However, you can’t just strap on a gun and walk out the door, you need training to use this tool safely, appropriately, and effectively,

Things can then get worse, though, as you could be dragged through potentially months of court proceedings.

There are various groups–one being the NRA–which say that they offer you a policy which will offer you protection in the case you have to use your handgun or rifle in self defense, and they will provide things like an on call lawyer, bail, a trial lawyer, and your legal defense costs up to a certain amount–which could add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

However, I’ve seen reports that some companies do not really provide the protections they claim to.

Thus, for instance, one company’s contract’s fine print says that they will not pay for any of your legal defense costs if your are indicted, and, of course, you could well be indicted by some ambitious prosecutor eager to add another scalp to his belt.

So, while I think that getting such a policy is a good thing, especially if you are actively carrying every day, you have to very carefully evaluate and choose which policy to pick.

There is a reason that the Federal government does not collect statistics on certain things—hot button issues the answers to which it just doesn’t want to know–or want you to know–for it fears such statistics might contradict the “narrative” it has constructed about such issues.

The number of times someone with a lawfully carried handgun has prevented or stopped a crime is one such statistic.

Moreover, are there good, comprehensive statistics comparing state’s pre and post Constitutional carry law crime rates–statistics which might refute the idea of Constitutional carry states supposedly turning into the'”wild west,” with rivers of blood flowing in the streets?

I don’t know of any.

I can’t wait for Godiva versus Rapunzel to make it to the big screen.

Mason Williams played every instrument on that song.

Wait, but it DOES matter!!

…Well, maybe it SHOULD matter…but most everyone’s playing by Palestinian Rules…
…You know…:
Free and fair–and TRANSPARENT—elections…
Transitory inflation…
Covid emerged from nature…and EVERYONE needs to be vaccinated and masked…since there’s NO OTHER WAY to protect against it.
Secure borders…
DEI…
Multiple genders…
BLM…
Antifa’s just an idea…
The Afghan withdrawal was a tremendous success…
Our Democracy(TM)…
Islamophobia…
Parents are terrorists…
Global Warming…
White Supremacism is America’s most deady enemy (after Global Warming, that is)…
EVs are the future…
Gotta love the enthusiasm of those pro-Hamas protesters…
Etc., ad nauseum…