[xrmusn]

When you deliberately and repeatedly cause confrontations with people, and you are regularly armed, everybody knows how that story is going to end eventually. It’s not necessarily per-meditated murder,
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Agreed...I carry ALL the time.
BUT

It has ‘made me’ or— at least in my old age— ‘turned me into’ a better driver, ‘nicer’ person, avoid confrontations with strangers or people I do not ‘know’ all that well while sticking to my ‘image’ as a sarcastic, sardonic personality.

My sarcasm tends to remain on the ironic side rather than confrontational.

Never was much of a fighter, usually avoided obvious situations and used the ‘gift of gab’ to keep the fighting to a bare minimum.

[discostu]

I was taught that when you’re carrying you need to be more calm, less confrontational, less concerned with minor slights. Because when you’re carrying a minor dispute has the ability to be the last thing anybody ever does and you really should avoid being the kind of person that kills somebody for texting in the movie theater, especially before the movie even started.