To show your friends who think they are safe carrying a gun.

[Rorey]

16. Even some people who are familiar and comfortable

probably shouldn't be carrying. Note I did say "some".

I'm not doubting your ability. I think there are a whole lot of gun owners who think they're capable, but they're not. Case in point: my husband. He doesn't practice. He doesn't maintain his guns. He doesn't have the quick reaction time or the good vision he had when he was younger, and won't accept those pitfalls of getting older. Plus, most important, he seems to be losing more and more common sense with each passing day.

We got an example of his lack of common sense a couple of months ago. He was sitting in his chair watching the idiot box and noticed four police cars outside. We live on a dead end street which ends in a big circle and our house kind of towers over the circle so we get a very good view of everything. We immediately ran back the security footage so we could see what was going on and saw that someone had come through a gate across the circle and then jumped over a fence into our immediate next door neighbor's yard. So my husband ran and got his gun, which he hasn't shot in all of the years that I've known him (several decades!) and went running into our back yard. I figured for sure the day was going to end very badly. Fortunately the guy wasn't in our backyard. I think he had run through because of where he ended up, but had already gone on to another yard. My husband heard some yelling in another yard and then saw another neighbor whack the guy who was running from the police with a board. Hard. The guy got up and kept running. The police got him shortly thereafter. It was quite exciting seeing several of our officers running along the cedar fences. I was impressed with their ability.

Husband and I had a good talk after the adventure. I told him that if he had decided to use his gun we would have no doubt spent our life's savings on his lawyer's fees. He should have stayed in the house with me.