the disadvantage, when you pull it out, if the trigger gets pulled, bumped, hung up, caught, squeezed, snagged, or what ever..
So keep all the above in mind. small is better for long term carry. Safety is paramount, and now you are responsible 24 hours aday for where the gun is kept. Any gun will make a bad guy back off and think twice. And its very hard for a bad guy to carry out a plan if bullets are coming back at him. Big guns are for young men and idiots with small penises's to carry. Same reason you dont drive a simi truck to school when a car will do.
38special and 9mm will not go through six walls and kill someone a half mile away when you miss. Thats why they were the original police loads. And I personally perfer them as I can shoot accurately, no kick, no blink, no flinch, no jumping. If I'm gonna have to shoot, I really want to hit the bad guy and not the kids four rooms down. Being accurate and able to put several quick shots in target is a must.
This post was edited by sotxbill at 13:36:35 01/03/13 2 times.
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