Well, yes and no. I carry, since some years ago my life was threatened and learned that the police couldn’t protect me. Nor did the law do anything about the threat, which was made multiple times to third parties but not directly to me…therefore, forget it, chum.
I rarely carry on my person, but when traveling alone I do, even into those “wrong” places, if I judge the likelihood of being caught there sufficiently low.
The issue is that I refuse to live in fear. I threaten nobody. If confronted I’ll grovel, run, retreat, beg, cry, and if that doesn’t defuse the threat then this 72 year old man…who can’t run and is too old to fight…will pull the weapon from it’s cage and shoot the sonofabitch. A .45 calibre, 230 grain bullet to somewhere will stop the perp, and may kill him. Tough. I doubt a jury in NC will give a damn, either.
