I meant to bump this last night but I forgot.
Anyway, I had a little one-on-one time with him after most people left and basically asked those questions.
He said he feels there are better alternatives to "strapping a pistol to you". I asked him for an example and he said pepper spray and "a taser, you can get one of those, right?" He also said he was the one who reviews them and they've only "issued 2 since the 70's". He also gave some examples of the SO that has issued, and he was talking about the single female realtor in remote areas, etc. Even that was on the line of making it and said shouldn't have been issued. I told him those people have $$$. He shrugged it off. I also told him about my job and how I go to remote locations with possible illegal growing operations and he asked me if I lived in the city, I told him yes and I should take it up with my employer. Employer is too risk averse to do anything but I wouldn't be able to get the LTC because "general fear of crime" isn't "good cause".
Didn't get a chance to ask him much more because there were other people.
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