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In my case, I thought about getting my CHL for quite some time but always put it off... mainly because of the expense involved. You see, my wife has Multiple Sclerosis and her medical needs, in addition to the normal household expenses, didn't leave much slack in the budget for what I considered to be an unnecessary expense.

That all changed one June day in 2006. The short version of the story is that an irate employee went off the deep end and shot one of my co-workers in a fit of rage. If the shooting had taken place two minutes earlier I also would have been in that office and I could very well have been a victim also.

Needless to say, that was all it took to finally convince me that I couldn't risk being unable to defend myself any longer. I'll never be without a CHL again.