You spent your hard-earned money to attend a concealed carry class, along with money for meals, travel, ammo and a whole lot more.
You bought the gear you need, including the proper gun, holster, belt, self-defense ammo, and a whole lot more.
You spent $153 to apply for your concealed carry license.
And now you leave your gun at home on those days when you don’t think you’ll need it for fill-in-the-blank reason.
You’re not alone. According to one gun group’s survey, barely 50% of hard-core gun owner respondents said they carried either constantly or every time they leave the house.
Our advice: Carry your darn gun!
Why? Here’s an example:
Lancaster, Ohio (10TV) – It happened along a walking path in Lancaster.
Dinah Burns is licensed to carry a concealed gun, but she’d only recently started taking her weapon while walking her dog.
Based on what happened, it looks like she’ll make a point of carrying from now on.
“I think if they’d gotten any closer, I probably would have fired,” said Burns.
Here’s a woman walking her dog on a footpath near a school. Two guys appear out of the woods and tell her that she’s coming with them. Do you think they were going to take her for a romantic steak dinner?
Well, they might have had “romance” on the mind in a twisted sort of manner but they weren’t going to take her out to dinner.
She pulled her gun and the two would-be rapists decided it would be best to scram.
This woman’s decision to carry her gun while doing the routine saved her from getting raped or maybe even killed.
I remember one day back in pre-concealed carry days that I consciously left my fannypack at home. I had forgotten it and decided, “Eh, I’m just going to breakfast”. A half-hour later, I’m chasing a purse snatcher for almost a mile through west Champaign and I surely am glad he wasn’t armed.
Today, I wear a comfortable holster rig, a modest-sized gun, and a pair of reloads on a sturdy, reinforced nylon belt. Every. Day.
I say it’s “comfortable” as in I forget I’m wearing it and don’t even bother taking it off when I get home because, well, I don’t think about it.
On those days when I think, “Eh, I don’t need the gun”, I remind myself of the thousands of hours I’ve spent promoting right to carry and bringing concealed carry to Illinois. Carrying is the least I can do, as it would be a darn shame to get killed by some hoodlum in a stickup because I left my gun at home thinking it was too much of an inconvenience to put it on.
It’s also the least you can do as you no doubt have people who love you and who are depending upon you and counting on you to be around tomorrow and the next day.
Honor their love.
Carry your gun.
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