I can't explain why I don't feel threatened, I just don't.
Ya know Dunaruna, I also live (and always have lived) in a fairly secure fairly low crime area, and even though I have a corncealed carry permit, I very rarely pack. I have always been relatively fearless, (and sometimes have had to get spanked for that stand yer ground attitude I tend to have). Maybe it's a knowledge that I can deal with what ever comes my way that I tend to approach life with that also makes me a proud non victim Cornservative. I have had to ponder deadly force twice in my life that if I was not prepared would have been costly, (glad I had the gun, and nothing happend because I had it) IMHO.
One thing I don't understand though, why would you live in a place that is threatening to you and your family?
RR island has been in my family, (I now own it with my brother), since the late 1950's. A small agricultural based town north of Seattle not far from RR island that I frequently travel to has had a growing "Latio gang" problem over the last ten years or so, (largely a cornsequence of the very Liberal state I live in making it easy for illegals to get drivers licences and other legal ID docs). BTW: police are not allowed to raise immigration status when they stop people here in this very Liberal state either. I've previously stated that Libs and Dems intentionally set us up to fail so they can gain more power fixin' the problems their policies have caused, and this is a perfect example.
So I guess I should sell my family's beautifull property and move to Montana n' hide, where an axe murderer could pay my unarmed family a visit? Not my style. I've never run from other things, and I'm to old to learn to run now. I've lived me life sucessfully with a "prepare for the worst n' hope for the best" attitude and plan to corntinue that trend 'till I bite the dust.
Once you have had two trouble saving experiences where a firearm made trouble unwise in the eyes of the bad guys I was confronting, (as I have personnaly had), it cornvinces me to always have an "equalizing" option available, (safely stored and relatively accessable). It will not save me or my loved ones from someone who pulls out a gun and shoots me, (or lays in wait to get the drop on me), but if I have a little warning n' time to react, I will be a real problem for anyone who wants to punch my ticket or the tickets of my loved ones.
(I don't mean you personally, I mean 'you' in a general sense)
