On Zimmy's statement to the court

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Neither am I, but I do not live in a state where my chances

that a perfect stranger is packing is actually higher than being hit by lightning. No, you cannot make the argument you made given the number of CCWs issued in YOUR STATE.

Nor do I intend to move to one either. And those stories can be countered by situations like George Zimmernan, who was mind you a law abiding citizen, and who WOULD HAVE LOST HIS CCW in MY STATE, the first time he got a restraining order.

That IS rational.

But really, these situations are extremely rare as in so rare, that indeed lighting does come to mind.

Now once again, if you have had a real threat to your life, by all means. If not, you really do not need a CCW... and in a MORE RATIONAL SOCIETY where the NRA did not have the pull it has, you would not. Nor would you feel you need to pack.

Oh and I am willing to bet I have used my first aid skills far more often than you have your side arm... and in two cases it may have saved somebody's life, the fact that I knew something about that. One was CPR, the other was the Heimlich maneuver...

I consider EMT or First Aid training far more valuable. Sorry if that bugs you.

And yes my dear, I was told by an FBI agent that he highly recommended I did get a gun, training and a CCW due to some of the real life characters I did transport... as in they had actionable intelligence that this may be advisable.

I chose to take my chances... and I thanked the agents for their very real, as in very real concerns. Perhaps this is the case since I KNOW for real what bullets do to people when entering a body at high rates of speed... and cavitation and follow through are NOT theory. Hell, we have guns these days... and I am the worst shot you could ever meet. We concluded it is because of that little factoid. Yup, this is a round target, not even a humanoid form... and I still cannot bring myself to do it.

By the way that is the kind of situation where a CCW makes sense, as long as that threat is actionable, not a second after.