Like many of you have revealed, I too am EXTREMELY happy and totally impressed by this article. I live in rural (I mean...really rural) northern NH where guns, both for hunting, sport, and security have just been a "way of life" for many many generations. I have never wanted to, nor ever would live in a city for many of the given reasons in the article. My uncle, however, lives in a suburb of Chicago that I've seen, in my lifetime, change from a pleasant farm community to a drug crazed city wide crack house with a skyrocketing homeless rate, rampant crime, decaying buildings, etc. DUE IN NO SMALL PART to gang problems, low incomes, lost family values, etc.
I can't imagine NOT CCW in a place like that as a rational law abiding citizen (my point being ANYWHERE these days). It seems as though now the criminals will have cause to fear in return for all the fear they have been spreading to the good people of this country.