[LakeCleElum]

Bill Cosby once had a video clip that stated a very good reason to NOT CARRY. His target audience was mainly toward a younger, maybe less affluent crowd, but I think it is very good advice:

As he put it: If in a transient minute of anger, you fire off a shot, you can never take it back, and the result can change your life forever!!!

This really made me stop and think. I had carried a gun for many years.

How many times was I a little extra brave if someone had crossed my path. Just knowing I had a gun on me made me a little more willing to stand up and and take any crap from someone that had pissed me off?

I stopped carrying for a few years and notice a change in my whole attitude. If someone cut me off in traffic, flipped me the finger, or whatever, I was more willing to "let it go".....That may be a good thing in the end.

I look at a story that has been in the press lately. Some Seattle PD cops in a bar in Sturgis when some Hells Angles come in to give them a hard time. A HA gets shot and 2 SPD officers get charged with crimes. I know one of the two very well. If he had not had a gun on him in that bar, he probably would have walked away and not be looking over his shoulder every day now, waiting for the HA that has an order out to kill him......Just food for thought...