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Well, I usually carry one and keep another in the car. My wife doesn't have a CHL yet, and she knows exactly where I keep that second gun. With our long driveway, we sometimes find cars parked, blocking the driveway, out of sight of the house. That creates a situation where we can risk reversing the whole way back to the house, or light it up with high-beams and spotlight, call the sheriff and wait to see what happens. If we're both in the car, she grabs the extra gun and puts it on her lap under her purse. The ones that don't just take off right away always seem to have the same story; looking for a friend's house (by sitting several yards off the paved road through a (open, but obvious) gate with the car off, apparently a new search technique) and either can't remember the name or give a name we don't recognize. (low population density out here; we may not know all of the people on the county road, but the odds of naming one we don't know are a bit on the slim side) Of course, the sheriff gets all the details we can gather either way, and I generally put the same info in my pocket notepad and try to get a photo or two in case they happen to be in the area again later.

While I'd rather she not empty a high-capacity 9mm directly in front of my face in the confines of a Mazda Protege, I can think of plenty of ways those could have gone bad that would make hearing loss and flash burns quite a bit better than the alternative. After the most recent driveway encounter I got to thinking about that, and told her that she should count my shots and not engage anything on my side of the car until my .357 is empty or I'm disabled.