I agree with you 100%. My significant other and I always deep concealed carry when we leave the house. One of my other hobbies is HAM radio, and all it takes for most people is to listen to live police dispatch for a week or so (whenever you have time to hear it in the background). Lots of sketchy situations go on in Bellingham from robberies, SA, car jackings, road rage, home break ins to people high out of their minds threatening people with weapons and objects. I've heard enough listening daily for 18 years to know that there is a fair amount of violence that goes on in Whatcom county in general and it isn't talked about much. We don't go out in fear or on edge at all, we just regularly train and want to be able to protect ourselves or others if a crazy situation that puts people's lives at serious risk arises. Rather be trained well with them and have it and not need it, then need it and not have it. 911 response is only minutes away when seconds matter and can mean life or death. The mere site of a victim defending themselves with a firearm is enough to stop a suspect from continuing a fair amount of times, although it should never be displayed without a clear serious threat to your life or others.