Interesting...

If you are sufficiently scared of a home invasion that you would sleep with a gun under your pillow, you should be too afraid of driving to set foot in a car, yet I would bet that such is not the case.

All I can say to that is it's easy to sleep with a gun under my pillow. It would be much more difficult never to drive anywhere. My quality of life would drop way down. I do not, however, talk on the phone and drive, unless someone calls me, I will answer, but it will be quick and not a conversation (such as when my daughter called yesterday to say she didn't have soccer practice). I realize it's the same risk if I am listening to an audio book and changing CD's (distraction). Those commercials where the sister of a girl who died in a car accident while texting shows you the last words her sister ever read were a text from the girl...had too much of an effect on me to be that careless. And how can I teach my girls not to do what they see me doing?

Do look out for those trees! (I also carry my firearm every morning while walking the dogs, but again, it's easy, and if we were to encounter a bear or a coyote, I'd probably just fire it in the air to scare the animal(s) away...and hope my dogs would come home eventually). Mainly this time of year, when it's dark at 6:00 in the morning, is when I have it on me. I'm not really expecting to get kidnapped.