I don't mean Central Park or parts of New Jersey, I mean being out in the woods in the mountains of West Virginia camping or something similar. I did, pre-mobile phones and one thing you realize rather quickly is that you are 100% responsible for your own safety out there. No phones, no lights, no paved roads, no bystanders, just nature. If someone runs up on you out there, people may never find out what happened to you. Fall and break your leg and you better walk out the woods through the pain because ain't no ambulance coming.

Anyway, out there a sidearm is a good idea if you're alone 12 miles from the nearest town and there's three random dudes walking towards you. Just saying that there are quite a few instances where carrying a gun makes sense.