The knowledge gained about use of force issues is worth the money spent on the class. Remember the bad guy chooses who, where, and when.dfws4 wrote:...; I'm having second thoughts now on if I want to spend the money to proceed. Have any of you gone through the same back-and-forth? .....Is it worth the money if I'm not going to carry that often?.....
That means they just have to see you,(or girlfriend, wife, elderly mother, teenager with driver's license) & follow to where the good stuff is kept. If they are property criminals, they are interested in your stuff, but they may want to get rid of witnesses. If they are criminals that are interested in taking people, once they have the privacy they are comfortable with, they are only limited by their imagination.
Tom GIvens tells a story about catching a theif in a very nice neighborhood ( $500K homes). Tom asks, what are you doing in this neighborhood. BG says, "Fool, there ain't nothing worth stealing where I live."