This....but...I don't carry a small aresenal "when I expect to encounter a threat" (etc)... I carry a small arsenal ALWAYS, literally anywhere and everywhere I go. ..To me, it seems rather useless/futile/crazy/whatever to only carry when I "think I might need it"...etc . I mean, look, if history has shown me (us) and taught me (us, everyone) anything? It's that you simply never, ever EVER know when some lunatic/wingnut might randomly and suddenly attack you and/or your family, literally anywhere, anytime.....I carry if I'm simply walking or driving a couple of blocks in my own (very safe, very quiet and peaceful) neighborhood. And no, I'm not 'paranoid' nor cynical/afraid/etc etc...I simply don't wanna be, for example, out at a nice, quiet, peaceful breakfast or lunch or whatever at a "quiet" place and have some wingnut/whackjob/pissed off soul/lunatic ex-employee/angry husband thirty seconds removed from a bad fight with his wife/helpless victim (etc etc etc).
If you've never heard the story about Luby's in Texas, you should Google it, and that's only ONE incident in a long, long LONG list of random mass "executions". Then spend an hour or so searching out other mass shootings (the one in "quiet" Wakefield MA years back where some emplyoee who was a "strange loner/odd type guy" etc just went nuts one weekday morning and executed several....or the one at Bard College (etc etc etc).....Doesn't have to be a "mass shooting" either. Just one random asswipe or one angry f*ck or whatever, looking to declare it "Judgment Day" and start killing/shooting/stabbing/etc anyone and everyone unlucky enough to be nearby. Or simply just a random robbery or mugging or whatever where a victim just gives up the cash/wallet?etc and the attacker randomly DECIDES TO SHOOT OR STAB HIM/HER ANYWAYS... I carry literaly effin' everywhere. Even in church on Sunday. "The Lord (and Gaston Glock) Be With You..." (but lately, that awesome "tiny" little Sig P365 is in my pocket even if I'm walking witht eh wife and kids around the block for just a little exercise. I simply refuse to be a "tragic victim of a random...." etc)
Oh, and my wife and kids carry also, so if it's indeed "Judgment Day", then the wingnut really, really misjudged his random target(s).
Just sayin'