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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I guess. I just think that in most urban areas, people just don't carry guns.

I live in a city that has 20 million people. I'm friends with more than 15 people in my small neighborhood and no one I know owns a gun. No one hunts. Nothing. As a matter of fact, no one that I've ever known (outside of a SWAT cop who's married to friend of my wife) owns a gun.

I know it's quite different in the midwest (having grown up and lived there until age 27) but in larger urban areas, hunting is not a past time. Therefore, few own guns.

Personally, I feel uncomfortable when I see people wearing guns (usually Brinks Truck drivers). I'd really feel uncomfortable if every time I went to the grocery store or to Baja Fresh or a bar, I saw someone with a piece strapped to their chest.

VERY uncomfortable.

Dane, It's been my personal experience that dealing with the male gender under the age of 30 on his turf in.. how shall I phrase this.. Not quite as refined neighborhoods, and stressing the hood part.. in various cities and towns in the midwest and southwest it's been my experience that upwards of 80 to 90% are carrying weapons.
Of course my job called for me to be armed as well.