Asymmetric losses. The likelihood of you ever needing that weapon for shootout self defense is very low. The odds of you getting caught with it and getting mandatory minimum prison time as a slave for the state are orders of magnitude greater than odds of it saving your life.
My situational awareness and ability use my body, blade and vehicle as a weapon are more than sufficient for me to feel confident moving around in the world.
To each their own. I am an old man living in a world of exponentially increasing factors of instability. I have never been body searched in decades of high risk associations with law enforcement. Manage your own risks, for me, carrying is worth the potential consequence. Maybe for you, it isn’t. C’est la vie, mate!
Fully agree and I was actually going to say the same. I respect you for doing it and have absolutely no issue with your choices. The world is slightly safer for it too.
If you knew me you’d know I am a person who doesn’t ask permission and doesn’t respect many establishment decrees. But as a person who is doing other things that increase my risk of being searched it’s a compounding factor I’m not willing to expose myself to.
