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Originally Posted by BYU 14
You can still get a CCR here, but when it is not required why bother. I was talking about this with my wife last night. I used to semi-mock people that toted their guns everywhere with them. Since last year I am one of them as I almost always carry my .380 because it is easy to conceal.
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I took the CCW class just because it's the formalized gun safety class, and I had no experience with weapons at the time. I have a semi-automatic handgun, but I don't carry it anywhere.
I shoot things in the desert with friends. I don't really feel I'm in danger at home, though, I do work in criminal law so maybe I should. I take it on trips to the rural parts of the state.
The more practical purpose that has dawned on me over the last few years is that I think there is a significantly greater than zero chance that the U.S. will go through some temporary or indefinite breakdown of society in our lifetimes - whether caused by climate change, economic collapse, political unrest/coup, terrorism, or a pandemic more deadly than COVID. If the grocery store trucks stop moving, it really wouldn't take very long for things to get ugly. (Edit: Not necessarily a Mad Max scenario, but just a drastic reduction of available resources creating localized situations were crime is many times more prevalent and severe).
If COVID was just twice as deadly, that might have brought us to that place. I'm not a full-on prepper or anything, but, I've thought more about being prepared for emergencies, and that includes at having a couple of reliable firearms and a good amount of ammo. And ammo was almost impossible to find for most of 2020, and what you could find was way more expensive than usual. Once there's an emergency, even a lower-level emergency, it's too late to stock up.
I'd happily comply with any gun control legislation regulating that ownership.