Why do you feel the need to carry a gun every day? Are you that hated? Are you that paranoid? Are you that scared? Do you live on the west side of Chicago? All of the above?
First, do I ask you why you feel the need to express your opinion?
I carry a gun because it's my right to do so. I'm very proficient with firearms. I go to the range at least twice a week. I've also trained in the use of deadly force and the concepts of escalation of force. I take the responsibility of carrying a firearm very, very seriously.
I'm not hated by anyone, so far as I know. Paranoid? Scared? Neither. And I live outside St. Augustine Florida.
I got my Florida CCW nine years ago. When I first got it, sometimes I carried, sometimes I didn't. A Sheriff buddy of mine commented that it didn't make much sense to have the CCW and not carry. I could see his point, I guess, and I started carrying regularly.
Six years ago my smokin' hot Puerto Rican girlfriend and I were confronted by three armed assailants. I drew my sidearm and they were undeterred. I shot two of them. One of them was arraigned from his hospital bed and is still in state prison. The other died on the sidewalk. The third assailant fled.
To this day, I am 100% convinced that my smokin' hot Puert Rican girlfriend and I would've been, if not killed, gravely harmed that night.
So, I will always carry a gun. I won't carry it because I'm scared or paranoid, I'll carry it for the simple fact that there are bad people in the world who will happily do bad things to good people for no other reason than they want to. That's simply unacceptable to me, so I've chosen to put myself in a position where, if a similar scenario were ever to happen to me, or even someone else, in the future I'm in a far better position to stop it.
I will always carry a gun. If guns are ever outlawed and banned, I will still carry a gun. I can promise you that. No one will
ever take away my right to defend myself...