Honestly I am always with my family. I have a 2year old son and a daughter due in February. Although of course I’d love to avoid any violent encounter in their presence, justified or not. Me having the obligation to turn my back on an attacker and attempt to flee with my children does not sit right with me. I’m from the hood so my situational awareness when out is top tier if I pull my pistol I have a damn good reason. The thought of not being able to stand my ground WHILE my wife gets the kids to safety seems asinine to me.

A little story to accompany my opinion. I have a buddy who’s into real estate so he had his ccw for years. About a year and a half ago he goes to go check out a potential investment. He gets out of his car and walks toward the property. As he’s getting closer a guy comes out of an alleyway with a ski mask, hoodie on with his hands inside the hoodie pocket. Apparently the dude is walking straight towards him staring but also glancing at the surroundings. Now he tells me his antennas immediately go up because whose wouldnt. He says he didn’t want to unholster because he didn’t want to run the risk of appearing to be the aggressor to any potential witnesses and he wasn’t 100% percent sure if his intentions but in my mind I’m like fuck I’d probably come off the hip at that point. Not saying I would’ve started shooting but once I confirm a threat. Im willing to do whatever to make it back to my babies. You can feel when your being targeted if you pay attention. Anyway the dude ending of announcing a robbery my homie told me he complied with everything he said (don’t know how true that is, I wasn’t there) the guy ended up shooting my buddy 5 times. A women was near by heard the shots, saw him bleeding out and was able to provide aide until help arrived. He survived thankfully. Now I’m not saying SYG could have changed the outcome of that situation but to me DTR handicaps us a little too much.