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You are right to examine the consequences before you start carrying and you can do some things to reduce the risks, like take good training, reading Ayoob, Bird and others on concealed carry, thinking through scenarios, practice etc. In the end however, in the confusion and tension of the moment, you may do something stupid, someone else might do something stupid, you might have an anti-gun LEO or Prosecuting attorney (they do exist in Texas), the atmosphere might be off, whatever and you may be faced with a prosecution, civil or criminal, that takes time and money even if you prevail or your employer may fire you, your friends may desert you, whatever.

Those are risks that all who carry take. If you are going to carry, you have to be prepared that you may kill or serious injure someone and that there may be some very nasty consequences even if you did everything right and the shooting was completely righteous. The risk just goes with the territory.