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Hi Bubba,

When it comes to asking questions --- one I always ask myself when I'm sitting on the fence about something, is -> "Will I regret not doing (--- fill in the blank ---)"? In this case, would she regret not having a CHL when sometime down the road she might have a turn of events when she would need to be legally carrying in order to protect herself?

It is not yet not an automatic "habit" for me to grab a ccw when I leave the house to run errands. Sometimes I think, "I don't need it, I'm just running to Walmart", or "I'm just going to go get a tank of gas", or "I'm just going to walk the dog".

And then I remember reading the news about so many more violent crimes occurring during what we consider every day events - like all the recent robberies in shopping mall parking lots and attempted car jackings. Today at one of the local golf courses, men were robbed at gunpoint on one of the greens. A few weeks ago a woman in our area held her dr and some other patients hostage in the Dr's office.

All of these are places we all go to on a routine basis and used to think nothing of it. BUT NOW WE HAVE TO START THINKING of the things that COULD HAPPEN and hopefully be prepared to react if they do.

I have internal arguements with myself all the time. When I find myself thinking "I don't need it" or "I don't need to take the time to get it"; then I weigh that against thinking what I would feel if didn't have it but needed it... and my choice is made.

Those days I used think, "I'm just running to the grocery store", "I'm just going to fill up the gas tank", "I'm just going to the movies" or "We're just going to the mall" ... and running out the house unprepared are over.

Ask your wife to join us here as moodyAmber suggested, the womanandguns forum if she wants more of a woman's group to talk things over with.