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People in business and some professions run into conflict fairly regularly, sometimes it almost seems like a way of life. Many years ago, a prominent lawyer answered his door one Sunday afternoon to be shot dead by a man he had been doing business with, apparently not entirely satisfactorily.

I ran a real estate investment operation, and also a foreclosure trustee, which handles the statutory procedure to complete a foreclosure. I would get death threats every now and then, and that's my "good cause" to have a CCW permit here. One of the pleasant developments of the real estate crisis has been the fall off in death threats, actually. I didn't have a single one in 2010, 2011 and none so far this year.

Having given this some fairly intense thought over many years, I suspect that it isn't the ones who call up and make the threat that you need to worry about. It is the ones who just show up out of the blue. So, one has to be constantly prepared.

I don't think it is that people are any crazier than in past decades. It's just that there are so many more of them.