There's a forum I sometimes read called Democratic Underground. Several (literally thousands) of their members are rabidly anti Second Amendment ( As in they would support an outright ban on ALL civilian firearms ownership) and they routinely post that if you own a gun at all you live in fear.
It's interesting to me when I hear supposedly pro Second Amendment posters expressing the same sentiment (with only a difference in degree) here.
I am currently sitting on my couch in a pair of shorts and a T-shirt carrying an M&P9C in a Galco pancake holster on my belt and I barely notice it's there. It's not inconvenient and as I said earlier it's cheap insurance so why not.
I read a post by Massad Ayoob on a different forum in which he said there's this idea among gun owners that if you carry les than I do you're merely low hanging fruit for the next criminal you encounter but if you carry more than I do you're paranoid and "living in fear". and that is no where more evident than here
Yup.
That is because almost all people are pretty much the same.
Those who are more prepared than you are afraid, living in fear, paranoid, need to move, etc.
Those who are less prepared than you are sheep/sheeple, naive, merely a mugging away from turning conservative, etc.
Only those who choose a nearly identical level of preparedness to yourself can be considered reasonable. It is a VERY delicate balance. You must carry the same type, size, capacity, and caliber/cartridge of firearm the same places and times with the same frequency. No larger pistols, no spare magazines, no kevlar, no spare pistols, no carrying places the other person doesn't, no extra training, no first aid supplies in case somebody you know gets hurt in the gunfight...I coudl go on and on but those of us who have been around know it all...it's a really interesting and ironic world out there isn't it lol