My self, I don't want anybody to know I'm armed, not even suspect it. I loose the advantage and risk being blind-sided just to get at the gun, if one suspects I have one. So I'm taking the law to mean "Total Concealment" to where one does not even suspect a gun is there. No printing, no holster sounds, no gun oil smell, no open coat/shirt flash, no belt clips showing while ones shirt is tucked in and so on. Anything that may cause undue alarm of others or could cause an attacker to try and see if they can get at what they think may be a gun, by a blind side attack. Total conceal to me allows others to go about their day not worried about it, being they don't know and one shows no signs in any way that its there. It's the art of concealment. But when a situation comes up and it's needed concealment is out the window.
I have never been in a situation where I needed to use deadly force, and hope I never am, but the days are changing and I have had things happen here that could have gone bad if I had walked out into it, unarmed. I am feeling less and less safe even in my home and with police response times on a Crime already in progress code 3 lights call at around 10 to 15 minutes in my area. I don't have a choice, but to self protect and conceal so I can just take out the trash over the properity line to the street, and feel safer being armed legally.
It's a sad day when one has to pack just to feel safe taking out the trash..
