The Secret to Life is the Ability to Adapt to Change. I’ve been facing that challenge for the past few months. I’m voluntarily giving up an appendage and a mindset that has been part of me everyday, all day for 60+ years: I’ve stopped carrying a concealed firearm.
I’ve carried, or had close at hand, a firearm all my adult life – most of that time before licensing and constitutional-carry laws and rules. I’ve packed everywhere, including airplanes (pre-1970), banks, bars, places of worship, hospitals.… Though I’ve never had to shoot anyone, I wouldn’t be writing this today had I not had a firearm on a number of occasions as a civilian, cop or licensed private investigator. The decision to forgo this virtual appendage was not easy to make.
I didn’t stop because I was 83 years old. Old is not numerical. Old is defined as substantive losses of physical and/or mental competencies. The losses (reasons) were found in self-testing – the procedure and details, with photos, are fully described in my recently published treatise for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors: Self-Imposed Limits of Carrying Concealed Firearms I’m adapting – Life Don’t Get No Better.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
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