Let's see, I carry a spare tire in my car(fun fact: I've never had a flat, not skill, luck)and a first aid kit(used 3 times to help other people). I keep 5 days of food and water in a bug out bag, along with a stove, lantern, radio and other hurricane stuff. I carry a knife, and I use it everyday. I've even memorized the phone number for 911, and I carry a gun, sometimes, not everywhere I go that's for damn sure. I am prepared for a lot of different shit, and that's all. This "cognitive dissonance" crap is getting old. Your studies and facts are old, and I'm not saying there are new studies and facts to refute them, I'm saying they have been force fed to me for a long time and I have rejected them as having little or no weight in my decision to own and carry firearms. There is no dissonance in my cognition, and I seriously doubt you are qualified to diagnose something like that over the Internets. Here's yer flail back
You sound like a prepared and squared away individual. Nice!