I have a CCW and never once wanted to shoot anyone. My pistol is like seatbelts in a car or a helmet for a motorcycle: You hope you never need it but you will thank God if you do need it.
I’d rather have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
You are so right!! Twice, at the moment I held a brand new gun in my hands, I turned and softly made a blessing upon the gun, “I pray GOD you are never NEEDED.”
If my prayers are answered, I will consider it the BEST money I ever “wasted.”
Nobody wants to. Having to shoot someone is only the beginning of the ordeal. Being temporarily arrested and disarmed. Not getting your gun back for years, and possibly in damaged condition. People who were not there armchair quaterbacking your decisions with the luxury of not facing possible death. Civil suits from the thug or their family. Tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.