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"I also have several handguns which I very often carry concealed."

I'm curious - why?

I don't generally carry around stuff that I don't think I'll need, particularly if those things have to go on my person (e.g. in my pockets) rather than in a bag that I can put down when I'm stationary.

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It's good to have, "just in case". Carrying in comfort is an art form (aka "hard"). I live in an area where we have one law enforcement office, and law enforcement response times are ~20 minutes for violent crimes (I know this because I'm working on a data research project that produces statistics for local crimes, and it includes report vs response times).

Can you use it? How much training (approx hour count) is needed before you can really use the gun safely (i.e., shoot the bad guy instead of yourself or bystanders (which may be passive, inside their apartments, unaware of what's going on outside)).

That sounds like you're fantasizing about a power trip.

How do you square that with the fact that there are roughly 8 million concealed carry permit holders in America today?

Are they all on power trips?

http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/592552.pdf

permit to do something != doing it

However, I agree that's a LOT of people. Even if only half are holding at any given time, it's 1% of the population... Scary.

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