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**Bud Helms** · September 1, 2001, 07:05 AM

I decided to be licensed to carry for a lot of obvious reasons, but one was to stand up and be counted. For some of us, by the time you are into your thirties, some gov't dept already has a file on you. So not licensing, so as not to "advertise" to the gov't is shutting the barn door after the horse is out. I recommend to everyone I know, with whom this subject can be rationally discussed, that they become licensed, whether they intend to actually carry or not. Imagine 40% of a state's population licensed to carry! Yeah, well, I said imagine.

You get the idea. Oh, yeah, ... and it's "cover" for those of us that actually do carry.

September 1, 2001, 07:05 AM	#20
Bud Helms Senior Member Join Date: December 31, 1999 Location: Middle Georgia, USA Posts: 13,198	I decided to be licensed to carry for a lot of obvious reasons, but one was to stand up and be counted. For some of us, by the time you are into your thirties, some gov't dept already has a file on you. So not licensing, so as not to "advertise" to the gov't is shutting the barn door after the horse is out. I recommend to everyone I know, with whom this subject can be rationally discussed, that they become licensed, whether they intend to actually carry or not. Imagine 40% of a state's population licensed to carry! Yeah, well, I said imagine. You get the idea. Oh, yeah, ... and it's "cover" for those of us that actually do carry.