Only after having been licensed for two years did my wife decide to carry regularly. I have carried every day since getting my license. That works best for me. Right now, my pistol is secured in my vehicle in the parking lot at my work because of company policy. When not at work, it is on my hip or readily at hand. For those rare cases when I do not have my pistol, I have done my risk analysis and put controls in place to reduce the risk to what I have determined is a manageable level.
For myself, I feel that having made the decision that a pistol is the best tool with which to defend myself and those for whom I am responsible, I do not want to be in a position in which I need that tool and do not have it.
For instance, when I visit my mother in the hospital this afternoon, I will leave my pistol secured in my vehicle. There are on-duty police at the hospital and I will still have my knife. Not ideal, but it is manageable ... until my Kel-Tec Sub-2000 arrives.
