My wife and I both carry. We have floor safes in our cars since we work in Fed Buildings a good bit. I have taught my wife, mother and sister how to handle a gun (notice I didnt say shoot) and have to say ladies can hold their own at the range. Alabama is a great place to get a CC permit, and recropricates in at least 17 states, I dont understand why we cant carry in LA on an AL permit. Brenten you surely dont have a permit in KS do you? That is my old stomping ground and KS and MO are pretty much against CC. I think that the CC program is a crime defuser, do a little research on Kenesaw GA. I also relate it to a motorcycle event I attend frequently in South Dakota, you see some of the worst people we have to offer, but very few problems. I think it is because everyone assumes that there are some bad dudes there and just wont start anything. SL, doesnt your job put the power of death (or life) in your hands?