Could you expand on those circumstances a bit?
I am not against personal gun ownership (other than automatic weapons), but I guess I am more like Theo in personal experience. In my roughly 40 years of adulthood I have never owned a gun or ever been in a situation where I really thought I needed one. And I haven't lived a sheltered life....have lived in Florida, 10 years in Los Angeles and now Tennessee and traveled quite a lot. Been to hundreds of sporting events, hundreds of bars, many times to Vegas, Reno, Tahoe, NYC, New Orleans, etc and have done my share of drinking and carousing. However, I do try to avoid trouble. But I am curios as to the circumstance that would require somebody to have the need to draw a weapon so often. Is it in the line of duty?