Hi guise. Please give advice. I posted this in another thread but think this thread would be more relevant.
I'm turning 21 (legal age for handgun purchase) in a few months and have been considering purchasing a handgun for personal defense, but I'm torn. It isn't manufacturers and the stupid NRA that make me want one, it's incidents like
this. I'm worried that some idiot will pull a gun on me on the road or something (call me paranoid if you want). I'm not interested in being a hero, but as someone who often has deep thoughts about life and wasted life around the world (not only due to guns), I'm not interested in getting shot.
The conflict within is whether I think I can trust myself with a handgun. Will I get heated enough to pull a gun on someone during a conflict when they're not an imminent danger? Will I become a part of
those statistics, like suicide, family homicide, accidental discharge injury, etc? Where would I carry? With CHL, I could carry on campus, but I'm not interested in that. Would handgun stay in car only?
Will the handgun do more harm than good? Basically that's where I'm at.
Also, I have shot guns before, including automatic AK47, but I'm only interested in purchasing one handgun. Nothing else. I was thinking a somewhat compact Glock or Sig Sauer, nothing too small though.