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JALLEN wrote:Anyone who has seen the Killeen shooting story involving Dr. Hupp should be carrying.

Thanks for bringing that up. I forgot to mention that in my original post. A member of my extended family had just dropped his wife off who worked at Luby's in Killeen just seconds before that went down. He had just pulled out of the parking lot and saw the truck crash into the building through his rear view mirror. He then turned around to go back and make sure everyone was alright, that was when the shots started. He ran into the business next door to see if anyone in there had a gun so he could go back and try and protect his wife. She who was pregnant at the time was not injured. There are also a few members of my church congregation who were present at Wedgwood when that all went down.

I know most of the events that I mentioned in my posts that there were a few degrees of separation between me and the event itself, still they hit close. Some folks need a slap in the face before they wake up. Others (me) need several.

I had talked about since the day the legislation had passed. I even discussed it with my wife and had her full support. But as time went by I always felt like I didn't have the time or money to spare. Besides I always had a gun in the house and that was all I needed right?

Despite the fact that a good friend of ours was assaulted and robbed right in front of her kids in a Sam's parking lot, and despite the fact that a couple of houses in our neighborhood had been broken into, I had one in the house and that was all I needed. Even after the MPA passed I still didn't carry one in my car because I didn't have a full understanding of the law and figured it wasn't worth the potential trouble. That came from a previous arrest for UCW.

Then it happened. One night, my wife, daughter, and myself were pulling into our garage in our van. I was horsing around with the kid as my wife exited the vehicle, when out of the corner of my eye I saw my wife raise her hand and yell Stop! A guy was walking up our driveway and about to enter the garage. She reached up and hit the button to shut the garage door. Still I was clueless as to what was going on. She told me and I bolted through the house and grabbed my pistol. It turned out to be some goof supposedly trying to sell newspapers (it was after dark). It was after everything was all over I looked at my wife and said "I know it turned out to be nothing this time, but if he had been up to something he would have had us. I'm getting my CHL".

As Samuel L Jackson said in pulp fiction "I had what alcoholics often refer to as a moment of clarity". I booked a class online and found this site a short time later. I know some of you probably were among the first in line to take the CHL course but I'm curious about other holdouts like myself. What finally pushed you to that point?