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I am a real estate appraiser in the Dallas Fort Worth area. I am also a CHL Instructor.

I tell my students to carry everywhere or nowhere unless it is some sort of special circumstance.

But, I do have situations when I'm appraising that I don't carry. For me it's more of a risk assessment thing. If i'm in a high risk area, I carry all the time no questions asked. If I'm driving around Highland Park (a part of Dallas that is in the upper range of the socio-economic spectrum) appraising a house, logic would dictate that I'm in a pretty low risk area....speaking purely about precentages of risk.

I have a safe bolted to the floor of my truck that i lock it in should the need arise.

It will be very tricky to explain to a jury (in this hypothetical situation I"m about to create) why i had to should this bad guy that was attacking me inside his own house. I'm a 6'6" former football player, they could say. Why would you need a gun and why did you bring it into this man's house an shoot him with it?

bad news, but in the worst part of town....worth the risk.

It's a tricky world we live in, isn't it?