[Elspode]

I'm just now beginning the shopping process for an affordable, compact, concealable and easily-packed piece, and I would appreciate suggestions and/or links to a suitable daily carry weapon.

The thing about concealed carry is that people are doing it anyway...and they are largely the people that we non-criminals need to protect ourselves against. Laws making concealed-carry illegal only restrain the law-abiding from packing, not the bad guys.

I am not a gun nut. I am a long time resident of a city which I have watched become increasingly violent and crime-ridden over the past 30 years of my adulthood. I no longer feel safe in the formerly bucolic suburb in which I live. My children have been attacked and threatened, my sister was pistol whipped in her own front yard some years ago (the same house in which I now live), my posessions have been stolen from my property and my vehicle, my son's apartment was burglarized this past Spring (while he slept in his own bed!), and I have felt personally unsafe when walking the streets of both Grandview and Kansas City.

I will soon be packing, and I will take training to learn appropriate use (even though I've been shooting since I was young, I don't do it frequently enough to be comfortable about concealed carry and self-defense at present without some training).

It is a good thing for Missouri and for honest, law-abiding citizens in Missouri.