I threw out Concealed or I Suppose Open Carry and Social Interactions/ Datingjust to see if you all came up with any special gems or blind flashes of the obvious. My take is as follows. I believe in being armed unless:-Carrying a gun is a felony (or I suppose a maxed out gross misdemeanor which is basically the same). Not asked to leave or a ticket but a serious crime. -I am unable to make life and death decisions due to the medicinal or recreational substances consumed or some medical condition that inhibits judgement. -Carrying a gun is physically prohibitive due to clothing and activities being done such as swimming. There are invariably some occasions where being even somewhat visibly (yes a Glock 19 under a t shirt on a normal sized person prints some) armed is not desirable. So where does that leave me? If I want to be armed but do not want it to be visible a smaller gun is often the answer. Meister hit the nail on the head that a deep concealment hand gun like my Ruger LCP buys a lot of options. Any normal male attire can hide that little gun. A gun nobody can see is a gun that is not going to cause any sort of issues. Granted it is not optimally armed in my book (even as handguns go) but I only go to to polite social events at places where the risk is pretty low.