My boss has a concealed carry permit, a couple of different sidearms, and different holsters to allow him to carry concealed depending on what he’s wearing that day. He’s a general contractor. He works in Gary, Indiana, which has had the distinction of being the “Murder Capital” on some years. He is willing to and does work in some very rough neighborhoods where contractors have been robbed by armed assailants and sometimes shot. He does not always carry a gun on him, but there are some places he won’t go without it.
Yes, he has used his gun against some trying to rob/harm him. So far, every such incident has been judged to be self-defense by the the courts (not that there are many such incidents.)
The most recent time someone attempted to rob him he did not have his gun on him, it was packed in a case under the front seat of his truck. Instead, when the two men opened the door of his truck, reached in and grabbed him, and tried to drag him out by his arm and shirt the boss reached for the piece of steel pipe on the passenger side seat and brought it down on top of the skull of the nearer of the two men. That guy fell down and stopped moving (he was not dead, just severely injured) and the other one ran away - abandoning their getaway car with three kids in the back seat. (When the cops showed up they called some sort of social agency to come get the kids as they obviously could not stay out there all night in a car).
This was all caught on the gas station’s video camera, by the way.
The local cops, knowing the boss man had a gun, asked him why he hadn’t shot the guys. Well, the pipe was closer, and anyhow, boss man didn’t want to shoot someone in the head in front of three kids. Especially since he did have some notion those kids might belong to one of his two assailants (they did).
Anyhow - that’s why he’s armed. Concealed carry is so no one ever need know he’s armed or be bothered by seeing a gun… unless they are stupid enough to try to cause him bodily harm.
Does that help any or not?
