Concealed Carry – Because You Can’t Control When Crazy Will Happen [Contest Entry]

By Dan Zimmerman

By Mitch from DFW

My wife and I both grew up in Canada. As such, we always had a strange curiosity with America’s embrace of firearms. Canadians are inculcated by our school system from an early age that America is full of “gun nuts” and you’ll just get shot walking in broad daylight for no apparent reason. I was always skeptical of said shibboleth, as I viewed the Second Amendment as a check on an overreaching government. When we moved to the US fourteen years ago, we first settled in Detroit. We saw firsthand that owning a firearm isn’t such a bad idea. That being said, as we were on visas at the time, we couldn’t own handguns. It was something we’d think about down the road . . .

Several years later, events would happen that ensured that once we got our permanent residency status, and we would become firearm owners. These events happened in Charlotte, North Carolina.

First, my wife was deliberately driven off the road in an apparent gang initiation. The police told us as much, but then advised her not to pursue the issue as being a witness, because the gangs would have access to our name and assess. …Read the Rest

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