Every day someone wakes up and says to themselves "I'm going to buy a gun today." For the honest citizen who wants personal protection, a gun is a logical choice. This book covers the information that you don't learn at the gun store. It streamlines the rules of gun ownership and the factors of concern when carrying a gun in public. This book was written for the average person. It chronicles the physical, intellectual, and legal journey that I went through to obtain my own CCW, which will likely mirror your experience. This book contains the knowledge you need to know as a man or woman carrying a gun, regardless of the state you live in, and it highlights critical judgment skills necessary for you to stay alive. Protection is not guaranteed because you're carrying a gun. Should you find yourself in the unfortunate situation in which you need to use your gun, you will have already made decisions that determine the outcome of the event, even though you may be unaware of it. This book highlights those decisions so you can make them in advance, because the fraction of a second you have to respond to a lethal threat is inadequate to make so many critical decisions, in time for them to be effective.