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I was born an Anti.

My folks are both pretty anti-gun.

I started my conversion to pro-gundom about 15 years ago, when a coworker of mine invited me to go shooting with him. Stereotypically, I went, expecting to see a bunch of dumb rednecks go YEE HAW and whatnot, but I was very shocked to see people of all ages, sizes, and "social types" shooting.

After that, I began to see the wrongheadedness in the anti-gun position. I got my CWP while living in Arizona, but never really carried much.

It really didn't hit me, though, till I met my fianceé.

We used to live in California. She had a few runins with some unsaveory characters. I might have posted about them before. Basically, she was followed home from work, called the cops and was told they couldn't help her. She came home late one night while I was travelling, and saw a van parked next to the walkway into our apartment. she called the police, who told her, "we'll send someone whenever we can, within 2-3 hours probably."

Well, being a guy, I never worried about these things, but I began to see that in fact we were responsible for our own safety, and I needed to take steps to protect her and me.

So I got my CHL in Texas, and began carrying daily. I still carry to this day.