Quote from Lucrum:
Both.
The odds are very slim I'll ever actually need it, but then if and when I do need it it's too late to apply for a permit and purchase a weapon. When you only have seconds to protect/defend yourself, the police are only minutes away.
Within weeks of me getting my carry permit there was a restaurant shooting in Las Vegas. Hardly the first one I've heard of. A guy walks in and just starts shooting, three ended up dead. Me personally I'd rather be able to or die trying to defend me and mine than sit hiding under the table waiting for some ass hole to walk up and and shoot me. There are many many instances where crimes are thwarted by gun carrying citizens. You just almost never hear of them because the leftist media is fervently anti-gun.